Venison Chop

A salted, cooked cut of deer meat that restores 5 Health, made from Venison at any cooking pot or spit.

Venison Chop is a thick cut of deer meat, salted and cooked over a fire. Hunters across Skyrim end up with plenty of venison, and this is the simplest way to turn it into a meal. The recipe is known from the start of the game and needs no skill to prepare.

Effects

Eating it restores 5 Health. It is a plain instant restore and, at 2 weight, one of the heavier foods to carry for such a small heal, so it is best eaten soon after cooking rather than hauled around.

How to make it

Use any cooking pot or cooking spit with:

Where to find it

Cook it at any cooking place, such as in Riverwood, at Embershard Mine or in Whiterun.

Good to know

Venison goes much further in Venison Stew, which adds salt, potato and leek and gives Stamina plus a twelve-minute Health and Stamina regeneration effect.

Where to find it

  • Cooked at any cooking pot or spit from a Salt Pile and Venison.

Crafting materials

1x Salt Pile
1x Venison

Lore notes

Dropped by

Quest reward from

Where it appears

Embershard Mine in Skyrim: bandit iron mine between Helgen and Riverwood – rock trap, drawbridge lever, ten iron veins, Clairvoyance tome and forge.
Riverwood is the small lumber village where most Skyrim adventures really begin – blacksmith, inn, trader and the road up to Bleak Falls Barrow.
Whiterun is the trading heart of Skyrim, a hilltop city on the central plains crowned by Dragonsreach. Districts, shops, quests and characters.

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Sources checked: Skyrim/DLC game files (food records, cooking and oven recipes); Elder Scrolls Fandom food and cooking articles