From tripod to bronze cooker, to modern smokeless kitchen and integrated kitchen, the progress of kitchen culture explains the progress of human civilization. Next, please follow the author back to the past and see the development history of kitchen culture, what people have eaten since ancient times, and how all kinds of food are made.
How did ancient people eat?
As we all know, the appearance of fire has made human civilization take a big step forward, ending the era of eating raw meat from the matriarchal society in the early Neolithic age. In this era, people can use fire to warm and bake food, and cooking is inseparable from stoves and containers. With the improvement of metal smelting technology, besides being used to make cold weapons in the war, there are also some metal containers for cooking. Set up a stove with a few stones in the cave, which is the most primitive "kitchen".
Primitive humans learned to use fire.
The Neolithic cookers were clay pots, retort, kettle, pot, floor furnace, brick furnace and stone furnace, with rough bowls, bowls, plates and pots as utensils. There are a wide range of cooking methods, such as fire roasting, stone roasting and steaming. The cooker is not strong enough, the heat transfer performance is not good, and the cooking method is relatively simple. However, the appearance of cooked food at least shows that people have made great progress from solving hunger to enjoying delicious food.
The evolution of cookware
Binaural kettle
With the progress of metal smelting technology, a large number of bronzes appeared in Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, including bronze tableware. Metal tableware is not only light and exquisite, but also has better thermal conductivity, which has made a qualitative leap in both the decorative function of bronzes and the taste of food.
Porcelain kitchenware
It is more convenient to put the wok in the Warring States period on the stove, and put a steamer on it for steaming and cooking.
By the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, pots and kettles had become thinner, and the kitchen had begun to take shape. In the Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, porcelain tableware gradually replaced pottery and metal tableware.
It can be said that ancient people did not have the concept of kitchen, but only learned to cook food with fire, and the finalization of various cookers was also a long process. Food is only to solve the problem of hunger.
Wonderful story of eating goods in ancient times
Su Dongpo: Life is eating!
Su Dongpo is a foodie who eats all over the country. However, unlike Qianlong's spontaneous travel, Su Dongpo was forced to travel. Su Dongpo wrote in his self-titled "Portrait of Jinshan": "The heart is like a gray wood, and the body seems to be tied to a boat. Ask about your life achievements, Huangzhou Huizhou Danzhou. " You see, Su Shi was sent to so many places in his life, and naturally he ate a lot of local delicacies.
Dongpo pork knuckle
Su Dongpo can not only eat, but also invent to write dishes. It is said that there are more than 60 kinds of dishes named after Dongpo. Perhaps the most famous is Dongpo elbow. Su Dongpo also wrote a poem for him: "A clean pot, no water, no firewood." Don't rush him when he is ripe, it looks good when the fire is full. Huangzhou good pork, the price is as cheap as dirt. Noble people refuse to eat, and poor people don't know how to cook. I got up in the morning and cooked two bowls. I was so full that my husband didn't care. "Such a talented foodie, although life is a little rough, does not affect his love for food, which can be described as Shuang Bao of literature and food.