Cooked Mutton is the cooked food item obtained by smelting raw mutton in a furnace, smoker, or over a campfire in Minecraft. Six hunger points and 9.6 saturation make Cooked Mutton one of the most filling meats in the game, far ahead of Cooked Chicken or Cooked Cod in hunger-bar staying time. Sheep also drop Cooked Mutton directly when they die by fire or from a weapon carrying Fire Aspect, and the Looting enchantment raises the drop count. A fenced sheep pen turns breeding into a renewable supply of Cooked Mutton that lasts an entire survival trip.

A smoker finishes a stack of raw mutton twice as fast as a furnace, so a cooking station beside a sheep farm keeps Cooked Mutton flowing without a backlog. Tamed wolves eat Cooked Mutton to heal and to breed, and each piece speeds a baby wolf's growth by 10% of the remaining time. Butcher villagers add a second source, occasionally gifting Cooked Mutton to the player in Java Edition. For early survival, Cooked Mutton beats Cooked Beef and Cooked Porkchop in saturation per animal, because sheep are easier to pen and breed than cows or pigs.