Cooked Meat

A basic meal for survivors

Cooked Meat is the cooked form of Raw Meat in ARK: Survival Evolved and ARK: Survival Ascended. For a survivor it restores 20 food and 8 health and supports health and stamina regeneration. The item text adds a note about wildlife: "Wild carnivores will eat it, but prefer raw meat."

Cooking and keeping it

One Raw Meat becomes one Cooked Meat at a Campfire, a Stone Fireplace or an Industrial Grill, which takes 20 seconds. The result spoils in 20 minutes (1200 seconds). Each piece weighs 0.1 and they stack to 50, so a full stack weighs 5. In a Preserving Bin, Cooked Meat with Oil and Sparkpowder turns into Cooked Meat Jerky after 36 minutes.

Feeding creatures

Carnivores that are being tamed accept it, and it fills the same 50 food as Raw Meat, but the wiki advises against using it for taming since raw meat works twice as well. A tamed creature that eats it regains 25 food and 10 health.

Recipes with Cooked Meat

Our data lists 19 recipes in each game. The main cooking uses are Enduro Stew, Focal Chili and Lazarus Chowder at 9 each, plus Basic Kibble and Cooked Meat Jerky at 1. ASE adds Salted Jerky and Basic Augmented Kibble, and ASA uses 50 for Dino Candy. A group of skins also calls for it, with the Sunglasses, Flying Disc and Uncle Sam Hat taking 250 each, while Summer Swirl Taffy in ASE takes 50.

Loot can also provide it: 105 crate types can contain Cooked Meat, among them the Astraeos Blue crates and the Astral Argentavis and Astral Carnotaurus crates.