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Can chimps pass down cooking?

Hi, I was wondering if you could teach a whole generation of chimps to cook, and have it pass on down generation after generation to perpetuity.

So let's say you give a whole tribe of chimps a sort of relatively safe reusable firestarter device, and a frying pan/stand setup. You teach the whole tribe to use them using cooked food as reward.

I'd expect some chimps to reject the notion of cooking food (some humans reject it too) but the one's that do would lead healthier lives, survival of the fittest, etc.

Now as the children grow up, they are taught/observe how to cook food. Is it possible for this continue forever as long as the devices last and they have a supply of cookable food? Sort of like creating a culture of cooking?
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I studied chimps for several years. One big issue with teaching them how to cook is you must first teach them how to make fire. Making fire would likely prove a bigger obstacle than actually learning that cooked food is better than uncooked. 
Chimpanzees have been demonstrated to have a capacity to understand cooking and even prefer cooked food to uncooked food: Cognitive capacities for cooking in chimpanzees. Warneken & Rosati. Chimpanzees have developed and use intricate toolsets to get to termites, honey, hunt galagos. Unless provided with human technologies (ovens, stoves, etc.) chimps would be unlikely to learn how to make a fire but even if the skill was learned, the act of fire-making would be difficult if not impossible due to the morphology of their hands. (They have tiny thumbs)