Fast Smelt speeds up every cooking block in the game, including the ones you use for food. Raw meat and fish cook in one game tick per item, whichever block you choose.
Using a furnace or smoker
1. Open a furnace or smoker and add fuel to the bottom slot.
2. Place your raw food, such as raw beef, in the top slot.
3. Take the cooked food from the result slot. A whole stack finishes almost immediately.
In vanilla, the smoker cooks food faster than a furnace. With this pack, a regular furnace is just as fast. Use whichever one is closest. You do not need to build a smoker for speed alone.
Using a campfire
Campfires are covered too, which makes them handy at outposts and on the road:
1. Place a lit campfire.
2. Right-click it with raw food to put the items on top.
3. The food cooks right away and pops off as cooked items. Pick them up and keep adding more.
Campfires need no fuel, so they are a cheap way to cook quickly while you travel.
When to use which
- At your main base: Use a furnace or smoker for full stacks of food.
- While exploring: Carry a campfire to cook meat from animals you hunt without carrying fuel.
- On a tight budget early on: One furnace can handle both your ore and your food, because both cook equally fast.