Overview
Cooked Beef — steak — restores 8 hunger points and 12.8 saturation, which ties it with cooked porkchop for the most hunger any single food restores, and it is the food most survival players actually live on. The reason is not the numbers so much as the supply chain: cows breed with wheat, a pen of four becomes a pen of twenty in an afternoon, and every cow gives 1 to 3 raw beef plus leather for armour, books and item frames. That makes a cow pen the most useful single structure on a starter base. Smelt the raw beef in a furnace or a smoker — a smoker cooks in half the time — and one stack of coal turns a herd into a chest full of food. It stacks to 64 and never spoils, so a shulker box of steak is standard kit for a long trip. Compared with a golden carrot it restores more hunger and less saturation, so steak is what you eat while working and golden carrots are what you carry when slots are tight.
The everyday food supply for almost every survival world — the best hunger restore in the game, from an animal that also supplies leather and breeds on wheat you already farm.
Steak is a food item that restores hunger when eaten. One serving is worth 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation. On saturation per hunger point it outperforms most alternatives.
It stacks to 64. A furnace turns Raw Beef into it. No recipe takes it as an ingredient.
How to get it
Smelt raw Beef in a furnace, campfire or smoker; a smoker takes 5 seconds per item against a furnace's 10. Cows drop 1 to 3 raw beef each, up to 6 with Looting III.
Tips
- Build the cow pen before the mine: wheat, breeding and a smoker solve food permanently in about ten minutes.
- A smoker cooks food in half the furnace time and takes the same fuel, so it pays for its 8 logs immediately.
- Cook everything before a trip; raw beef restores 3 hunger against steak's 8, which is a wasted slot.
- See animal breeding and food production for pen sizes and breeding cooldowns.
Properties
Eating it restores 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation — a ratio of 1.6, which is what decides how long you stay full rather than how fast the bar refills. One inventory slot holds 64, so a double chest holds 3,456.
- Stack size
- 64
- Hunger restored
- 8
- Saturation
- 12.8
- Saturation ratio
- 1.6
- Category
- Food
How to get it
Furnace · 10s · 0.35 XP
Steak
Also works in: Smoker, Campfire
How it compares to other foods
Sorted by saturation ratio, Steak is 5 of 41 foods in the game. Ratio is saturation divided by hunger restored: it is what decides how long the hunger bar stays still, not how fast it refills.
Golden Carrot leads the list at a ratio of 2.4, and anything at or above 1.6 is worth carrying on a long trip.
| Item | Hunger restored | Saturation | Saturation ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enchanted Golden Apple | 4 | 9.6 | 2.4 |
| Cooked Porkchop | 8 | 12.8 | 1.6 |
| Steak ← | 8 | 12.8 | 1.6 |
| Cooked Salmon | 6 | 9.6 | 1.6 |
| Cooked Mutton | 6 | 9.6 | 1.6 |
| Spider Eye | 2 | 3.2 | 1.6 |
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make Steak in Minecraft?
Steak comes out of a Furnace: put Raw Beef in and let it cook.
What is the stack size of Steak?
Steak stacks to 64.
Is Steak worth eating?
It restores 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation, a ratio of 1.6. That puts it among the best foods in the game for keeping the hunger bar still.
