How people first boiled food

[rosezingleman]

“Adam, did you finish that terrace?”
“No I’m making a clay pot.”
<wife sighs>

[vwabi]

Drog: "What Grog doing with rock and fire?"
Grog: "Inventing nixtamalization by treating corn in a caustic alkali"

[grossly_mismanaged]

A lot of Native Americans, especially the Pacific West Natives used water tight baskets instead of clay vessels. These baskets are truly amazing and goes to show the in depth knowledge that the natives have of the plants around them as well as the artistic skill to make such intricate cooking baskets

[georgeamesfort]

Prehistoric Adam:
"Why I cook my pot and not my food"

[M-Soares]

"Honey, the new neighbour is setting the hole on fire again..."

[kaitlynboss]

I have a feeling that a kid was the one who discovered that wet clay was moldable. Adults saw the kids playing with the clay and saw that it held its shape really well and would start to experiment with it. Learning that it was easier to shape when wetter and stuff like that.

[yeet]

It started as "haha, funny guy seasons his cutting board instead of the steak" and now I'm sitting here watching a video on something I never would've guessed I'd find interesting, purely because it's Adam talking about it

[darrylwayne]

That Mario pipe sound effect was actually extremely accurate

[Melissa]

There's a guy named David Good, whose mother is a Yanomami tribe member and I think they boil stuff in banana leaves or something. His dad was a professor who met his mom when he was in Venezuela, studying the tribe in the 80's. He brought her to the U.S and she stayed for 5 years, before deciding to go back to the tribe. The woman had never seen modern civilization before yet she managed to function and give birth to three kids in those five years. David traveled to Venezuela and reunited with his mom a few years ago. He has a YouTube channel and he raises money to go back to the jungle and help the tribespeople. He answers all kinds of questions in the comments on his videos.

[juwulia_]

"are you mario in a pipe?"
"yes"
that is so fucking adorable I'm gonna need a moment

[haadiusman]

This is how my dad says he used to make food

[bangalorebobbel]

Just to add: ceramic pots are still used today for cooking all over the world, the use of these vessels is not yet over. E.g. in the USA or Europe they use crookpots made from clay (and interestingly the commonly used Römertopf of Germany has to be watered before use but no idea about what has to be done to prepare US pots before cooking) mainly for slow cooking methods, and here in India many families use still their clay pots for daily cooking of rice and curries or just, to boil hot water for having bath. And of course, clay pots are not only in use for cooking but still widely used in hot regions like Rajasthan for keeping drinking water cool, since water passing through the clay and evaporating at the outer side of the vessel keeps the container naturally cooled.

[KnivingDispodia]

We are witnessing Adam’s slow descent into anarcho-primitivism.

[cinemaocd]

Ash is flavoring. In the cookbook "sioux chef" there is a recipe for culinary ash. It has a peppery flavor. It was part of the paleo pantry. Also bison bladders were used for carrying and storing water. No reason they couldn't have been used as a cooking vessel.

[TheMizGee]

Seeing the hole dug for the clay i thought that if people continuously used their pot boilers and leaves in the same hole wouldn't the surrounding clay eventually harden and even get fired?

[sutematsu]

Something interesting on this: my ancestors (Chetco and Tututni people from southern Oregon/northern California) didn't have good earth for clay, so instead we developed baskets that were woven so tightly they were waterproof. Just like the animal skin, the water inside protected these baskets from burning so they could be used right over the fire. Cool!

[johnwiley]

Water dripped through wood ash also makes lye. Old fashioned "Lye soap" was made by dripping water through hardwood ash from the fireplace, and cooking the resulting lye water with rendered animal fat. Adam, you likely have families within thirty miles of you that still make their everyday soap this way. As you were describing the ashy pot boilers and nixtamalization, I thought, why not this way?

[tyasbank]

Loving this video! I was already impressed with the leaves and the transfer rock method. Then the pottery thing started and that must have been SUCH a revolution for humanity. What I love about these old techniques is that whilst requiring skill, I could probably learn it and find the ingredients around me. Using just my two hands and nature. I would never be able to craft a CPU or something like that. And whilst one might be considered 'more advanced', the practicality and impact of making clay bowls to cook in is huge. I have mad respect for our ancestors for working all of this out, sharing it and working with the few tools they have.

[jpthomas]

the eternal human urge of seeing a hole and going "I should get in the hole"

[BlarghMeow]

I just watched a video of Mongolian "Boodog" and they used a goats entire body as a sort of makeshift stewpot for the meat that had been butchered. At the end you're left with an entire edible carcass with a stew inside. idk how old it is but it's worth a mention.