Chef's Workbench
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.20–1.21. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
Build a functional Minecraft kitchen to cook, fry, bake, steam, and boil food with specialized cooking stations.
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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 |
|---|---|
| 1.20.1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.20.1 | 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
- Download the file that matches your Minecraft version and mod loader.
- Place the downloaded
.jarfile in yourmodsfolder. - Start Minecraft and look for the Chef's Workbench creative tab.
- 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.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.11, 1.21.1, 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as chefworkbench-1.21.1-forge-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 466 KB
- Download link checked 3 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.