Overview
Cooked Salmon restores 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation, which makes it the best fish in the game, better than cooked chicken and level with cooked mutton. Salmon are common in rivers, cold oceans and frozen rivers, and unlike livestock they need no pen, no breeding and no wheat — a river beside a base is a food supply from the first day. They come in three sizes that all drop the same item, and they can be caught with a fishing rod, killed directly in the water, or bucketed and released into a pond you keep at home. Cooking is the only step, and a campfire will do it four items at a time without any fuel at all, which suits a riverside camp. The other use for salmon is taming and healing: raw salmon feeds cats and ocelots, and it is one of the foods dolphins will accept in exchange for guiding you towards the nearest ruin or shipwreck. Keep raw salmon for those jobs and cook the rest. A base on a river bank never really needs a cow pen at all.
The best fish food in the game at 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation, from a source that needs no farm — and, raw, the item that tames cats and befriends dolphins.
As food, Cooked Salmon is judged on two numbers: hunger restored and saturation. It gives back 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation. That saturation ratio puts it among the more efficient foods in the game.
Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot. Look for it in the loot of Buried Treasure. It is smelted from Raw Salmon.
Nothing on the crafting grid is made from it.
How to get it
Smelt raw Salmon in a furnace or smoker at 10 and 5 seconds per item, or cook 4 at a time on a campfire for free. Salmon spawn in rivers and cold oceans and can also be caught with a Fishing Rod.
Tips
- A campfire cooks four salmon at once with no fuel, which is ideal for a riverside camp.
- Feed raw salmon to a dolphin and it leads you towards the nearest shipwreck or ocean ruin.
- Raw salmon tames stray cats near villages; cooked salmon does not work for taming at all.
- Bucket a few salmon into a home pond so you have a permanent supply without a river trip.
Properties
Eating it restores 6 hunger and 9.6 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
- 6
- Saturation
- 9.6
- Saturation ratio
- 1.6
- Category
- Food
How to get it
Furnace · 10s · 0.35 XP
Cooked Salmon
Also works in: Smoker, Campfire
Found in
Cooked Salmon is in the loot tables of Buried Treasure.
- Buried Treasure — A single chest buried beneath a beach or shallow sea bed, findable only with a buried treasure map from a shipwreck or ocean ruin.
How it compares to other foods
Sorted by saturation ratio, Cooked Salmon is 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Rabbit Stew | 10 | 12 | 1.2 |
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Frequently asked questions
How do you make Cooked Salmon in Minecraft?
Cooked Salmon comes out of a Furnace: put Raw Salmon in and let it cook.
What is the stack size of Cooked Salmon?
Cooked Salmon stacks to 64.
Is Cooked Salmon worth eating?
It restores 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation, a ratio of 1.6. That puts it among the best foods in the game for keeping the hunger bar still.
