Minecraft Wiki:Projects/Raw and cooked food/Beef

Raw beef is a food item which can be eaten by the player.

Steak (called “cooked beef” in Pocket Edition) is a more nutritious version of raw beef.

Cows and mooshrooms
Raw beef is dropped by cows and mooshrooms when they die. Each animal drops 1 to 3 raw beef. The Looting enchantment will increase the maximum number of possible raw beef drops by 1 per level.

Cows and mooshrooms that die while on fire will drop steak instead.

Cooking
Raw beef can be cooked in a furnace to make steak.

Food
To eat raw beef, press and hold while it is selected in the hotbar. Eating one restores hunger and 1.8 hunger saturation. Eating steak restores hunger and 12.8 saturation.

Wolves
Raw or cooked beef can be used to breed and heal tamed wolves, lead them around, and make baby tamed wolves grow up faster by 10% of the remaining time. Cooked beef restores more health than raw beef.

Trivia

 * In the Xbox 360 edition, the in-game description states that eating raw beef "can make you ill. Cook in a furnace." Despite this, eating raw beef has no effects on the player whatsoever.