Minecraft: How To Cook Food

By Saad Asif / Minecraft / April 5, 2025

Here’s how you can cook food in Minecraft.

Minecraft Furnace — Cooking food in the furnace (Image via Mojang)

Minecraft has the most versatile methods for players to survive impossible situations. However, to keep a consistent play style, you have to be ready to face your worst enemies and stock up on food that you can cook.

Cooking is one of the easiest and most essential ways to keep your energy up, allowing you to run away from dangers. If you’re unfamiliar with the cooking process in Minecraft, you’re at the right place. Here’s everything you can cook in the game and how to do it.

Cooking Food in Minecraft

Chicken — Baking chicken in Minecraft (Image via Mojang)

Minecraft lets you cook a wide variety of foods. From bread to cakes, you can prepare a galore of your favorite items. Each one requires a different cooking method. Here’s a list of all the food you can cook:

All Food and Its Methods:

Food	Cooking Method
Bread	You can craft Bread with three wheat.
Cake	A cake can be made with two sugars, one egg, three milk buckets, and three wheat.
Cookie	For a Cookie, you will need one cocoa bean and two wheat.
Baked Potato	After harvesting a potato from your farm, you can bake it in the furnace using coal.
Rabbit Stew	A cake can be made with two sugars, one egg, three milk buckets, and three wheat.
Beetroot Soup	Six beetroots, one bowl.
Popped Chorus Fruit	It can be made simply by baking the Chorus Fruit in the furnace.
Pumpkin Pie	Mix one sugar, one egg, and one pumpkin.
Golden Carrot	Eight golden nuggets and one carrot.
Golden Apple	Eight gold ingots and one apple.
Mushroom Stew	One bowl, one red mushroom, and one brown mushroom.
Steak	Retrieve the Cow meat and bake it in the furnace.
Cooked Chicken	Retrieve the Chicken meat and bake it in the furnace.
Cooked Rabbit	Retrieve the Rabbit meat and bake it in the furnace.
Cooked Cod	Use the fishing rod to catch a Cod and bake it in the furnace.
Cooked Salmon	Use the fishing rod to catch a Salmon and bake it in the furnace.
Milk Bucket	Craft a bucket from the crafting table and interact with it on a cow.
Melon Seeds	Put one watermelon slice on the crafting table.
Honey Bottle	Craft an empty bottle and interact with a Bee Nest.
Dried Kelp	One kelp and one dried kelp block.
Pumpkin Seed	Put one pumpkin on the crafting table.
Sugar	Two sugar canes.
Cooked Mutton	Retrieve the Goatmeat and bake it in the furnace.
Cooked Porkchop	Retrieve the Pig meat and bake it in the furnace.

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