Why does raw food get cooked and not heated up instead ?

Question

I might be dumb for that question.

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

It gets cooked *when* it’s heated up. Heat makes things like proteins (in eggs for example) restructure the food and changes the way food particles arrange themselves. The actual cooking is when the food chemically changes. We also heat up certain foods because they taste better or have a better mouthfeel at a different temperature.