Earliest known cooked meals

While researchers contend that Homo ergaster was an early form of Homo erectus who roamed Africa 1.9 million years ago and appear to be the first Hominid to use fire. However new research indicates that scientists have found the earliest evidence of cooked meals in Israel as late as 780,000 years ago. Here's the basic story: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/world/earliest-evidence-of-cooking-with-fire-scn, and here's the research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01910-z.