A number of animals have shown a preference for cooked food in the wild. For example, carnivores will scavenge carcasses after a wildfire, and will preferentially eat those carcasses, or parts thereof, that have been cooked through. Of course, this is all done opportunistically; I don’t think any animals besides humans have been observed to deliberately throw meat on a fire to cook.
Giving raccoons cotton candy is a cruel trick I’ve seen videos of.
They eventually figure it out.
You can see this same behavior a lot in crows or grackles. Give them some stale bread or cookies and they tear off a piece and hop to the birdbath or edge of the lake to dunk it.
Hard to tell if it’s innate or cuisine because not all of them do it. It is funny to see a line of 15 or 20, all dunking bread in the lake. They have to be careful about it too. If it gets real soggy it just slides thru their beaks and they can’t pick it back up and it just sinks.
The look of sadness and defeat on their little furry faces … 