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Where to Find Cooked Beef in Minecraft

A high-quality food obtained by cooking raw beef in a furnace, smoker, or campfire. Restores significant hunger.

Primary Location

Plains

Difficulty

Very Easy (1/5)

Version Added

1.0

Stack Size

64

Where to Look

Biomes & Dimensions

  • Plains
  • Forest
  • Taiga
  • Savanna
  • Meadow
  • Sunflower Plains

How to Get Cooked Beef

  1. 1Cook Raw Beef in a Furnace, Smoker, or Campfire
  2. 2Raw Beef dropped by Cows (1-3 per kill)
  3. 3Killing a Cow with a Fire Aspect sword directly drops Cooked Beef

Tips for Finding Cooked Beef

  • Cows spawn in most grassy Overworld biomes, especially Plains and Forests
  • Breed cows with Wheat for a renewable beef farm
  • Cooked Beef restores 8 hunger (4 drumsticks) and 12.8 saturation, among the best foods
  • Use a Smoker for 2x faster cooking speed compared to a regular furnace
  • Mooshrooms (Mushroom Fields biome) also drop Raw Beef

Additional Notes

Also known as Steak. One of the best food sources in the game for hunger and saturation.

Food Value

Hunger Restored

8 (4 drumsticks)

Saturation

12.8

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