Why can’t you cook your food at 5000degrees for 1 minute instead of 50degrees for 100 minutes?

Question

Why can’t you cook your food at 5000degrees for 1 minute instead of 50degrees for 100 minutes?

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Answer 1

Best answer I can think of is that different chemical reactions occur at different temperatures.

Chemical reactions for breaking down proteins and carbs to cook food and make them tasty happen at lower temps than 7000°C.

And in higher temperatures completely different reactions happen i.e burning. Burning is also a reaction called combustion.