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How to Craft Cooked Mutton in Minecraft

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

To get Cooked Mutton you heat 1 Raw Mutton in a Furnace. There is no pattern to copy, only the input slot and a fuel slot. Each round in there leaves you with 1 Cooked Mutton. Eating one restores 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation.

Cooked Mutton Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Cooked Mutton restores 6 hunger points and 9.6 saturation. Cooked Mutton is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid.

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

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with raw mutton (kill sheep).

The Yield Per Stack

Bring 64 raw muttons, leave with 64 cooked muttons, after 64 rounds of 1 for 1. Craft 64 clears the box of raw mutton.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Raw MuttonRaw MuttonRaw Mutton1xKill sheep

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

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Open your Furnace interface.
  2. Place Raw Mutton 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 Mutton from the output slot.
Minecraft crafting recipe for Cooked Mutton: 1 x Raw Mutton in a furnace, making 1 Cooked Mutton.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 1x Raw Mutton. Start with the Raw Mutton: kill sheep.
  • Dried kelp blocks are the cheapest way to make Cooked Mutton in bulk, at twenty smelts per block against coal's eight.
  • There is more than one way to get Cooked Mutton: the alternative methods further down this page can be quicker depending on what you already have.

Alternative Methods

Smoker
Raw MuttonRaw Mutton
Cooked MuttonCooked Mutton
Method 2
Campfire
Raw MuttonRaw Mutton
Cooked MuttonCooked Mutton
Method 3

Uses for Cooked Mutton

  • Restores 6 hunger points

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Cooked Mutton in Minecraft?
The list for Cooked Mutton is short: 1 Raw Mutton, worked at a Furnace. The input goes in the top slot, the fuel in the one below, and one craft produces one Cooked Mutton.
Where do you find the materials for Cooked Mutton?
Cooked Mutton draws its parts from several different places. Raw Mutton: kill sheep.
How much Cooked Mutton do you get from one craft?
The Cooked Mutton recipe makes one Cooked Mutton per craft.
What is the item ID for Cooked Mutton in Minecraft?
The Cooked Mutton item ID is minecraft:cooked_mutton, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write cooked_mutton on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for Cooked Mutton?
Cooked Mutton needs nothing you have to go find: raw mutton from sheep you can breed. Set those up once and you can keep making cooked mutton.
What is the give command for Cooked Mutton?
Use /give @p cooked_mutton to put Cooked Mutton in your own inventory, or /give @p cooked_mutton 64 for a full stack of 64. Cheats have to be on.
Is the Cooked Mutton recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Cooked Mutton works the same on both: 1 Raw Mutton at a Furnace, the same pattern, one at a time, whether you are on Java or Bedrock.
How do you unlock the Cooked Mutton recipe in the recipe book?
The Cooked Mutton recipe appears in your recipe book the moment you pick up Mutton 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 Mutton?
Minecraft 1.8 is the oldest release that calls the cooked mutton by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because 1.13 renamed every recipe file in the game. The current release still makes Cooked Mutton exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Raw Mutton in, 1 Cooked Mutton 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 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 Mutton per craft against the stack size.

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