Cooking in Minecraft is the process of combining raw food items to create new and more nutritious food items. Cooking food provides several benefits, such as restoring more hunger points, increasing the player’s saturation, and removing hunger effects. To cook food, players can use a furnace, a campfire, or a smoker, each of which has its own unique benefits and drawbacks.
Furnaces are the most common way to cook food in Minecraft. They can be crafted from eight cobblestone blocks and are fueled by any type of fuel, such as coal, wood, or lava. Furnaces cook food at a rate of one item per second, and they can cook up to 64 items at a time. Campfires are another option for cooking food. They can be crafted from three logs and one coal or charcoal, and they can cook food at a rate of one item per two seconds. Campfires can also be used to cook multiple items at the same time, but they have a smaller capacity than furnaces.