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Cooked Salmon - Every Way to Craft, Find, and Use It in Minecraft

Cooked Salmon is a common food item in Minecraft 1.21.4, obtained without crafting, restoring 6 hunger.

What is Cooked Salmon?

Cooked Salmon is a Minecraft Food with rarity Common. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:cooked_salmon. Command: /give @p minecraft:cooked_salmon 1.

Food properties

  • Restores 6 hunger (3 drumsticks)
  • Saturation: 9.6

Smelting & cooking recipes for Cooked Salmon

Cooked Salmon can be produced by cooking or smelting through one of these paths:

  • Raw Salmon in a Furnace for 10s → 1× Cooked Salmon (0.35 XP)
  • Raw Salmon in a Campfire for 30s → 1× Cooked Salmon (0.35 XP)
  • Raw Salmon in a Smoker for 5s → 1× Cooked Salmon (0.35 XP)

Wiki-verified item facts

  • Renewable: Yes
  • Stack size: 64

Sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Cooked Salmon (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Tags

  • Food
  • Common
  • Non-Craftable
  • Edible

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:cooked_salmon
  • Category: Food
  • Rarity: Common
  • Stack size: 64
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:cooked_salmon 1

Overview

Cooked Salmon is a food item in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers its stack size, crafting recipe, and every recipe that uses it as an ingredient and real nutrition data.

Prerequisites and materials

  • Cooked Salmon cannot be crafted, so plan to mine, fish, trade, or fight for it instead.
  • Check the "Used In Crafting" list on this page to see what it unlocks before farming it in bulk.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Cooked Salmon cannot be crafted, so plan to mine, fish, trade, or fight for it instead.
  2. Check the "Used In Crafting" list on this page to see what it unlocks before farming it in bulk.
  3. Eating Cooked Salmon restores 6 hunger points and 9.6 saturation - best eaten when your hunger bar has room to absorb it.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Use /give @p minecraft:cooked_salmon 1 in a test world to check builds without farming it first.

Pro tips

  • Track your best source and repeat short farming loops instead of one long session.
  • This item belongs to the Food category - related items in that category may share similar crafting paths.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 5-15 min

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get Cooked Salmon?

Cooked Salmon has no crafting recipe in vanilla Minecraft. It's typically obtained through mining, mob drops, chest loot, fishing, or villager trading depending on the item type.

What is the stack size of Cooked Salmon?

Cooked Salmon stacks up to 64 per inventory slot, the standard maximum stack size.

How much hunger does Cooked Salmon restore?

Eating Cooked Salmon restores 6 hunger points and 9.6 saturation (a saturation ratio of 1.6), giving an effective food quality score of 15.6.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Cooked Salmon?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:cooked_salmon, usable in commands such as /give, /clear, and loot tables.

Variants

  • No same-family material variants were detected for Cooked Salmon in the current dataset.

Obtaining

  • Obtaining: no direct crafting or loot table source is currently indexed, so treat this as a progression/utility reference item.

Uses

  • Usage: treat this primarily as a material or utility node in linked crafting and progression systems.

Combat and Stats

  • No direct combat profile is mapped for Cooked Salmon; treat it as utility, progression, or crafting support.

Repairing

  • Repairing data: durability and repair mappings are not present in the current source dataset for Cooked Salmon; verify repair behavior in-game before publishing hard numbers.

Enchantments

  • No dedicated enchantment compatibility categories are currently mapped for this item.

Data Values

  • Internal namespaced ID: minecraft:cooked_salmon.
  • Category classification: Food.
  • Stack size: 64.

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