Do the Na'vi cook food ?

[Tìng Eywatikìte'e]

Thank you, I haven't read all the flora of the ASG yet, this is very useful. If there is something similar to flour that they can get easily than it is a high possibility that they have a bread like substance.

['Awve Tìkameie]

Yes, they use fire pits as ovens, and use the fauna and flora as the source of food.

[Tìng Eywatikìte'e]

Yes, they use fire pits as ovens, and use the fauna and flora as the source of food.

Please read the rest of the thread before posting, this had already been said.

[A. A. Aaron]

Thank you, I haven't read all the flora of the ASG yet, this is very useful. If there is something similar to flour that they can get easily than it is a high possibility that they have a bread like substance.

I think both sides have a good argument here. I agree that Eywa would provide everything the Na'vi need in terms of food, with little to no preparation required. However, unleavened bread does not require much work, and you wouldn't need an oven to cook it, just a large flat stone over, or at the edge of a fire. As the ASG says that they have a flour-like substance and we know they use a communal cooking firepit, it's not a massive stretch of the imagination to think that they might make something like that.

[Technowraith]

Thank you, I haven't read all the flora of the ASG yet, this is very useful. If there is something similar to flour that they can get easily than it is a high possibility that they have a bread like substance.

I think both sides have a good argument here. I agree that Eywa would provide everything the Na'vi need in terms of food, with little to no preparation required. However, unleavened bread does not require much work, and you wouldn't need an oven to cook it, just a large flat stone over, or at the edge of a fire. As the ASG says that they have a flour-like substance and we know they use a communal cooking firepit, it's not a massive stretch of the imagination to think that they might make something like that.

True. Thing is, most breads are baked in ovens, not open firepits. Although you could certainly bake on an open firepit. I think the Na'vi could easily bake. I'm not 100% sure, but some of the open area just below Hometree almost looked like they were growing things, like a farm. I may be mistaken though. Even nomadic tribes of today cultivate, if so on a rudimentary basis. The Na'vi could be growing a limited number of plants they need to eat. A river runs near Hometree, so there's an ample supply of water.

[ShadowedSin]

What one should be wondering is if the Na'vi have yeast or something like it. Because that will determine if they are creating flat breads or rising breads.

[Technowraith]

Flat breads seem the most likely avenue for nomadic tribes who have limited access to yeast. Yeast may not even exist on Pandora for all we know. So the onkly bread the Na'vi have if any is flat bread. Which can be just as yummy as regular rising bread.

[A. A. Aaron]

Flat breads seem the most likely avenue for nomadic tribes who have limited access to yeast. Yeast may not even exist on Pandora for all we know. So the onkly bread the Na'vi have if any is flat bread. Which can be just as yummy as regular rising bread.

The ASG says that the Na'vi are familiar with brewing. So they must have something like yeast. I'm not an expert on the subject (unless you're talking about the consumption of the final product) but yeast is required for brewing, right?

[AuLekye'ung]

On Earth.  Are we taking into account the possibility of a completely distinct set of edible plants then we have on Earth?  What if their yeast, or whatever they might use for their brewing, is the drippings from one of their lovely glowing plants?

[A. A. Aaron]

On Earth.  Are we taking into account the possibility of a completely distinct set of edible plants then we have on Earth?  What if their yeast, or whatever they might use for their brewing, is the drippings from one of their lovely glowing plants?

Well, any sort of active fungi like yeast. Who knows what weird sort of 'shroom drippings they might be using in the process. Na'vi beer might be some seriously potent stuff. (No wonder Jake made that comment about them not wanting blue jeans and light beer)

[AuLekye'ung]

Of course, I haven't got the ASG, but the only thing you ever see them drink in the movie is the water from those plants.

Of course, who's to say it's water?  It makes sense that if the atmosphere is so poisonous, then the elements that are present on Pandora are likely completely different.  Who's to say that the liquid that is present in their rivers and flora is water?  Do our elements of hydrogen and oxygen necessarily exist on a world millions of light years from Earth?

Aytsap'alute.  I just got completely off-topic.  Well, I started on-topic.

['Awve Tìkameie]

Yes, they use fire pits as ovens, and use the fauna and flora as the source of food.

Please read the rest of the thread before posting, this had already been said.

Sorry, I needed one more post to get to the next "forum level" and I had to leave. So I just found a topic I knew about and answered it

[Tìng Eywatikìte'e]

Yes, they use fire pits as ovens, and use the fauna and flora as the source of food.

Please read the rest of the thread before posting, this had already been said.

Sorry, I needed one more post to get to the next "forum level" and I had to leave. So I just found a topic I knew about and answered it

This is something you should avoid. Quality over quantity is an unspoken rule here. Posting just to boost your post count is not the best thing.

['Awve Tìkameie]

Yes, they use fire pits as ovens, and use the fauna and flora as the source of food.

Please read the rest of the thread before posting, this had already been said.

Sorry, I needed one more post to get to the next "forum level" and I had to leave. So I just found a topic I knew about and answered it

This is something you should avoid. Quality over quantity is an unspoken rule here. Posting just to boost your post count is not the best thing.

Ok. Once again I apologize. Eywa ngahu

[AuLekye'ung]

Of course, I haven't got the ASG, but the only thing you ever see them drink in the movie is the water from those plants.

Of course, who's to say it's water?  It makes sense that if the atmosphere is so poisonous, then the elements that are present on Pandora are likely completely different.  Who's to say that the liquid that is present in their rivers and flora is water?  Do our elements of hydrogen and oxygen necessarily exist on a world millions of light years from Earth?

Aytsap'alute.  I just got completely off-topic.  Well, I started on-topic.

Is there a thread for this sort of topic?  A discussion of the sort of topics that people might take for granted, but could be interesting to discuss?  Like the likely differences between the elements on Earth and the elements on Pandora?

[Tìng Eywatikìte'e]

I don't believe there is. If you ever have a question or a new idea you want to discuss just take a quick look at the rest of the threads; if you don't see it off the bat feel free to start a new thread.

[Toruk Makto]

I am looking at those fangs and trying to figure the gatherer bit. Those are a carnivore's teeth.

[ShadowedSin]

Na'vi create their knives from Ikran fangs apparently according to Pandorapedia. And they use an obsidian like volcanic glass for their arrow heads. That would make some proficient tools for preparing a kill.

[Txur’Itan]

I am looking at those fangs and trying to figure the gatherer bit. Those are a carnivore's teeth.

Baboons are primates with large fangs, and while they do primarily help with Meat eating, they are omnivorous.  We have our Fangs, they just shrank, so we have fang envy...  

It is possible that the Na'vi have another one to four million years of eating cooked and tool prepared food before those fangs become obsolete and evolved-smaller.

[ShadowedSin]

The Na'vi do have pronounced fangs but so do bears, who are well known to be omnivorous.