The bug
When a campfire has food on it and is put out with a shovel or a splash water bottle, the food does not drop and stays on the campfire. If the campfire would be put out with a bucket of water, the items would have dropped.
To reproduce
Put on a campfire
Place food on the campfire
Put out the campfire with a bucket of water
→ ✔ The items drop from the campfireLight the campfire again
Place the food on the campfire
Put out the campfire with a shovel or a splash water bottle
→ ❌ The food stays on the extinguished campfire
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I believe the issue here is that you cannot take the meat off the campfire, and it won't be cooked since the campfire is not lit.
This might be intended.
I've investigated this, and it seems like the fact that the food stays on the campfire is inconsistent with how it behaves when you put the campfire out with a water bucket.
I'm inclined to ask Mojang to please consider adding the possibility of putting food on unlit campfires as a feature, this bug was very useful for decorating with items. It's a sad day to see this gone, especially with so few ways to display items in the vanilla game of minecraft!
I'm with MukiTanuki, this was a perfect way to decorate things and especially when creating food stands since frames are very underwhelming at this rate. Unless Mojang ever actually decides to offer other creative ways to display stuff (similar to the placeable items mod) other than slapping them on a frame, just change the feature so that when you crouch and throw water bottle/shovel, the food stays or something. Thank you.
Is the bug that you can put meat on a campfire while it is off? I'm not sure if that is a bug or not. You can put meat in a furnace without fuel, but at the same time it seems silly to be able to put it on the fire when it doesn't cook.