How to Cook Meat in Minecraft

Last Updated: August 6, 2020

There are two benefits to cooking meat in Minecraft instead of eating it raw. The first one is that you won't get food poisoning, a status effect that will hurt your health and hunger bars, which is quite contrary to what you want. The second is that you gain more hunger bars after eating cooked meat rather than raw meat. Don't be stingy with your coal (or any other fuel) and start cooking the meat!

Steps

1
Obtain some meat from an animal (pig, sheep, chicken, or cow).
2
Make a pickaxe and mine some cobblestone. Harvest some wood and craft a crafting table.

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3
Tap on the crafting table. Use the cobblestone to make a furnace.
4
Use your pickaxe to mine some coal or make some charcoal out of wood.
5
Put the coal and the meat (pork, chicken, or beef) in the furnace. Wait until the arrow on the side of the screen is full. That means the meat is cooked.
6
Put the cooked meat in your inventory.

Community Q&A

Question

How can I craft an item frame?

Community Answer

Get eight sticks. Put them in the border of the crafting table boxes and put a piece of leather in the middle.
Question

How do I eat food if there are ads that block the spot I need to click?

Ellie

Community Answer

Ads usually have a X or something that you can press to make them go away. Press that, and the ads should go away.
Question

How do I eat on Minecraft?

Community Answer

Hold down the button that you place blocks with. This won't work in Creative Mode.