How to Get Cooked Salmon in Minecraft

Guide Java Bedrock

Quick answer: Kill a salmon to get 1 raw salmon, then cook it in a furnace, smoker or campfire. Cooked salmon restores 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation. You can also catch raw fish by fishing.

What you need

Furnace, smoker or campfire
Fuel
Fishing rod (optional)

Step by step

Find salmon in the water and kill one. It drops 1 raw salmon, whatever the Looting level.
Or go fishing: see the fishing guide linked below.
Cook the raw salmon in a furnace, smoker or campfire. Each piece taken from a furnace output slot gives 0.35 experience (22.4 per stack).
Eat the cooked salmon for 6 hunger and 9.6 saturation.

Java vs Bedrock

Each piece taken from a furnace output slot gives 0.35 experience.

Versions: A salmon always drops 1 raw salmon regardless of Looting.

Frequently asked questions

How much hunger does cooked salmon restore?

6 hunger and 9.6 saturation.

How many raw salmon does a salmon drop?

Always 1, Looting does not change it.

How do I cook it?

In a furnace, smoker or campfire.