I love cooking.  It's interesting to think that preparing food with heat or fire is unique to humans.
It sure is.  I'm very thankful for my oven and microwave though.
Microwaves are amazing.  Dielectric heating is a very interesting process where polar molecules in the food rotate to produce heat.
So I was thinking about that you said about human being the only ones that cook food. I've never really considered that before.  Animals eat food raw whether it is meat or vegetables.  I can't eat raw meat though, no, no, no!
Food
Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingested by an organism and assimilated by the organism's cells to provide energy, maintain life, or stimulate growth.
Historically, humans secured food through two methods: hunting and gathering and agriculture. Today, the majority of the food energy required by the ever increasing population of the world
Microwave oven
A microwave oven (also commonly referred to as a microwave) is an electric oven that heats and cooks food by exposing it to electromagnetic radiation in the microwave frequency range. This induces polar molecules in the food to rotate and produce thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating. Microwave ovens heat foods quickly and efficiently because excitation is fairly uniform in the outer of a homogeneous, high water content food item.
The development of the cavity magnetron made possible the production of electromagnetic waves of a small enough