Try cutting up the meat with a bone knife that you make and sharpen yourself
How do you imagine that the hunter-gatherers are skinning and butchering the animal? With their fingernails?
I don’t accept your theory that humans have been cutting meat into small pieces and browning all the surface area since they invented cooking.
Okay. I don’t claim to know that for certain or anything. You’ve already accepted that the technique is at least thousands of years old, which is as far as I can feel really sure—although I’ll admit that it seems to me much more likely that the technique of cutting meat into small pieces was discovered substantially earlier, given its utter simplicity.
Edit: quoted parent as when I responded, the 2nd part was added after
Try cutting up the meat with a bone knife that you make and sharpen yourself
How do you imagine that the hunter-gatherers are skinning and butchering the animal? With their fingernails?
Of course they skinned and butchered the animal with knives. That doesn’t change the fact that producing and maintaining those knives is a lot of work for them, and they are more difficult to use than our modern knives, and this does have impact on the marginal costs of additional preparation of the meat.
Seriously, I found your reply to be sarcastic and unsubstantial.
How do you imagine that the hunter-gatherers are skinning and butchering the animal? With their fingernails?
Okay. I don’t claim to know that for certain or anything. You’ve already accepted that the technique is at least thousands of years old, which is as far as I can feel really sure—although I’ll admit that it seems to me much more likely that the technique of cutting meat into small pieces was discovered substantially earlier, given its utter simplicity.
Edit: quoted parent as when I responded, the 2nd part was added after
Of course they skinned and butchered the animal with knives. That doesn’t change the fact that producing and maintaining those knives is a lot of work for them, and they are more difficult to use than our modern knives, and this does have impact on the marginal costs of additional preparation of the meat.
Seriously, I found your reply to be sarcastic and unsubstantial.
Sorry. You may have seen it before I edited to add the less-sarcastic second half.