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How to Craft Cooked Salmon in Minecraft

Cooked Salmon in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Restores 6 hunger points. Minecraft has used the name Cooked Salmon since 1.7.2.

1 Raw Salmon goes into the top of a Furnace with fuel underneath, and a Cooked Salmon comes out. Out the other side: 1 Cooked Salmon. On the food bar that is 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation.

Cooked Salmon Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Minecraft has used the name Cooked Salmon since 1.7.2, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with raw salmon (fish with a fishing rod or kill salmon).

Counting The Stack

Feed 1 raw salmon a craft, so 64 covers 64 of them: 64 cooked salmons. It divides evenly, no raw salmon left over.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Raw SalmonRaw SalmonRaw Salmon1xFish with a fishing rod or kill salmon

Gather Raw Salmon (fish with a fishing rod or kill salmon), then take the lot to a Furnace.

Step-by-Step Instructions

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

Tips & Notes

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

Alternative Methods

Smoker
Raw SalmonRaw Salmon
Cooked SalmonCooked Salmon
Method 2
Campfire
Raw SalmonRaw Salmon
Cooked SalmonCooked Salmon
Method 3

Uses for Cooked Salmon

  • Restores 6 hunger points

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Cooked Salmon in Minecraft?
1 Raw Salmon at a Furnace: that is the whole shopping list for a Cooked Salmon. Put the input in the top slot and fuel underneath, and one craft produces one Cooked Salmon.
Where do you find the materials for a Cooked Salmon?
A Cooked Salmon draws its parts from several different places. Raw Salmon: fish with a fishing rod or kill salmon.
How many Cooked Salmon do you get from one craft?
The Cooked Salmon recipe makes one Cooked Salmon per craft.
What is the item ID for Cooked Salmon in Minecraft?
The Cooked Salmon item ID is minecraft:cooked_salmon, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write cooked_salmon on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
Can you farm everything you need for a Cooked Salmon?
Cooked Salmon needs nothing you have to go find: raw salmon from fishing. Set those up once and you can keep making cooked salmon.
What is the give command for Cooked Salmon?
/give @p cooked_salmon gives you a Cooked Salmon. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
Is the Cooked Salmon recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
No difference to worry about: a Cooked Salmon takes 1 Raw Salmon at a Furnace on Java and on Bedrock alike, one at a time.
How do you unlock the Cooked Salmon recipe in the recipe book?
The Cooked Salmon recipe appears in your recipe book the moment you pick up a Salmon 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 the Cooked Salmon?
As far back as the language files go, the cooked salmon appears under this name in Minecraft 1.7.2 and not before. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because 1.13 renamed every recipe file in the game. Today the game builds it from 1 Raw Salmon, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Raw Salmon in, 1 Cooked Salmon 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 1.7.2 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 Salmon per craft against the stack size.

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