How to Craft Cooked Salmon in Minecraft

Cooked Salmon restores 6 hunger points and 9.6 saturation.

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. 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 1.7 and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Cooked Salmon.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with raw salmon (fish with a fishing rod or kill salmon). 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 Salmon is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.

Crafting Recipe

Furnace

Fuel

Cooked Salmon

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Raw Salmon	1	Fish with a fishing rod or kill salmon

To make Cooked Salmon you will gather Raw Salmon (fish with a fishing rod or kill salmon). 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 Salmon 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 Salmon 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 Salmon: the alternative methods listed above can be faster depending on which materials you already have on hand.

Alternative Methods

Method 2: Smoker

Ingredients: Raw Salmon

Method 3: Campfire

Ingredients: Raw Salmon

Uses for Cooked Salmon

Restores 6 hunger points

How Cooked Salmon 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 Salmon specifically, that means it is most valuable for 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 Cooked Salmon?

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

Are there alternative ways to get Cooked Salmon?

Yes. Cooked Salmon 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 Salmon does the recipe produce?

The recipe produces a single Cooked Salmon per craft.

What is Cooked Salmon used for?

Cooked Salmon is used for restores 6 hunger points.

What version of Minecraft added Cooked Salmon?

Cooked Salmon was added in Minecraft 1.7 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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