About r/AskCulinary
In its own words:
A place to get that "one right answer" to your cooking questions!
Community guide
r/AskCulinary (#821, about 1.3 million subscribers) is oriented around: A place to get that "one right answer" to your cooking questions! Recent activity samples show 14 posts/day in recent samples (~77% text, ~23% link). Public rules we collected include: Please avoid questions about Food Safety; Avoid Brand Comparisons and Recommendations; Please include enough information; Avoid recipe requests; Avoid brainstorming. Directory metadata files it under “Lifestyles”.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Match posts to: Please avoid questions about Food Safety; Avoid Brand Comparisons and Recommendations; Please include enough information; Avoid recipe requests.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Technique Question, Ingredient Question, Recipe Troubleshooting, Food Science Question.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Dec 15, 2011, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 958 subscribers (+0.07%). Among the 20 communities on our cooking list it is number 8 by size. It sits just behind r/babyelephantgifs (#820) and ahead of r/Jazz (#822) in our ranking.
What sets r/AskCulinary apart
Compared with other large communities, r/AskCulinary leans heavily on text posts (77% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/AskCulinary grew from 1,286,756 to 1,293,424 subscribers (+6.7K, +0.52%). That is about 152 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/AskCulinary talks about
Looking at the titles of 86 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “chicken”, “help”, “butter”, “cook” and “sauce”. Other frequent themes are chocolate, pot, pie, oven, cookies and cream. Recurring phrases include “sheet pan”. By format, 77% are text posts and 23% are links.
Popular post flairs: Technique Question (18), Ingredient Question (14), Recipe Troubleshooting (7), Food Science Question (3), Equipment Question (3), Weekly Discussion (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/AskCulinary gets about 14 new posts a day. The public archive holds 164,053 posts and 2,080,293 comments in total, about 12.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (16 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (7). Posting peaks around 12:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/AskCulinary
The moderators of r/AskCulinary list 11 rules. In short:
- Please avoid questions about Food Safety
- Avoid Brand Comparisons and Recommendations
- Please include enough information
- Avoid recipe requests
- Avoid brainstorming
- Avoid deliberate attempts to offend or pick a fight
- Top level comments MUST answer the question.
- Comment Etiquette
- Avoid questions about culinary careers
- Avoid Self-Promotion
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/AskCulinary and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/AskCulinary have?
r/AskCulinary has 1,293,424 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #821 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 6,668 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/AskCulinary created?
r/AskCulinary was created on Dec 15, 2011, so it has been around for 14 years.
Is r/AskCulinary still active?
Yes. r/AskCulinary gets about 14 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 164,053 posts and 2,080,293 comments. In a sample of 86 recent posts we counted 83 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/AskCulinary?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 12:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/AskCulinary?
The community describes itself as: “A place to get that "one right answer" to your cooking questions!” Recent post titles often mention chicken, help, butter, cook and sauce. Most posts are text posts (77%).
Is r/AskCulinary SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/AskCulinary as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/AskCulinary?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/AskCulinary accepts text posts only. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “Please avoid questions about Food Safety”; “Avoid Brand Comparisons and Recommendations”; “Please include enough information”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/AskCulinary?
Communities with similar topics include r/Cooking (6.3M), r/AskReddit (60M), r/cookingforbeginners (2.2M), r/ask (1.3M) and r/NoStupidQuestions (7.6M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/AskCulinary.