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    Default why do we cook food?

    maybe this can serve as a little introduction to the cooking threads

    why do we cook food?


    food is our body

    the food we eat is the material that becomes our body


    it is alchemy at its finest
    you take a substance
    put it in a box
    and it becomes something different


    from an abstract point of view
    the human body has the ability to turn plant life into something that can speak



    technically
    a body in perfect health and existing in a perfect environment
    cooks food on its own
    with proper chewing
    digestion begins in the mouth and the food is broken down throughout the digestive system


    we currently live in an environment that does not really give the opportunity to do this for a couple of reasons
    first - being exposed to pollution and a toxic environment can negatively affect the digestive system
    second - we have began to depend on certain foods that are difficult for the body to digest
    but
    with proper preparation
    these foods become very useful to the body



    basically
    cooking is a method of pre-digesting food

    instead of digestion beginning in your mouth
    you begin the digestion outside your mouth when you begin preparing food

    preparation of food takes many forms
    the application of heat is the one we are all familiar with

    soaking and fermentation of foods like wheat and sprouts is another often used method

    when you buy green bananas and let them ripen - this is also a method of cooking
    - the only difference is that you dont do anything but wait
    - the bananas slowly 'cook' themselves at room temperature



    recently
    in one of the local newspapers i read an article that claimed that the average meal preparation time has decreased from 6 hours a day in 1900 to barely 20 minutes a day in 2006

    this is a symptom of a lot of things in our society

    we are using bad techniques to prepare food too quickly

    although mot of us cannot see the effects of this right away
    we are eating food that is not ready to be digested
    or
    simply cannot be digested at all

    these days
    people eat often for the feeling of taste bud stimulation instead of the nourishment that the body really craves

    i will clean this up and maybe add more to it later


    please add on if you have any insights

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    i thought this was common sense, you cook food not only because it tastes better, but because so you don't eat all the parasites and disease that is on the un-cooked animal's flesh.

    if you don't want to cook food so you can be some kind of abstract thinker be my guest, but don't blame me when you get food poisoning or whatever. no matter how healthy your body is, un cooked food is not nearly as healthy or safe. why do some people boil water first before they drink it? to get rid of the germs.

    now if we're just talking about vegetables, then for the most part a good wash gets rid of the crap off of them, but cooking them makes it taste better. people generally like to eat good tasting food.

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    He didn't say don't cook the food... are you reading the post properly?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Koolish
    i thought this was common sense, you cook food not only because it tastes better, but because so you don't eat all the parasites and disease that is on the un-cooked animal's flesh.

    if you don't want to cook food so you can be some kind of abstract thinker be my guest, but don't blame me when you get food poisoning or whatever. no matter how healthy your body is, un cooked food is not nearly as healthy or safe. why do some people boil water first before they drink it? to get rid of the germs.

    now if we're just talking about vegetables, then for the most part a good wash gets rid of the crap off of them, but cooking them makes it taste better. people generally like to eat good tasting food.
    ^^you didnt have to get offensive about the subject but yeah i agree with you.

    is the thread starter proposing that that we can eat hamburger meat raw? are you saying that ripened fruit has less nutrients then unriped fruit?

    i think the time for cooking has decreased because the advancement of technology has brought about more efficient ways to heat food. things are cooked faster and more efficiently.
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    You guys obviously aren't reading the post properly...

    He's stating that by using artificial means of heating the food quickly, we are being inefficient, decreasing the nutrients, not breaking the composition down enough, and increasing the risk of pathogens. He's stating not that we shouldn't cook food, that we should slow cook food. Matter fact, one of the best meals I ever ate in my life, I slow roasted a london broil for like 5 hours on a grill. It was crispy on the outside, and nice and tender on the inside, absolutely delicious...


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    Quote Originally Posted by TeknicelStylez
    You guys obviously aren't reading the post properly...

    He's stating that by using artificial means of heating the food quickly, we are being inefficient, decreasing the nutrients, not breaking the composition down enough, and increasing the risk of pathogens. He's stating not that we shouldn't cook food, that we should slow cook food. Matter fact, one of the best meals I ever ate in my life, I slow roasted a london broil for like 5 hours on a grill. It was crispy on the outside, and nice and tender on the inside, absolutely delicious...
    thank you for breaking that down a bit better. that is true.
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    Broccoli taste good even if its just raw. I put it into salads myself. I'm currently in the process of moving away from red meats for the most part. I already don't eat pork and haven't for years. I don't think I'll ever completely move away from beef but me and my girl try to keep it to no more than once a week. We usually eat either chicken, turkey, or salmon and load up on all kinda of fruits and veggies. Most anything that grows out the ground is superfood for your body.

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    cooking food is very important

    it should not be rushed


    thanks for the help in clearing that up Tek
    all the points have been made

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    Your analysis of cooking perhaps should've included the real reasons why we cook food. Its not digestion. We cook food, even boil water, to kill anything living inside of it.
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    You go right ahead and eat that half a pound of un-cooked ground beef and then come holla at me about cooking or not cooking food when that tapeworm clears up...

    (Its sarcasm.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Os3y3ris
    Your analysis of cooking perhaps should've included the real reasons why we cook food. Its not digestion. We cook food, even boil water, to kill anything living inside of it.
    we cooked food before we even knew about 'things living in it'

    that germ shit is a farce anyway
    all the points have been made

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    food seems to draw almost as unreasonable responses as race threads

    these are the only types of threads where people post without even reading
    all the points have been made

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    in theory we shouldn't, but it doesn't apply for us in the present, too much disesage + contamination etc.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by snapple
    in theory we shouldn't, but it doesn't apply for us in the present, too much disesage + contamination etc.....
    i am seeing the same conclusions
    all the points have been made

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