Obtaining
Kill a pig. Pigs spawn on grass in most biomes and drop one porkchop, or up to three if you finish them while they are on fire.
Usage
Cook it before eating it. One piece of coal smelts a stack’s worth of porkchops, and cooking more than doubles the health each one restores.
Smelting ingredient
Cooked Porkchop
smelt→
Cooking raises the heal from 3 health to 8.