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+# textdomain: mcl_smoker
+Inventory=
+Smoker=
+Cooks food faster than furnace=
+Use the recipe book to see what you can smelt, what you can use as fuel and how long it will burn.=
+Use the furnace to open the furnace menu.\nPlace a furnace fuel in the lower slot and the source material in the upper slot.\nThe furnace will slowly use its fuel to smelt the item.\nThe result will be placed into the output slot at the right side.=
+Smokers cook several items, mainly raw foods, into cooked foods, but twice as fast as a normal furnace.=
+Burning Smoker=