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Find out how to make a smoker in Minecraft, use it to cook food at a faster rate, and discover its salient features.
Minecraft has several specialized job-site blocks that help ease routine work like crafting, cooking, and smelting. The stonecutter streamlines the myriad of stone-type block crafting recipes, the blast furnace speeds up the smelting of ores, and its counterpart — a smoker — cooks food twice as fast as a furnace. While the smoker’s efficiency doesn’t extend to fuel usage, it does save time and adds a layer of complexity to your setup.
Smoker Crafting Ingredients
To craft a smoker, you’ll only need a couple of basic materials, both of which are easily accessible in the early stages of the game.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Furnace x 1: To make a furnace, collect 8 cobblestones and arrange them in a square around the edges of a crafting table’s grid, leaving the center empty.
- Wood Logs x 4: Any type of log will work, including stripped logs and stripped wood. These can be collected by chopping down trees, preferably with an axe.
Once you’ve got these materials, you’re ready to put your smoker together.
Smoker Crafting Recipe
Open your crafting table and place the furnace in the center slot. Put the wood logs on the top, bottom, left, and right sides of the furnace. The crafting grid layout should look like this:
- Top Row: (empty) | Log | (empty)
- Middle Row: Log | Furnace | Log
- Bottom Row: (empty) | Log | (empty)
This recipe will give you one smoker. Once crafted, you can place it anywhere, ideally near your food storage or cooking area. Smokers can be found in a butcher’s house. Unlike the furnace, a smoker is best broken with an axe rather than a pickaxe.
How to Use a Smoker in Minecraft
The smoker functions similarly to a furnace, but with a key difference — it cooks food items twice as fast. Whether it’s raw beef, fish, or even potatoes, the smoker speeds up the cooking process. To use it:
- Right-click to open the smoker’s interface.
- Place a raw food item in the top slot.
- Add a fuel source (like coal or wood) in the bottom slot.
Tips and lesser-known features:
- A smoker can be used to assign a job to an unemployed villager, turning them into a butcher.
- It cannot smelt ores or other non-food items — that’s still the furnace’s job.
- You can change a smoker’s name by placing it in an anvil and spending one level of experience points.
- The smoker cooks twice as fast but uses fuel at twice the rate, making it only faster than a furnace and not more fuel efficient.
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