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Cooked Mutton
FoodCraftable

Cooked Mutton

Mutton cooked in a furnace, smoker, or campfire. It restores 6 hunger points.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Food

Version Added

1.8

Item ID

cooked_mutton

Cooked Mutton at a glance

Minecraft files Cooked Mutton under Food: a food item you get from smelting (Furnace, Smoker, Campfire). Stack Cooked Mutton 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest. Hunger goes up 6 and saturation 9.6 when you eat Cooked Mutton, so 3 drumsticks a time.

6 hunger back per Cooked Mutton keeps natural regeneration running, and the 9.6 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 Cooked Cod and Cooked Porkchop in Food, number 12 of 37 there.

Crafting recipe

Furnace
Raw MuttonRaw Mutton
Cooked MuttonCooked Mutton

How to obtain

  • Smelting (Furnace, Smoker, Campfire)

Food value

Hunger Restored

6 (3 drumsticks)

Saturation

9.6

Time to Eat

1.6 seconds

Eat On A Full Bar

No

Cooking

Put Raw Mutton in a smoker, a furnace or a campfire and out comes Cooked Mutton. The smoker is quickest at 5 seconds a piece, the campfire slowest at 30. Experience comes with it: 0.35 a piece, 22.4 for the 64 in a slot. Cooking multiplies what you get: 3 times the hunger of Raw Mutton and 8 times the saturation.

Mobs that drop it

Sheep drops Cooked Mutton only while burning, so it takes Fire Aspect or a fire underneath to get it straight from the mob.

Eating

4 helpings clear an empty hunger bar, at 1.6 seconds each, which is 6.4 seconds before Cooked Mutton has done the job. Per point of hunger you get 1.6 saturation out of Cooked Mutton, and saturation is what drains before hunger does. On saturation Cooked Mutton lands at 5 of 37, just under Rabbit Stew and just over Cooked Salmon.

Notes

Cooked in a Furnace, Smoker, or Campfire.

Frequently asked questions about Cooked Mutton

  1. Raw Mutton going into Cooked Mutton, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Cooked Mutton in Minecraft?

    Cooked Mutton is crafted from Raw Mutton at a Furnace, in a single step.

  2. Cooked Mutton coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.8

    When was Cooked Mutton added to Minecraft?

    Cooked Mutton was added in version 1.8.

  3. Cooked Mutton beside the 6 hunger points one helping restores

    How long does it take to eat Cooked Mutton?

    1.6 seconds for one Cooked Mutton, and an empty bar of Cooked Mutton means 4 of those, or 6.4 seconds in total. Each bite hands back 6 hunger, so the 4 of them add up to a full bar.

  4. Several Cooked Mutton at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Cooked Mutton?

    Sheep drops Cooked Mutton only while burning, so it takes Fire Aspect or a fire underneath to get it straight from the mob.

  5. The raw item going into a furnace and coming out as Cooked Mutton

    How do you cook Cooked Mutton?

    Put Raw Mutton in a smoker, a furnace or a campfire and out comes Cooked Mutton. The smoker is quickest at 5 seconds a piece, the campfire slowest at 30. Experience comes with it: 0.35 a piece, 22.4 for the 64 in a slot. Cooking multiplies what you get: 3 times the hunger of Raw Mutton and 8 times the saturation.

  6. Cooked Mutton on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Cooked Mutton used for?

    Cooked Mutton is eaten to restore 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation, helping you keep your hunger bar full and regenerate health.

  7. 64 Cooked Mutton drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Cooked Mutton can you stack?

    One slot takes 64 Cooked Mutton: eat the lot and that is 19.2 bars. A double chest of Cooked Mutton comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

Building with it

Six hunger from cooked mutton, and sheep give wool as well, so a sheep pen feeds the kitchen and the dye chest at once. Breeding takes wheat, which any farm produces in surplus.

In practice

Mutton doubles from two hunger to six when cooked, one of the larger cooking gains in the game. Since shearing a sheep does not kill it, most mutton comes from deliberate breeding, which means a wool farm and a food farm can share the same pen.