Cooked Beef
A high-quality food obtained by cooking raw beef in a furnace, smoker, or campfire. Restores significant hunger.
Stack Size
64
Durability
N/A
Category
Food
Version Added
1.0
Item ID
cooked_beef
Cooked Beef at a glance
Food holds Cooked Beef: a food item out of smelting Raw Beef and killing cows with Fire Aspect. Carrying Cooked Beef is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest. It is worth 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation, which reads as 4 drumsticks.
8 hunger back per Cooked Beef keeps natural regeneration running, and the 12.8 saturation behind it is what buys you the time until the next meal, rather longer than the hunger number on its own suggests. It sits between Chorus Fruit and Cooked Chicken in Food, number 9 of 37 there.
How to obtain
- Smelting Raw Beef
- Killing cows with Fire Aspect
Food value
Hunger Restored
8 (4 drumsticks)
Saturation
12.8
Time to Eat
1.6 seconds
Eat On A Full Bar
No
Cooking
Cooked Beef comes out of Raw Beef, and a smoker, a furnace or a campfire will each do it. A smoker does one in 5 seconds, a campfire needs 30. Cooked Beef pays 0.35 experience each time, 22.4 for the whole 64. Raw Beef on its own is worth 3 hunger and 1.8 saturation; through the fire that becomes 8 and 12.8.
Mobs that drop it
Cow and Mooshroom drop Cooked Beef only while burning, so it takes Fire Aspect or a fire underneath to get it straight from the mob.
Eating
Count 4.8 seconds to eat back a whole bar with Cooked Beef: 3 helpings at 1.6 seconds each. Every hunger point Cooked Beef gives back carries 1.6 saturation with it, which is what decides how long you stay full. On saturation Cooked Beef lands at 2 of 37, just under Golden Carrot and just over Cooked Porkchop.
Notes
Also known as Steak. One of the best food sources in the game for hunger and saturation.
