Steak

Steak (also known as Cooked Beef) is a food item dropped by cows and mooshrooms set alight or obtained by cooking Raw Beef in a furnace. Each Steak restores 4 units to the Food Bar and 12.8 hunger saturation.

Cooking
Alternatively, the player can use a flint and steel to set cows on fire to collect ready-cooked Steak, or use a suitably-enchanted Sword or Bow. More rarely, they may be found dropped in the wake of a forest fire or nearby surface lava pools.

Advantages

 * Given a decent stock of raw beef, Steak can be produced as needed using a furnace and sticks in a matter of seconds.
 * Steak restores more units and saturation than all other food items save for cooked porkchop which has equal values, and cake which restores more hunger but provides significantly less saturation.
 * More Steak can be acquired per cow than cooked porkchop acquired per pig, and cows also produce leather.

Disadvantages

 * As with Raw Beef, Steak's availability is dependent on the presence of cows or mooshrooms within sight, which can be random at best and require extensive traveling depending on the biome the player spawns in. Once at least two cows have been found, however, they can be bred for an easy and infinite supply of beef and steak, but you'll need a amount of wheat.

Trivia

 * The steak's texture used to be the original texture for Cooked Porkchop. This changed with the 1.8 Adventure Update, which added both steak and Chicken as obtainable foods. The cooked porkchop texture was then changed to a lighter version of the same basic shape.

History
Steak was introduced in the Beta 1.8 update as the cooked result of Raw Beef, a new food item dropped by cows in addition to their leather. The icon for Steak was used as the image for the Cooked Porkchop before Beta 1.8 (the cooked porkchop's icon was updated to a lighter colored piece of meat).

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