The Cooking Pot is a kitchen block from the Farmer’s Delight mod that you’ll use to turn up to six ingredients into one meal, like 
Beef Stew, 
Fried Rice or 
Hot Cocoa. It needs heat from the block underneath it, so it’s usually sat on top of a 
Stove or a 
Campfire, and most of the bigger meals in the mod will have to go through it at some point.
Meals made in the pot are a lot more filling than plain cooked meat, and most of them will give you the Nourishment effect as well, which stops your hunger from going down for a while. The pot also keeps whatever it has cooked inside itself when you break it, so you’re able to carry a whole batch of stew around in one slot.
Crafting
The Cooking Pot is crafted from 5 
Iron Ingots, 2 
Bricks, a 
Wooden Shovel and a 
Water Bucket. You’ll get the empty 
Bucket back once it’s crafted, so the water is the only part of the bucket that’s used up, and the 
Bricks come from smelting 
Clay Balls.
If you’re not ready to spend the iron yet, there’s a 12.5% chance of finding a Cooking Pot in the extra loot Farmer’s Delight adds to Abandoned Mineshaft chests. It’s the same pool that can hold a 
Skillet, though, so you’ll only ever find one of the two in a single chest.
Heat Sources
The pot won’t cook anything unless the block right below it is hot, and the screen will tell you that it needs heat from below until it is. Lit blocks like Campfires and the Stove will have to be burning, as an unlit one won’t count, whereas Lava and 
Magma Blocks are always hot.
| Heat Source | Has to Be Lit | Shows a Tray |
|---|---|---|
| Stove | Yes | No |
| Campfire and Soul Campfire | Yes | Yes |
| Fire and Soul Fire | No | Yes |
| Lava | No | Yes |
| Lava Cauldron | No | No |
| Magma Block | No | No |
Over a Campfire, Fire or Lava, the pot will sit on a little metal tray instead of on the ground. The Stove tends to be the easiest choice, as it’s a full block that never goes out on its own, and it’s able to cook a few things of its own when the pot isn’t on top of it.
Hiding the Heat
Heat is able to travel through one 
Hopper as well, so a pot with a Hopper under it and a heat source under that will still cook. It’s handy for hiding a Campfire under the floor of a kitchen, and the Hopper can feed the pot at the same time, which comes in useful for automating it.
Sneak and right-click the pot with an empty hand to switch it to its hanging look, with a handle over the top, and do the same again to switch it back. Placing the pot against the underside of a block will hang it straight away, though it still needs heat below it to cook.
How to Use It
Right-clicking the pot opens a screen with six ingredient slots, a meal slot in the middle, a container slot and an output slot. Ingredients can go in any slot and in any order, as the pot only cares about what’s in there, not where you’ve put it.
Cooking a Meal
Once the ingredients match a recipe and the pot is heated, the arrow will start to fill up, and most meals take about 10 seconds. 
Cooked Rice and 
Tomato Sauce are quicker at around 5 seconds, while the 
Stuffed Pumpkin takes 20 seconds, and the pot will keep cooking batch after batch until you run out of ingredients.
If the heat goes out before the meal is done, the arrow will start to go back down, and it drains twice as fast as it filled, so you’ll want to relight it quickly. Some ingredients, like a 
Milk Bucket, will leave an empty Bucket behind, and the pot will throw it out of its side when the meal is finished.
Serving
Most finished meals sit in the middle slot until there’s a container to serve them in, which is usually a 
Bowl, a 
Glass Bottle for drinks, or a 
Pumpkin for the Stuffed Pumpkin. The slot under the arrow shows which one it wants, and putting a stack of them in the container slot will serve everything at once.
You don’t have to open the screen at all, as right-clicking the pot while holding the right container will hand you a serving straight away. Meals that don’t need a container, like 
Dumplings and 
Cabbage Rolls, skip the middle slot and drop straight into the output slot instead.
Carrying a Full Pot
The middle slot of the pot is able to hold up to 64 servings of a meal, even though most of these meals will only stack to 16 in your inventory. If you break the pot, it will keep the meal inside it, and the item will show a bar for how full it is, but anything in the other slots will drop.
You can serve from a pot that’s in your inventory too, by putting it in a crafting grid with one of its containers. Each time you craft it you’ll get one serving, and the pot will go back in your inventory with one less inside, which is handy when you’re away from your kitchen.
Automating It
If you put a Hopper on top of the pot, it will fill the ingredient slots, and a Hopper pointing into one of the sides will fill the container slot with Bowls. A Hopper under the pot will pull the finished meals out and pass them on to a 
Chest. Heat can travel through that Hopper too, so the Campfire or Stove is able to go right under it.
A 
Redstone Comparator is able to read how full the pot is as well, which comes in useful if you want to turn the Hoppers off once a batch is done. Each Hopper will only ever touch the slots it’s meant for, so the one at the bottom won’t pull your ingredients out by mistake.
If you’re playing with Create, the Create Slice & Dice add-on is able to take over the 
Cutting Board side of your kitchen, and Autochef’s Delight lets the pot use several of the same ingredient from one stacked slot. That makes a pot fed by Hoppers a lot easier to keep going, as one stack can cover a whole batch.
Recipes
The pot has 25 meals of its own, and you’re able to make the vanilla 
Mushroom Stew, 
Beetroot Soup and 
Rabbit Stew in it as well, which is handy if you’ve already got the pot going. You’ll find all of the ingredients for each one of them on the Recipes page.
| Food Page | Dishes | Served In |
|---|---|---|
| Soups and Stews | Beef Stew, Chicken Soup, Vegetable Soup, Fish Stew, Pumpkin Soup, Baked Cod Stew, Noodle Soup, Onion Soup, Bone Broth, Mushroom Stew, Beetroot Soup, Rabbit Stew | Bowl |
| Pasta and Rice Dishes | Cooked Rice, Fried Rice, Mushroom Rice, Pasta with Meatballs, Pasta with Mutton Chop, Squid Ink Pasta, Vegetable Noodles, Ratatouille | Bowl |
| Pasta and Rice Dishes | Cabbage Rolls, Dumplings (2 per batch) | Nothing |
| Drinks | Hot Cocoa, Apple Cider | Glass Bottle |
| Pies and Desserts | Glow Berry Custard | Glass Bottle |
| Feasts | Stuffed Pumpkin | Pumpkin |
| Ingredients | Tomato Sauce | Bowl |
| Dog Food and Horse Feed | Dog Food | Bowl |
You’ll find how much each one will fill you up on the Soups and Stews and Pasta and Rice Dishes pages. The Stuffed Pumpkin is one of the Feasts, as it’s a big meal that you’ll place down as a block and then take servings from with a Bowl, a bit like you would with a 
Cake.
The pot has its own recipe book, split into Meals, Drinks and Misc tabs, so you won’t need to remember every ingredient. Once a recipe is unlocked, clicking it in the book will fill the slots for you from your inventory, as long as you’re carrying everything it needs.
FAQ
The pot needs heat right below it, so make sure the Campfire or Stove under it is lit, as an unlit one won’t work. If it’s hot and it still won’t cook, then the ingredients don’t make a recipe, or there’s a different meal still in the middle slot that you’ll need to take out first.
Most meals will stay in the middle slot until you give the pot the container they’re served in, like a Bowl, a Glass Bottle or a Pumpkin. Put a few of them in the container slot, or right-click the pot while you’re holding one, and the servings will come out, either into the output slot or straight into your hand.
The pot only takes its own recipes, so a single 
Raw Beef or a Porkchop won’t cook in it at all. Food like that will need to go on the Stove, a Skillet or a Campfire instead, as they all use the Campfire recipes, whereas the pot is for meals that are made from a few ingredients.
It does, as the experience is saved up inside the pot until you take the meals out of the output slot, or until you break it, and then it will all pop out at once. Bigger meals will give you more of it than simple ones, so a Stuffed Pumpkin is worth a lot more than a bowl of Cooked Rice.
