Overview
Cooked Porkchop restores 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation, matching steak exactly, and it comes from an animal that is easier to find in the early game than cows are in some biomes. Pigs breed with carrots, potatoes or beetroot, so a player who has found a village garden has a food supply immediately; they drop 1 to 3 raw porkchops each, up to 6 with Looting III. Where they differ from cows is what else they provide: pigs give no leather, so a herd is food only, but a pig with a saddle and a Carrot on a Stick is also a rideable mount, which is a genuinely funny way to get around a starter base. Cook the raw meat in a smoker for 5 seconds per item rather than a furnace's 10. Beyond that the advice is the same as for any meat: cook everything before a trip, since raw porkchop restores 3 hunger against the cooked version's 8, and stack the results in a shulker box for long journeys. Whichever animal your world gave you first is the one you should be farming.
A top-tier everyday food identical to steak in both bars, from an animal that breeds on the vegetables a village garden already provides. Identical numbers, different farm entirely.
Cooked Porkchop is edible, and how much it is worth depends on its saturation as much as its hunger value. Eating it restores 8 hunger points and 12.8 saturation. It is one of the better foods to carry on a long trip.
A full stack holds 64. It is smelted from Raw Porkchop. Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
How to get it
Smelt raw Porkchop in a smoker, furnace or campfire. Pigs drop 1 to 3 raw porkchops each and breed with carrots, potatoes or beetroot — 2 vegetables produce 1 piglet.
Tips
- Pigs breed with carrots, potatoes and beetroot, so a raided village garden is an instant food supply.
- A smoker halves cooking time; a campfire cooks four items at once with no fuel if you are camping.
- Raw porkchop restores 3 hunger against 8 cooked, so never eat it uncooked unless you are desperate.
- Ride a saddled pig with a Carrot on a Stick — impractical, but it is an achievement.
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
Cooked Porkchop
Also works in: Smoker, Campfire
How it compares to other foods
Sorted by saturation ratio, Cooked Porkchop is 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Apple | 4 | 9.6 | 2.4 |
| 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 |
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make Cooked Porkchop in Minecraft?
Cooked Porkchop comes out of a Furnace: put Raw Porkchop in and let it cook.
What is the stack size of Cooked Porkchop?
Cooked Porkchop stacks to 64.
Is Cooked Porkchop 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.
