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How did the ancients cook before the advent of the pot?

? With the rapid development of society, people's food has become more and more diverse, but stir-frying is undoubtedly the most part of it. This pot is essential. Although nowadays there is food that does not use a big pot. But absolutely most of the food need pot to cook. ?

The iron pot in the history of our country, the existence of almost a thousand years. So in the old days when there were no iron pots, how did people solve the problem of dealing with food. People will use fire for almost a million years, so how did people cook in the past.

? In the beginning of the Paleolithic era, there was no cooking utensils. Most of the food is directly inserted into a stick, placed on top of the fire began to roast. It is similar to our present barbecue. But in ancient times, this kind of? Barbecue? It is not our simple and very delicious. They were just the most primitive way of handling food.

According to legend, in the beginning, it was because people tasted the animals struck by lightning, and realized that the food was so delicious. Only later did humans gradually learn to use fire to process food.

This is the first time that we have seen this.

Later to the new era of time, people after a long time of evolution and development, has mastered the production of cooking utensils. Also learned to cook things. People never knew how good they were until they pushed themselves to put a handful. People in those days began to use slate handles. At the beginning of the use of flat straight slate, to the back found that the use of the kind of concave kind of do out of the taste better. Gradually they learned to use their own li. This is a big jar. There are three legs at the bottom, and the top can be used to boil water and cook things.

? Slowly people began to use other tools, and slowly it was transformed into a pot, and the diversity of food began.