What's the order of "best fuels"?

Example: Coal cooks less than lava and blaze rods, wood cooks less than coal, etc.

What's the order of fuels based on their 'cooking quantity'?

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7 Answers

Fuel efficiency found in Smelting

 Burn Time Burn Time Fuel needed to
Fuel (ticks) (smeltings*) smelt 64 items
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Lava Bucket 20000 100 0.64
Block of Coal 16000 80 0.8
Blaze Rod 2400 12 5.3
Coal and Charcoal 1600 8 8
Huge Mushrooms 300 1.5 43
Wood and wooden things† 300 1.5 43
Daylight Sensors 300 1.5 43
Banners 300 1.5 43
Wood tools and weapons 200 1 64
Wooden Slabs 150 0.75 86
Stick 100 0.5 128
Saplings 100 0.5 128
* Number of items smelted per fuel item
† Anything mostly crafted from wood: Crafting tables, Chests, Jukebox (Except Slabs)

Note that the effective efficiency of the long-burning materials goes down rapidly if you don't restock the furnace.

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Sorting the entries in this table based on the last column gives this list:

• Lava Bucket
• Block of Coal
• Blaze Rod
• Charcoal
• Coal
• Fence
• Fence Gate
• Wooden Stairs
• Wooden Pressure Plate
• Wood Planks
• Wood
• Chest
• Trapped Chest
• Daylight Sensor
• Bookshelf
• Crafting Table
• Trapdoor
• Huge Mushrooms
• Note Block
• Jukebox
• Wooden Tools and Weapons
• Wooden Slabs
• Stick
• Saplings

Found an even better list

Under the section "Fuel efficiency"

From most to least efficient (according to new list):

• Lava Bucket
• Block of coal
• Blaze rod
• coal
• charcoal
• Huge Mushrooms
• Note Block
• Jukebox
• Daylight Sensor
• Trapped Chest
• Chest
• Bookshelf
• Crafting table
• Trapdoor
• Wooden Stairs
• Fence Gate
• Fence
• Wooden preasure plate
• Wood
• Wood Planks
• Wooden Tools and Weapons
• Wooden slabs
• Stick
• Saplings

@Meraj99 - Because you can use them as fuel for a furnace xD

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1. Lava Bucket.

2. Block of Coal

3. Blaze Rod.

4. Coal and Charcoal.

Since Block of Coal is stackable, that makes it a little better than Lava Bucket, because as Celta's answer states that Lava Bucket can cook 100 meat, Block of Coal doing 80. A stack of Block of Coal would be 80x64, doing simple math would tell you that (80x64) is bigger than 100. I hope this helped. (Please don't remove hashtags)

Lava bucket, block of coal, blaze rods, coal and charcoal are the good fuels, however if you are in a survival situation, you may need to use items like saplings and sticks.

1. bucket of lava
2. coal block
3. blaze rod
4. coal/charcoal
5. jukebox
6. note block
7. wood
8. sticks
9. saplings

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Greatest to least: Blaze Rod, Lava Bucket, Coal, Charcoal, Wood, Wooden Planks, Wooden Slabs, Wooden Tools, Saplings.

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