COOKED CHICKEN

1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.

Last checked: 11 August 2026
Java Edition: 26.2, 1 of 1 row found
Bedrock Edition: 1.26.30.5, 1 of 1 matching
Edition differences: none, both editions match

Cooked Chicken in villager trading

Cooked Chicken is something you buy from villagers rather than sell to them; it does not appear as a raw-material trade, so trading is one of the few survival-friendly ways to stock up on it.

Cooked Chicken is cooked food that restores hunger efficiently. Buying it in bulk from a Butcher is a hands-off alternative to running a cooker. Cooking chicken in a furnace, smoker or campfire gives one.

Villagers that sell Cooked Chicken(you give emeralds, get Cooked Chicken)

Profession	Level	Price	Amount	Villager XP	Java 26.2	Bedrock 1.26.30.5	Notes
Butcher	Apprentice			5same in Bedrock	verified	verified

The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.2 ships in its own data, checked on 11 August 2026 against the item, both amounts and the use limit. Bedrock 1.26.30.5 is read as well, and where it disagrees the row says how. Which files, and what is not checked.

Your odds of finding Cooked Chicken

A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades cooked chicken is not the same as getting it. The friendliest roll here is the butcher (apprentice): 67% of them carry it, so it takes about 1.5 of them on average before one does.

Chance and daily throughput per villager for Cooked Chicken
Villager	Tier	Villagers with this offer	Rolls to see it	Most from one villager	After a cure
Butcher	Apprentice	67% (2 in 3)Bedrock 50% (1 in 2)	about 1.5	256 cooked chicken a day32 uses, 2 restocks a day	no change

The chance is the draw size over the pool size in the game's own trade set file for that tier. The Bedrock line under it is the same sum on Bedrock's own table, which splits a tier into groups and draws out of each one separately, so the two editions often disagree. The day figure is the trade's use limit times the 2 restocks a villager is allowed per in-game day (Villager.allowedToRestock), so it is a ceiling and not an average: it assumes you are there for every restock. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.

Who trades Cooked Chicken, and at what price

To buy Cooked Chicken, visit a Butcher at the Apprentice tier (1 emerald, 8 per trade).

Is trading Cooked Chicken worth it?

Cooked Chicken sells for as little as 1 emerald for 8 at a time, from the Butcher at the Apprentice tier, and nothing else on the list costs less. The price is fixed rather than rolled, so a second Butcher will quote you exactly the same.

What the Butcher sells, cheapest first
	Cooked ChickenApprentice		1
	Cooked PorkchopApprentice		1
	Rabbit StewNovice		1

Emeralds asked per trade. Every other row links to that item.

What 1 emerald costs in goods

The Butcher at its apprentice tier asks 1 emerald for 8 cooked chicken. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

8 emerald routes measured against Cooked Chicken
A full slot of	To	Emeralds	Buys
12 diamonds	expert Weaponsmith	12	96 cooked chicken
36 gold ingots	apprentice Cleric	12	96 cooked chicken
72 pumpkins	apprentice Farmer	12	96 cooked chicken
108 glass bottles	expert Cleric	12	96 cooked chicken
224 raw chicken	novice Butcher	16	128 cooked chicken
256 andesite	journeyman Mason	16	128 cooked chicken
352 carrots	novice Farmer	16	128 cooked chicken
384 paper	novice Librarian	16	128 cooked chicken

a diamond against 24 paper for the same 1 emerald, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 37.5 real seconds of shelf, gathering not counted.

How Cooked Chicken trading works

Every cooked chicken offer here locks after 16 uses, and a villager restocks up to twice per Minecraft day, so one is good for 32 of these trades a day and no more.

The earliest cooked chicken shows up is the Butcher's Apprentice tier, level 2 of five, which a villager reaches at 10 trade experience. A freshly employed one is 1 tier short of offering cooked chicken at all.

How long Cooked Chicken takes in real time

128 cooked chicken empty one slot at the Butcher, 2400 ticks (Villager.allowedToRestock) at 20 a second (TickRateManager) refill it 2 real minutes later, and the 24000-tick villager day (Timelines) holds 2 of those fills in 20 real minutes.

So one butcher moves 256 cooked chicken against 32 emeralds a Minecraft day, 8 cooked chicken every 37.5 real seconds, 1.6 emeralds a real minute. 64 cooked chicken fit inside one of those slots, refill untouched.

Tips for trading Cooked Chicken

Clearing the shelf: the Butcher hands over 8 cooked chicken a trade and the slot runs 16 times, so 128 cooked chicken (2 full stacks) for 16 emeralds before it has to restock.
Where the emeralds come from: the same Butcher pays an emerald per 4 raw rabbit.
Also on the Butcher's list: raw mutton, raw beef, dried kelp block, sweet berries, raw chicken, raw porkchop.

Cooked Chicken trading FAQ

How much does Cooked Chicken cost from a villager?

1 emerald from the Butcher at the Apprentice tier, 8 per trade. That price is fixed, so every Butcher offering it asks the same.

Can you sell Cooked Chicken to a villager for emeralds?

No. Cooked Chicken only appears on the selling side of the trade window: villagers hand it over for emeralds, none of them take it back.

Same trader, other items

The Butcher works at a smoker and also trades: