Who was the first person to cook?

Answer 1

Pans for frying have been found in sites of ancient Mesopotamia. The use of animal fats for frying food have been around for a long time. More modern plant seed fats are more recent.

But deep frying, as we often enjoy fried chicken is probably dated in the United States from the 1800's. It is difficult to determine because although recipes from this era tend to appear to be describing 'deep fat frying' in fact the language of the recipe doesn't mention this term.

Frying chicken is thought to be a combination of Scot-Irish influences in the early American mid-continent and the influence of Black slaves who could raise chickens typically but not large animals for meat.

1840 to 1860 would be a good guess for the modern development of deep fat frying, exempting of course vegetable oils and electric frying equipment.

Answer 2

There's no possible way to know who was the first person to fry a chicken.

The bird we know today as a chicken is descended from the red junglefowl, or possibly a cross between the red and grey junglefowl. The junglefowl originated in Asia, and it's believed the chicken of today was first bred in southern Asia.

So we can be reasonably safe in guessing the first person to fry a chicken was an Asian person, but that person existed very long before recorded history, thousands of years ago.

Whoever it was, they'd have been eating raw eggs long before they tried cooking a chicken, and their first taste of Asian Fried Chicken would probably have been quite a revelation.

Answer 3

That is so far back in time that we don't know. The creation of fire changed man. Because they could cook food they got more protein so the brain grew. With a larger brain they were smarter than the animals they hunted and they began to form larger groups for protection and help.

Answer 4

Chicken was a carnivore. So, when a farmer saw the chicken eating itself, he thought it must taste good!

Answer 5

Sabrina O'Brien was the first person to cook in 1821

Answer 6

Nobody knows the name of the person who discovered that meat could be cooked.

There is archaeological evidence that meat was cooked in prehistoric Europe.

Answer 7

Colonel Sanders

Answer 8

Noah and his family