Frying Table

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

Frying Table

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	2
Hardness	2
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes
Note block instrument	Bass

A frying table is a joke block exclusive to 24w14potato. It is used to cook potatoes and fry potato peels, turning them into hash browns.

Obtaining

Breaking

A frying table can be broken using any tool with equal efficiency, and always drops itself.

Block	Frying Table
Hardness	2
Breaking time (secs)
Default	13 (JE) 3 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Frying tables generate naturally as part of potato villages.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Stick + Iron Ingot + Gold Nugget + Potato Planks

Usage

Unlike campfires, frying tables do not produce light.

Frying tables are lit by default when placed. They can be manually lit using flint and steel (either by player or dispenser), fire charges, shooting it with a flaming arrow, or fireball projectiles when /gamerule mobGriefing is true.

A frying table can be extinguished by waterlogging it, throwing a splash water bottle at it, or using a shovel on it. Frying tables can not be lit from their bottom face. As with torches, rain does not extinguish frying tables.

Using flint and steel on the side of a lit or waterlogged frying table sets the adjacent air block on fire instead.

Particles and smoke signals

Frying tables produce smoke particles that float up around 10 blocks before disappearing. If a hay bale is placed below, the frying table becomes a signal fire and the smoke floats up 24 blocks instead.

Frying table smoke particles can partially pass through a block directly above it, but do not pass through blocks more than one block directly above it.

Although a trapdoor is thinner than a slab, a trapdoor can block the smoke completely, preventing the smoke from floating up.

Frying tables emit extra smoke particles during rain, similar to lava.

Frying tables also emit occasional ember particles, similar to lava.

Damage

Frying tables cannot damage players, but do damage mobs standing on top of them even if underwater (with exceptions such as shulkers, zombified piglins, or guardians), but only if lit. Frying tables deal 1HP (although damage immunity reduces this to once every half-second) Frying tables do not cause lasting burning or destroy items. Damage taken is considered fire damage and is reduced by armor (which loses durability), the Resistance effect, and the Protection and Fire Protection enchantments. The player can avoid being damaged at all, either by using a potion of Fire Resistance or wearing Frost Walker boots.

Regardless of height, all blocks prevent damage done to mobs or players above frying tables. The frying table deals damage only to entities occupying its block.

Cooking

The player can place normal potato peels and any dyed potato peel on a lit frying table by using the item on it, resulting in hash browns. Corrupted potato peels can't be fried.

Player can also bake normal potatoes using the frying table, but no other food can be cooked on it.

Up to four items can be placed on a frying table, which cooks them simultaneously. Frying tables do not require any kind of fuel to cook. On a frying table, food produce small smoke particles, indicating they are being cooked. Items take 30 seconds (600 ticks) to cook. If the frying table is extinguished while cooking food, the remaining cooking time quickly counts back up. Food items can be placed on an unlit frying table. Any items cooking on a frying table always drop when the frying table block is broken.

Hoppers

Frying tables do not have an external inventory. Raw food cannot be loaded into the frying table with a hopper.

A hopper placed directly underneath a frying table pulls through any items dropped into the frying table . Any drops from a mob that dies in the frying table get pulled into the hopper.

Bees

Placing a frying table under a beehive or bee nest allows players to harvest honey bottles or honeycomb without provoking the bees. There must be unobstructed air between the frying table and the beehive or bee nest. Carpets are an exception.

Piston interactivity

Pistons do not interact with frying tables. Frying tables neither move nor break when pushed or pulled by pistons.

Sounds

Generic

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.

Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.

wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Unique

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Block tags	Translation key
Frying Table	frying_table	campfires	block.minecraft.frying_table

Block states

Block data

A frying table has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Trivia

• The block is a reference to when a tab titled "Frying table" was open in a video of the crafter, causing many in the community to think it was a new block in development. kingbdogz later revealed that the tab had nothing to do with Minecraft.^[1]

Issues

Issues relating to "Frying Table" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

References