A smoker is a type of furnace that cooks food items, similar to a furnace, but twice as fast. It also serves as a butcher's job site block. Smokers can be mined using any pickaxe. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Smokers can generate in butcher houses in villages. Smokers cannot be pushed by pistons.‌[Java Edition only] Smokers are used to cook food items twice as fast as a regular furnace. It is the counterpart to the blast furnace, which is used to quickly smelt ores, metal tools.