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How to Craft Cooked Chicken in Minecraft

Cooked Chicken in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Restores 6 hunger points. Minecraft has used the name Cooked Chicken since Beta 1.8.

This one is smelted rather than crafted: 1 Raw Chicken in a Furnace, fuel below it, no grid involved. You collect 1 Cooked Chicken when it finishes. It puts 6 hunger back, with 7.2 saturation behind it.

Cooked Chicken Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Cooked Chicken restores 6 hunger points and 7.2 saturation. Cooked Chicken is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

Minecraft has used the name Cooked Chicken 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 chicken (kill chickens).

What A Stack Yields

Work a stack down, 64 raw chickens, and you land on 64 cooked chickens. Craft 64 clears the box of raw chicken.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Raw ChickenRaw ChickenRaw Chicken1xKill chickens

To make Cooked Chicken you will gather Raw Chicken (kill chickens), and craft them at a Furnace.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Open your Furnace interface.
  2. Place Raw Chicken in the top input slot.
  3. Add fuel (coal, charcoal, wood, etc.) to the bottom fuel slot.
  4. Wait for the smelting progress bar to complete. Collect your Cooked Chicken from the output slot.
Minecraft crafting recipe for Cooked Chicken: 1 x Raw Chicken in a furnace, making 1 Cooked Chicken.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 1x Raw Chicken before you open the Furnace. Raw Chicken: kill chickens.
  • One piece of coal or charcoal smelts eight of these, so a single coal covers 8 Cooked Chicken; a dried kelp block does twenty at a time and is renewable.
  • There is more than one way to get Cooked Chicken: the alternative methods further down this page can be quicker depending on what you already have.

Alternative Methods

Smoker
Raw ChickenRaw Chicken
Cooked ChickenCooked Chicken
Method 2
Campfire
Raw ChickenRaw Chicken
Cooked ChickenCooked Chicken
Method 3

Uses for Cooked Chicken

  • Restores 6 hunger points
  • Wolves can be healed with cooked chicken

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Cooked Chicken in Minecraft?
Bring 1 Raw Chicken to a Furnace and you can make Cooked Chicken. Top slot takes the input, bottom slot the fuel, and one craft produces one Cooked Chicken.
Where do you find the materials for Cooked Chicken?
The materials for Cooked Chicken each come from somewhere different. Raw Chicken: kill chickens.
How much Cooked Chicken do you get from one craft?
The Cooked Chicken recipe makes one Cooked Chicken per craft.
What is the item ID for Cooked Chicken in Minecraft?
Cooked Chicken is registered as minecraft:cooked_chicken. Commands accept the short form cooked_chicken as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for Cooked Chicken?
Cooked Chicken needs nothing you have to go find: raw chicken from chickens you can breed. Set those up once and you can keep making cooked chicken.
What is the give command for Cooked Chicken?
Use /give @p cooked_chicken to put Cooked Chicken in your own inventory, or /give @p cooked_chicken 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Cooked Chicken recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Raw Chicken at a Furnace gives you Cooked Chicken, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
How do you unlock the Cooked Chicken recipe in the recipe book?
The Cooked Chicken recipe appears in your recipe book the moment you pick up Chicken in Java Edition. Until then it stays hidden, even though the craft itself works if you already know the grid.
What version of Minecraft added Cooked Chicken?
Minecraft Beta 1.8 is the earliest release that spells out cooked chicken. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because 1.13 renamed every recipe file in the game. What you see in the grid above is how it works in the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Raw Chicken in, 1 Cooked Chicken out, Furnace. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java Beta 1.8 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
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 Cooked Chicken per craft against the stack size.

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