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.