Chef’s Workbench

Chef’s Workbench

Build a functional Minecraft kitchen with stoves, pans, pots, ovens, bamboo steamers, and counters.

Chef’s Workbench turns cooking into a small kitchen system instead of a single
furnace block. Use fuel, cookware, batch baking, and custom datapack recipes to
build a kitchen that feels useful in survival and flexible in modpacks.

Kitchen Blocks

| Block | Crafting recipe | What it does |
|—|—:|—|
| Stove | | Burns fuel, cooks food, and can produce a byproduct. Also supplies heat to cookware placed above it. |
| Pan | | Place directly on a Stove to fry up to four separate items or one combined recipe. |
| Pot | | Place directly on a Stove to boil up to six ingredients into one output. |
| Oven | | Uses its own fuel slot and bakes in eight independent slots. Each slot accepts up to one stack of the same item. |
| Bamboo Steamer | | Place directly on a Stove to steam food in four independent slots. |
| Counter | | A matching kitchen surface for building a cleaner cooking area. |

Cooking Examples

| Recipe type | Preview | Notes |
|—|—:|—|
| Stove Cooking | | One input, one fuel slot, one main result, and optional byproduct. |
| Pan Frying | | Independent frying can run per slot. Combined recipes consume all required inputs together. |
| Oven Baking | | Eight independent baking slots. Larger stacks take longer and scale output and experience. |
| Bamboo Steaming | | Four independent steaming slots, powered by the Stove below. |
| Pot Boiling | | Six inputs combine into one output, powered by the Stove below. |

Custom Recipes

Chef’s Workbench supports datapack recipes for every cooking station. Datapack
authors can add new foods, replace built-in recipes, and tune cooking time or
experience without editing the mod jar.

Open the datapack recipe guide

Supported Versions

| Minecraft | Mod loaders |
|—|—|
| 1.19.4 | Forge, Fabric |
| 1.20.1 | Forge, Fabric |
| 1.20.6 | Forge, Fabric, NeoForge |
| 1.21.1 | Forge, Fabric, NeoForge |
| 1.21.11 | Fabric, NeoForge |
| 26.1.2 | Fabric, NeoForge |
| 26.2 | Fabric, NeoForge |

Always use the file made for your exact Minecraft version and loader.

Recipe Viewers

Recipe viewers are optional. Chef’s Workbench works without one, but installing
a supported viewer makes every custom cooking recipe easier to browse in-game.

| Minecraft | Forge | Fabric | NeoForge |
|—|—|—|—|
| 1.19.4 | JEI, EMI, REI | JEI, EMI, REI | |
| 1.20.1 | JEI, EMI, REI | JEI, EMI, REI | |
| 1.20.6 | JEI | JEI, EMI, REI | JEI, EMI, REI |
| 1.21.1 | JEI | JEI, EMI, REI | JEI, EMI, REI |
| 1.21.11 | | JEI, REI | JEI, REI |
| 26.1.2 | | JEI | JEI |
| 26.2 | | JEI | JEI |

Install

1. Download the file that matches your Minecraft version and mod loader.
2. Place the downloaded .jar file in your mods folder.
3. Start Minecraft and look for the Chef’s Workbench creative tab.
4. Craft a Stove, add fuel, and begin building your kitchen.

Need Help?

Found a bug or have an idea? Report it on the
Chef’s Workbench issue tracker.