About r/pasta
In its own words:
For lovers of pasta. Homemade pasta, pasta making, pasta dishes, favorite non-chain restaurants, recipes, news and more.
Community guide
r/pasta (#828, about 1.3 million subscribers) is oriented around: For lovers of pasta. Homemade pasta, pasta making, pasta dishes, favorite non-chain restaurants, recipes, news and more. Recent activity samples show 14 posts/day in recent samples (~57% image, ~27% gallery, ~7% text). Public rules we collected include: Original Content and Recipes; Content; Be Civil; No Spam; No Shit Posting.
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. Civility rules are enforced; personal attacks get removed.
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: Homemade Dish, Pasta From Scratch, Restaurant, Homemade Dish - From Scratch.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Nov 17, 2008, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 624 subscribers (+0.05%). Among the 20 communities on our cooking list it is number 9 by size. It sits just behind r/beards (#827) and ahead of r/boxoffice (#845) in our ranking.
What sets r/pasta apart
Compared with other large communities, r/pasta leans heavily on images (57% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 21%).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/pasta grew from 1,278,724 to 1,282,668 subscribers (+3.9K, +0.31%). That is about 90 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/pasta talks about
Looking at the titles of 101 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “spaghetti”, “sauce”, “garlic”, “carbonara” and “linguine”. Other frequent themes are homemade, ravioli, cheese, noodles, alfredo and chicken. Recurring phrases include “linguine amatriciana”, “carbonara con”, “con nduja” and “tomato sauce”. By format, 57% are images, 27% are galleries and 7% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Homemade Dish (35), Pasta From Scratch (18), Restaurant (15), Homemade Dish - From Scratch (9), Info (7), Recipe (5).
Activity and best time to post
r/pasta gets about 14 new posts a day. The public archive holds 31,387 posts and 270,928 comments in total, about 8.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (17 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (10). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.
Rules of r/pasta
The moderators of r/pasta list 8 rules. In short:
- Original Content and Recipes
- Content
- Be Civil
- No Spam
- No Shit Posting
- Absolutely No NSFW Content
- No Politics or Dietary Activism
- Food Related Posts Only
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/pasta 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 subscribers does r/pasta have?
r/pasta has 1,282,668 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #828 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 3,944 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/pasta created?
r/pasta was created on Nov 17, 2008, so it has been around for 17 years.
Is r/pasta still active?
Yes. r/pasta gets about 14 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 31,387 posts and 270,928 comments. In a sample of 101 recent posts we counted 86 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/pasta?
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 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/pasta?
The community describes itself as: “For lovers of pasta. Homemade pasta, pasta making, pasta dishes, favorite non-chain restaurants, recipes, news and more.” Recent post titles often mention spaghetti, sauce, garlic, carbonara and linguine. Most posts are images (57%).
Is r/pasta SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/pasta as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/pasta?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/pasta accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Original Content and Recipes”; “Content”; “Be Civil”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/pasta?
Communities with similar topics include r/recipes (3.6M), r/JapaneseFood (1.4M), r/Sneakers (5.6M), r/Breadit (1.3M) and r/GifRecipes (3.3M).
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/pasta.