How to Craft Steak in Minecraft

Steak in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Restores 8 hunger points with 12.8 saturation. Minecraft has used the name Steak since Beta 1.8.

1 Raw Beef goes into the top of a Furnace with fuel underneath, and Steak comes out. You collect 1 Steak when it finishes. Eating one restores 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation.

Steak Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Steak is minecraft:cooked_beef. In commands the namespace may be left off, so cooked_beef works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one: /give @p cooked_beef
Give a full stack of 64: /give @p cooked_beef 64
Give it to a named player: /give Steve cooked_beef 1

Cheats have to be on for Steak to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Steak restores 8 hunger points and 12.8 saturation, making it one of the best foods in the game. Steak is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

Minecraft has used the name Steak since Beta 1.8, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with raw beef (kill cows or mooshrooms).

Counting The Stack

Feed 1 raw beef a craft, so 64 covers 64 of them: 64 steaks. Nothing is wasted: craft 64 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Raw BeefRaw Beef	1x	Kill cows or mooshrooms

Steak needs Raw Beef (kill cows or mooshrooms), worked together at a Furnace.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Open your Furnace interface.
Place Raw Beef in the top input slot.
Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Steak from the output slot.

Minecraft crafting recipe for Steak: 1 x Raw Beef in a furnace, making 1 Steak.

Tips & Notes

Line up 1x Raw Beef before you open the Furnace. Raw Beef: kill cows or mooshrooms.
Dried kelp blocks are the cheapest way to make Steak in bulk, at twenty smelts per block against coal's eight.
There is more than one way to get Steak: the alternative methods further down this page can be quicker depending on what you already have.

Alternative Methods

Smoker

Method 2

Campfire

Method 3

Uses for Steak

Restores 8 hunger points with 12.8 saturation
One of the best food items

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Steak on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Steak in Minecraft?

Bring 1 Raw Beef to a Furnace and you can make Steak. Top slot takes the input, bottom slot the fuel, and one craft produces one Steak.

Where do you find the materials for Steak?

The parts of Steak do not all come from one place. Raw Beef: kill cows or mooshrooms.

How much Steak do you get from one craft?

The Steak recipe makes one Steak per craft.

What is the item ID for Steak in Minecraft?

The Steak item ID is minecraft:cooked_beef, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write cooked_beef on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.

What is the give command for Steak?

The command for Steak is /give @p cooked_beef. Add a number for more than one, so /give @p cooked_beef 64 hands you a full stack, and it only runs with cheats enabled.

Is the Steak recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?

Java and Bedrock agree on Steak: both want 1 Raw Beef at a Furnace in the layout above, and both give one at a time.

What version of Minecraft added Steak?

As far back as the language files go, the steak appears under this name in Minecraft Beta 1.8 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because 1.13 renamed every recipe file in the game. The Steak recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield: 1 Raw Beef in, 1 Steak out, Furnace. Java 26.2, 17 August 2026.
That Bedrock agrees: Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes: Java Beta 1.8 is the earliest release that calls it this. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size, hunger and saturation: The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock: What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum: Counted, not played: 1 Steak per craft against the stack size.

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