A simple concept but hard to be an accident

[Zeta Reticulum]

Evolution... according to Darwin. But then how did the caterpillar evolve into a butterfly?........... How did the first one happen?

It just worked out to evolve that way?

[JesseCuster]

Evolution... according to Darwin.

According to Darwin, bread evolved? What are you talking about? In what book did he put forward that crazy theory?

But then how did the caterpillar evolve into a butterfly?........... How did the first one happen?

It just worked out to evolve that way?

Caterpillars didn't evolve into butterflies any more than babies evolved into adults.

If want really want to know about how butterflies might have evolved, then why not start a thread asking that question instead of derailing one about how bread was invented.

Or buy one of those Dummies Guides books about evolution and maybe actually learn something about it.

Edited November 11, 2013 by JesseCuster

[George Ford]

Well we must have been advanced enough to be farmers. So will have been storing the grain, it will have been powdered down to make it easier to eat for some people. Then pretty much every kid is gonna mix water with whatever they can cos kids do stuff like that. They probably did not clean beneath their fingernail. So one night some kid as been playing with a mix of flour and water, maybe even tasted it and spat it back out. The yeast would come from fingernails and spit. He gets distracted by his pet dog and a few hours later sees that the dough has changed but doesn't taste good. He knows meat tastes better cooked and so tries to cook it. Or it was the end of the night and the fire was pretty much dead, so he just tosses it into the ashes, but there is enough heat to bake it.

[rashore]

My two cents

Grains were gathered prior to farming- one of the first things to be farmed were grains. A lot of grains kind of can't really be eaten in raw form- some sort of cleanup is required to get the grains. And typically, most grains are gathered at the end of season, when they are dry, which yields a hard grain that is rather difficult to chew up. But it stores up well. So, how to deal with this? You crack the grains and soften them- usually in water.

Well, it's not always convenient to carry around a pot of porridge, now is it? Much nicer to bake that stuff off over dry heat to make it handy- literally. Why not? Meat that the hunters bring in get heat treated and that turns out good.

And with this thought process, bread was invented

[lightly]

The consensus seems to be... grain got wet (and the starches stuck it together), and in an attempt to dry it, A rudimentary 'bread' happened.

Well we solved that one i think. .. pass the Honey please

[spud the mackem]

The History of Bread

Moses tapped his magic wand on a rock and where there wasn't bread there was bread,and they all had Hovis for tea.

[blueblood]

[belize]

The first bread must have been sour dough, no?

Native South Americans eat cassava bread. Grated bitter cassave, they next extract the poisonous juice,

and then bake the rough flour on a metal sheet. Its a flat, large, hard bread, not raised, and keeps good for a long time.

They wet it before eating. I eat it heaped with butter end some sea salt, if I can find it..

So I wonder if breadmaking started with some flour type thing. Is there any powdery, edible stuff in nature?

Edited December 5, 2013 by blueblood

[Rafterman]

Clearly it was aliens.