When Did Human firST cooK fooD n wHy?

Human probably used fire for warmth and protection before anyone ever thought of cooking. Tribes may have kept campfires through the night and if you leave that deer carcass close to the embers to protect it from hyenas,you might wake up to find the scorched end is much easier to chew. It isn't clear exactly when the 1st occurred ,but it was at least 100,000 years ago.

Cooking generally increase the availability of nutrients in food, and tribes that cooked would have had an immediate advantage. Heat also destroys certain toxins to make some otherwise poisonous plants edible. These may have initially been burnt as fuel and the roasted tubers found and eaten by a curious ancestor the next morning.