How does people cook in the olden days?

Answer 1

Please define "olden days". Depending on the time it could be over an open fire to a stove. The era makes a difference.

Answer 2

Initially food was cooked by tossing it in a fire and removing it when thehair burned off and the meat heated up. The food might also be coated with mud then buried under the fire to cook and dug up to eat. Peeling the (now hard) mud away removed the hide and skin.

Later the food would be place on rocks close to the fire or suspended over the fire on a spit or stick. It is a joke that early people held food in the fire to cook until sticks were used to save their fingers from burning and making cooking more pleasant.

The lack of metal pots and pans hampered cooking in fluid for a while but early peoples would hollow out a depression in a rock or make a water tight bark basket, put the food in it with water and add hot rocks to heat the water and cook the food,

Answer 3

Please define "olden days" because it makes a difference in types of foods and how they were made.

Answer 4

With fire, or fire-heated rocks.

Answer 5

depends on what tribe.