Culinary Art - Isn't it amazing?

[SagaLore]

I think it is the #1 difference that sets us apart from other animals.

Every other living thing consumes some type of food source the way they found it.

But humans, we don't settle for that. If it is meat, we cook it or cure it or smoke it or dry it. If it is a vegetable, we slice it up in different patterns, or steam it, or boil it, or bake it, or mash it. If it is a fruit, we turn it into a jam or sauce or beverage.

But for the most part, that is just different ways to make the foods more edible, or safer to eat, or perserve them for later consumption. But now we have to consider sauces and breads and pastas. Just look at bread. We INVENTED a whole new kind of food.

And that still isn't enough. We take dairy, which I don't think any other animal attempts to consume after a short time, and we don't just use it as a beverage, but we make cheese and butter and icecream... We invented another food group.

And then we combine all these foods together, combined with spices, in ways that make them even more palatable.

It is just amazing if you really think about it.

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think it is the #1 difference that sets us apart from other animals.

Every other living thing consumes some type of food source the way they found it.

But humans, we don't settle for that. If it is meat, we cook it or cure it or smoke it or dry it. If it is a vegetable, we slice it up in different patterns, or steam it, or boil it, or bake it, or mash it. If it is a fruit, we turn it into a jam or sauce or beverage.

But for the most part, that is just different ways to make the foods more edible, or safer to eat, or perserve them for later consumption. But now we have to consider sauces and breads and pastas. Just look at bread. We INVENTED a whole new kind of food.

And that still isn't enough. We take dairy, which I don't think any other animal attempts to consume after a short time, and we don't just use it as a beverage, but we make cheese and butter and icecream... We invented another food group.

And then we combine all these foods together, combined with spices, in ways that make them even more palatable.

It is just amazing if you really think about it.

The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

 

[tami]

i'm eating a chocolate chocolate chip otis spunkmeyer muffin right now.

 

[eakers]

you're making me hungry!!!

 

[AbAbber2k]

I had fresh sushi last night. Most of what we ate was alive that morning. Tuna, octopus, eel... each of us ate what would probably amount to 50-100 dollars worth of sushi in a nice restaraunt, but all together it only cost a combined $50 to buy all the ingrediants.

 

[sygyzy]

Originally posted by: arcenite

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think it is the #1 difference that sets us apart from other animals.

Every other living thing consumes some type of food source the way they found it.

But humans, we don't settle for that. If it is meat, we cook it or cure it or smoke it or dry it. If it is a vegetable, we slice it up in different patterns, or steam it, or boil it, or bake it, or mash it. If it is a fruit, we turn it into a jam or sauce or beverage.

But for the most part, that is just different ways to make the foods more edible, or safer to eat, or perserve them for later consumption. But now we have to consider sauces and breads and pastas. Just look at bread. We INVENTED a whole new kind of food.

And that still isn't enough. We take dairy, which I don't think any other animal attempts to consume after a short time, and we don't just use it as a beverage, but we make cheese and butter and icecream... We invented another food group.

And then we combine all these foods together, combined with spices, in ways that make them even more palatable.

It is just amazing if you really think about it.

The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

Apes make and use tools too.

 

[toekramp]

i just like raw meat

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: arcenite
The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

Wrong, other animals do this, too.

 

[Quasmo]

dont look into car engines with the same exuberance, your head will explode.

 

[Tylanner]

we fart for fun

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: arcenite
The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

Not true.

Spider webs. Beaver dams.

http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/050113.shtml

 

[BigPoppa]

Originally posted by: sygyzy

Originally posted by: arcenite

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think it is the #1 difference that sets us apart from other animals.

Every other living thing consumes some type of food source the way they found it.

But humans, we don't settle for that. If it is meat, we cook it or cure it or smoke it or dry it. If it is a vegetable, we slice it up in different patterns, or steam it, or boil it, or bake it, or mash it. If it is a fruit, we turn it into a jam or sauce or beverage.

But for the most part, that is just different ways to make the foods more edible, or safer to eat, or perserve them for later consumption. But now we have to consider sauces and breads and pastas. Just look at bread. We INVENTED a whole new kind of food.

And that still isn't enough. We take dairy, which I don't think any other animal attempts to consume after a short time, and we don't just use it as a beverage, but we make cheese and butter and icecream... We invented another food group.

And then we combine all these foods together, combined with spices, in ways that make them even more palatable.

It is just amazing if you really think about it.

The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

Apes make and use tools too.

Show me an ape wielding a self-built sawzall and we'll call your point valid.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
I had fresh sushi last night. Most of what we ate was alive that morning. Tuna, octopus, eel... each of us ate what would probably amount to 50-100 dollars worth of sushi in a nice restaraunt, but all together it only cost a combined $50 to buy all the ingrediants.

Right, but sushi also consists of cooked rice, dried seaweed, and those sauces that come with it.

 

[DaShen]

So what are you saying SagaLore? That to further our evolutionary development, we need to all join a cooking school.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: BigPoppa

Originally posted by: sygyzy

Originally posted by: arcenite

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think it is the #1 difference that sets us apart from other animals.

Every other living thing consumes some type of food source the way they found it.

But humans, we don't settle for that. If it is meat, we cook it or cure it or smoke it or dry it. If it is a vegetable, we slice it up in different patterns, or steam it, or boil it, or bake it, or mash it. If it is a fruit, we turn it into a jam or sauce or beverage.

But for the most part, that is just different ways to make the foods more edible, or safer to eat, or perserve them for later consumption. But now we have to consider sauces and breads and pastas. Just look at bread. We INVENTED a whole new kind of food.

And that still isn't enough. We take dairy, which I don't think any other animal attempts to consume after a short time, and we don't just use it as a beverage, but we make cheese and butter and icecream... We invented another food group.

And then we combine all these foods together, combined with spices, in ways that make them even more palatable.

It is just amazing if you really think about it.

The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

Apes make and use tools too.

Show me an ape wielding a self-built sawzall and we'll call your point valid.

I'd like to see YOU wield a self-built sawzall.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: BigPoppa

Originally posted by: sygyzy

Originally posted by: arcenite

Originally posted by: SagaLore
I think it is the #1 difference that sets us apart from other animals.

Every other living thing consumes some type of food source the way they found it.

But humans, we don't settle for that. If it is meat, we cook it or cure it or smoke it or dry it. If it is a vegetable, we slice it up in different patterns, or steam it, or boil it, or bake it, or mash it. If it is a fruit, we turn it into a jam or sauce or beverage.

But for the most part, that is just different ways to make the foods more edible, or safer to eat, or perserve them for later consumption. But now we have to consider sauces and breads and pastas. Just look at bread. We INVENTED a whole new kind of food.

And that still isn't enough. We take dairy, which I don't think any other animal attempts to consume after a short time, and we don't just use it as a beverage, but we make cheese and butter and icecream... We invented another food group.

And then we combine all these foods together, combined with spices, in ways that make them even more palatable.

It is just amazing if you really think about it.

The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

Apes make and use tools too.

Show me an ape wielding a self-built sawzall and we'll call your point valid.

I'd like to see YOU wield a self-built sawzall.

"3,2,....1 Count It"

 

[habib89]

and that, my friend, is why i wanted to be a chef all my life... alas, engineering stole me away... cooking is great.. it almost is an artform.. you can cook the same thing, but in so many different ways.. never making it exactly the same...

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
I had fresh sushi last night. Most of what we ate was alive that morning. Tuna, octopus, eel... each of us ate what would probably amount to 50-100 dollars worth of sushi in a nice restaraunt, but all together it only cost a combined $50 to buy all the ingrediants.

Right, but sushi also consists of cooked rice, dried seaweed, and those sauces that come with it.

Edit: NM I get your point. MY point, was that Sushi is both delicious and incredibly aesthetically pleasing. Hence the culinary art aspect of your thread. I wasn't trying to refute you by talking about eating raw fish.

 

[swimscubasteve]

I know some colony of monkeys in some weird country figured out how to dip their food in salt water to make it taste better.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: swimscubasteve
I know some colony of monkeys in some weird country figured out how to dip their food in salt water to make it taste better.

I think they learned that poo is a tool as well... or is at least useful for throwing.

 

[habib89]

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
I had fresh sushi last night. Most of what we ate was alive that morning. Tuna, octopus, eel... each of us ate what would probably amount to 50-100 dollars worth of sushi in a nice restaraunt, but all together it only cost a combined $50 to buy all the ingrediants.

Right, but sushi also consists of cooked rice, dried seaweed, and those sauces that come with it.

Edit: NM I get your point. MY point, was that Sushi is both delicious and incredibly aesthetically pleasing. Hence the culinary art aspect of your thread. I wasn't trying to refute you by talking about eating raw fish.

it's spelled cuisine.. but anyhow, was the fish really alive earlier that day? most sushi restraunts will have frozen fish.. i believe it kills some bacteria or something.. i'm not sure really... and those little beans are edamame, or soy beans

damnit, you edited before i could post my message.. ah well.. anyway, i also wanted to mention that otters use rocks to open up clams and other shellfish

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: swimscubasteve
I know some colony of monkeys in some weird country figured out how to dip their food in salt water to make it taste better.

Did this said colony of monkey all go extinct due to high blood pressure?

 

[illusion88]

I eat poo!

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: DaShen

Originally posted by: arcenite
The #1 difference that sets us apart from animals is the fact that we make our own tools. This is just a branch of that FTW.

Wrong, other animals do this, too.

Yep, and when scientist changed the definition to the ability to teach tool use to others they found a group of apes that were teaching tool use to others.

SagaLore, agreed it is quite amazing when you spell it all out like that.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: habib89

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
I had fresh sushi last night. Most of what we ate was alive that morning. Tuna, octopus, eel... each of us ate what would probably amount to 50-100 dollars worth of sushi in a nice restaraunt, but all together it only cost a combined $50 to buy all the ingrediants.

Right, but sushi also consists of cooked rice, dried seaweed, and those sauces that come with it.

Edit: NM I get your point. MY point, was that Sushi is both delicious and incredibly aesthetically pleasing. Hence the culinary art aspect of your thread. I wasn't trying to refute you by talking about eating raw fish.

it's spelled cuisine.. but anyhow, was the fish really alive earlier that day? most sushi restraunts will have frozen fish.. i believe it kills some bacteria or something.. i'm not sure really... and those little beans are edamame, or soy beans

damnit, you edited before i could post my message.. ah well.. anyway, i also wanted to mention that otters use rocks to open up clams and other shellfish

The tuna and octopus was killed and put on ice early in the morning before it was prepared (ate at 10pm). The eel, was the only thing that wasn't "fresh." I forget the exact temperatures but basically anything near freezing or boiling should do the trick. I'll let you know if I get sick. But gd was it good. Especially the tuna and eel.