If food is raw why put it on fire?

This question is like... about basic understanding, and yet I can't understand cooking.



To cook say... spaghetti all you do is follow a recipe, you don't even have to think about it. And yet... how did that recipe come to be? What's the thinking behind it?



Some poeple say cooking is art, some say cooking is science, and others say cooking is love. But I don't understand that ok, that doesn't make any sense, what's that got to do with fried chips with tomato sauce?



And you don't have to come from a family of artists or cooks to learn to cook like a pro of all pro's.If food is raw why put it on fire?
To use your example, pasta was of course originally fresh not dried. Someone probably didn't have time or to cook the pasta and left it on the table, voila dried pasta was discovered. Dried pasta could be manufactured, sold and shipped long distances. Cooking dried pasta of course make it edible, same with fresh pasta which would be doughy, floury if eaten raw.

Cooking food either makes it edible or safe as with meat, poultry, fish and eggs. Different methods of cooking foods change the flavor and texture of raw foods giving you more variety in your diet e.g. boiled vegetable are fairly bland, when steamed they are tastier, but when roasted most vegetables the taste and texture of most vegetables change. Knowing that adding a bit of parsley or other green herb can change a bland looking dish to an appetizing dish is part of the art of cooking.

Not everyone can or wants to cook, but most people can learn basic cooking if they have to. If you want to be a good cook you have to at least like food and cooking or why bother? As one becomes more proficient in cooking and baking, you can't help but pick up a bit of the science involved in cooking and people often eat with their eyes first. So a little artistic ability can go a long way in plating food.If food is raw why put it on fire?
It's always been a touch of "try and see." Like this:

Try and see if sand tastes good on hotdogs? nope, doesn't sound so good.

How's this, horseradish on hotdogs? hmmm, sounds better.

How about stewed radishes on pasta? ehhhh, not so sure about that.

How about stewed tomatoes on pasta? ymmm, sounds better.

See! you know more about cooking than you think.

Build upon what you see others doing.

Part of cooking is using imagination to guide you.

The more things you taste, the more pieces of the puzzle come together.If food is raw why put it on fire?
Just saw an article that said prehistoric people used to spend hours chewing meat that wasn't cooked so they had less time to do other survival things;.If food is raw why put it on fire?
cooking food makes it taste better and easier to digest eat a raw steak sometime and see what you think
To warm it up.