How to Craft Cooked Porkchop in Minecraft

Cooked Porkchop restores 8 hunger points and 12.8 saturation, tied with steak for best food stats.

Overview

Cooked Porkchop restores 8 hunger points and 12.8 saturation, tied with steak for best food stats. Cooked Porkchop is produced by smelting in a Furnace rather than by arranging items in a grid. A Furnace smelts one item at a time using a fuel slot. Coal, charcoal, dried kelp blocks, lava buckets, and any wood all work as fuel, with each piece of coal smelting eight items.

The recipe was added in Minecraft Alpha and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Cooked Porkchop.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with raw porkchop (kill pigs). If any of those are not already in your stores, gather them first, because the craft itself takes only a moment once everything is in the grid. With the ingredients on hand and a Furnace placed, Cooked Porkchop is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.

Crafting Recipe

Furnace

Fuel

Cooked Porkchop

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Raw Porkchop	1	Kill pigs

To make Cooked Porkchop you will gather Raw Porkchop (kill pigs). Lining these up before you open the Furnace saves a trip back to storage, especially if you plan to craft several at once.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Open your Furnace interface.
Place Raw Porkchop 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 Cooked Porkchop from the output slot.

Tips & Notes

Fuel efficiency matters: a single piece of coal or charcoal smelts eight items, while a dried kelp block smelts twenty, making kelp blocks the cheapest renewable fuel for large batches.
There is more than one way to obtain Cooked Porkchop: the alternative methods listed above can be faster depending on which materials you already have on hand.

Alternative Methods

Method 2: Smoker

Ingredients: Raw Porkchop

Method 3: Campfire

Ingredients: Raw Porkchop

Uses for Cooked Porkchop

Restores 8 hunger points with 12.8 saturation

How Cooked Porkchop Fits Your World

Food restores hunger and the saturation that quietly regenerates your health, and different foods restore very different amounts. Bread and cooked meats are reliable staples, golden carrots and steak offer the best saturation for long expeditions, and golden apples provide absorption hearts and regeneration for emergencies. Keeping a stack of a high-saturation food on your hotbar is one of the simplest ways to survive longer. For Cooked Porkchop specifically, that means it is most valuable for restores 8 hunger points with 12.8 saturation.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Cooked Porkchop?

You need 1 Raw Porkchop, made at a Furnace. Gather all of the materials first, then place them following the recipe above to produce the Cooked Porkchop.

Are there alternative ways to get Cooked Porkchop?

Yes. Cooked Porkchop can also be obtained using a Smoker or Campfire. The alternative methods section above lists the exact ingredients for each, so you can pick whichever suits the materials you already have.

How many Cooked Porkchop does the recipe produce?

The recipe produces a single Cooked Porkchop per craft.

What is Cooked Porkchop used for?

Cooked Porkchop is used for restores 8 hunger points with 12.8 saturation.

What version of Minecraft added Cooked Porkchop?

Cooked Porkchop was added in Minecraft Alpha and works the same way in the current 1.21 release. Recipes for it are identical across Java and Bedrock Edition unless noted otherwise.

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