Cut Meat and Fish

Cut Meat and Fish are the smaller pieces of meat from the Farmer’s Delight mod, which you’ll get by cutting vanilla meat and fish on a Cutting Board with a Knife. There are five of them, Raw Bacon, Raw Chicken Cuts, Raw Cod Slices, Raw Salmon Slices and Raw Mutton Chops, and each one has a cooked version as well.

Every whole piece will give you 2 cuts, and the cuts are quick to eat, at half the time of normal food. They’re also used in a lot of the mod’s recipes, and since a single cut counts as a whole piece of meat in most of them, cutting your meat first is an easy way to get twice as many meals out of the same animals.

Cutting Meat and Fish

To cut something, you’ll place it on a Cutting Board and then right-click the board with a Knife in your hand, and the pieces will pop out on top. Chicken and fish will also give you a Bone Meal each time, whereas Pork and Mutton only give the cuts, and you’re able to cut meat that’s already been cooked too.

Raw Bacon

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Raw Chicken Cuts

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Raw Mutton Chops

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A Raw Porkchop turns into 2 Raw Bacon and a Raw Chicken into 2 Raw Chicken Cuts and a Bone Meal, whereas Raw Mutton will only give you the 2 chops. Fish work the same way as Chicken, as every Raw Cod or Raw Salmon gives 2 slices and a Bone Meal, and you’ll get cooked slices instead if the fish was cooked before it went on the board.

Raw Cod Slice

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Raw Salmon Slice

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There’s no recipe for cutting a Cooked Porkchop, so if you want Cooked Bacon, you’ll need to cut the Porkchop raw and then cook the bacon. Beef works differently as well, as Raw Beef turns into Minced Beef instead, which is on the Ingredients page along with the Beef Patty.

Cooking the Cuts

Every raw cut can be cooked the same way as the meat it came from, in a Furnace, a Smoker or on a Campfire. They’ll cook on a Skillet or a Stove as well, and the Smoker is the fastest of the vanilla options, at half the time a Furnace takes.

Cooked Bacon

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Cooked Chicken Cuts

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Cooked Cod Slice

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Cooked Mutton Chops

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You’ll get the same 2 cooked pieces whether you cut the meat first or cook it first. It’s quicker to cook it first though, as it takes a Furnace just as long to cook one slice as it does to cook a whole fish, so cooking the fish and then cutting it into Cooked Salmon Slices will only use half the fuel.

Cooked Salmon Slice

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The cooked cuts are what most of the crafted meals want, like Cooked Bacon for the Bacon Sandwich and Bacon and Eggs, or Cooked Mutton Chops for Roasted Mutton Chops, which won’t take a whole Cooked Mutton. The raw slices are used for the Salmon Roll and Cod Roll instead, so keep a few of those raw.

Why Cut Your Meat

Two cooked cuts will restore the same hunger and saturation as the whole piece they came from, so you don’t lose anything by cutting. Cod is the one exception, as 2 Cooked Cod Slices give 6 hunger whereas a whole Cooked Cod only gives 5, so it’s slightly better to cut it.

Using Cuts in Recipes

The bigger reason to cut your meat is for recipes, as most Farmer’s Delight recipes will take any raw chicken or any cooked mutton, rather than asking for a whole piece. So a single Raw Chicken Cut is able to make a Chicken Soup just as well as a whole Raw Chicken would, which means you’ll get twice as many Soups and Stews and sandwiches from the same animals.

Cuts are also eaten in half the time, which helps a lot when you need to eat in the middle of a fight. The only downside is that each piece restores less, so you’ll be eating more often, though they stack to 64 the same as whole meat.

Effects

None of the cuts give an effect, apart from Raw Chicken Cuts, which have the same 30% chance to give you Hunger as Raw Chicken does. Hunger is shown in points, where 2 points is one shank on your hunger bar, and all ten are quick to eat.

Cut Meat and Fish

Cooked BaconFurnace or Campfire

Hunger 4

Saturation6.4

Eats fast

Cooked Chicken CutsCutting Board

Hunger 3

Saturation3.6

Eats fast

Cooked Cod SliceCutting Board

Hunger 3

Saturation3

Eats fast

Cooked Salmon SliceCutting Board

Hunger 3

Saturation4.8

Eats fast

Cooked Mutton ChopsCutting Board

Hunger 3

Saturation4.8

Eats fast

Raw BaconCutting Board

Hunger 2

Saturation1.2

Eats fast

Raw Chicken CutsCutting Board

Hunger 1

Saturation0.6

30% Hunger I 0:30

Eats fast

Raw Cod SliceCutting Board

Hunger 1

Saturation0.2

Eats fast

Raw Salmon SliceCutting Board

Hunger 1

Saturation0.2

Eats fast

Raw Mutton ChopsCutting Board

Hunger 1

Saturation0.6

Eats fast

These are the same on 1.20.1 and 1.21.1. Cooked Bacon is the most filling of the cuts at 4 hunger, and 2 of them add up to the 8 hunger of a Cooked Porkchop, whereas the raw cuts are hardly worth eating at all until they’ve been cooked.

Best Picks

Cooked Bacon is the most filling cut, and it’s the one you’ll need for the Bacon Sandwich and Bacon and Eggs, so it’s worth cutting every Porkchop you get. Cod is the only fish that gives you more food when it’s cut, as 2 Cooked Cod Slices restore 6 hunger whereas the whole fish only gives 5.

Chicken is worth cutting for the Bone Meal alone, as each Raw Chicken will give you one alongside the cuts, which goes straight back into your crops. Mutton Chops are mostly needed for Roasted Mutton Chops, so it’s worth keeping a few cooked ones in your kitchen chest for that.

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