stackyFACTSLacking metal pots, they simply pulled red-hot rocks from a fire and dropped them directly into water-filled squash shells until it angrily bubbled.
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The original slow cooker literally just consisted of throwing a bunch of hot rocks and raw meat into a dirt pit and completely burying it for hours.
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Cooking essentially meant crouching dangerously close to an open raging flame while desperately trying not to set your own sleeves completely on fire.
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Because average citizens completely lacked proper home ovens, everyone literally dropped off their raw meat at the breadmaker to be roasted over the weekend.
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Reigniting a hearth without matches was such a tedious, miserable nightmare that peasants just let logs dangerously smolder 24/7 inside their homes.
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Without convenient flat stovetops, every heavy piece of iron cookware had to awkwardly straddle the glowing embers like a creepy metallic spider.
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Getting that absolutely perfect umami flavor required massive wooden barrels and a level of deep culinary patience modern humanity no longer possesses.
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