Steak
Material Stack: 64 Since Beta 1.8 (Adventure Update)
Quick answer: Cook raw beef in a furnace, smoker or campfire - each steak pulled from a furnace also gives 0.35 XP.
How to get it
- Cook raw beef in a furnace, smoker or campfire - each steak pulled from a furnace also gives 0.35 XP
- Kill cows and mooshrooms: 1-3 raw beef, +1 per Looting level. If they die by fire, they drop steak directly
- Loot village butcher chests, and on Java butcher villagers gift steak to players with Hero of the Village
Uses
- One of the best staple foods: 8 hunger and 12.8 saturation per piece - tied with cooked porkchop as the strongest common meat
- Breed, heal, lead and speed up the growth of tamed wolves
- Cow farms double as food and leather production, so steak is the natural mid-game food
Renewability
Renewable: cow farms produce unlimited beef.
Java vs Bedrock
Identical in Java and Bedrock.
Related: BreadCooked PorkchopHoneycomb