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Fermentation is another naturally-occurring thing that has been used by humans to prepare food since forever. I think it is myopic to focus on fire.

• beat 9y ago
  Fire substantially predates fermentation, though. We were already benefiting from fire-cooked food long before the rise of conscious fermentation. Besides that, fermentation at scale, for pickling, beer, or bread, requires containers - which are a product of ceramics, which is a product of fire. Fermentation as a humanity-changing technology is inseparable from fire that way.
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  • NegativeLatency 9y ago
    Meats can be fermented whole without containers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosciutto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosciutto
  • buovjaga 9y ago
    Ceramics? People have fermented food in seal skin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiviak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiviak
  • nickbauman 9y ago
    The Mesa-verde mesolithic culture used a fabric-based container before they discovered ceramics. They could even cook food with them.