About r/recipes
In its own words:
Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.
Community guide
r/recipes (#280, about 3.6 million) shares community recipes to grow your cooking repertoire. Rules cover post format, blog posts, “food porn,” link posts, and recipe titles. Image/Text (~8.3 ppd).
Recipe format gates
Follow post-format and title rules; blog and link posts have specific expectations.
Cookable recipes over pure porn
Food-porn-only posts are constrained—share something cookable.
Practical pointers
Image/text/gallery mix; Recipe/Question/Dessert flairs in samples.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,109 subscribers (+0.03%). Among the 20 communities on our cooking list it is number 3 by size. It sits just behind r/Meditation (#279) and ahead of r/horror (#281) in our ranking.
What sets r/recipes apart
r/recipes is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 4.4 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 14.0.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/recipes went up from 3,556,151 to 3,564,262 subscribers (+8.1K, +0.23%). That is about 184 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/recipes talks about
Looking at the titles of 53 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “recipe”, “homemade”, “cheese”, “soft” and “bread”. Other frequent themes are cream, glaze, chicken, bars, cinnamon and rolls. Recurring phrases include “cream cheese”, “homemade soft”, “soft cinnamon” and “cinnamon rolls”. By format, 40% are images, 28% are text posts and 21% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Recipe (28), Question (6), Dessert (5), Drink (1), Poultry (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/recipes gets about 8.3 new posts a day. The public archive holds 132,739 posts and 579,988 comments in total, about 4.4 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (10 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (6). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.
Rules of r/recipes
The moderators of r/recipes list 5 rules. In short:
- Post Format
- Blog post
- Food porn
- Link Post
- Recipe Title
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/recipes 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/recipes have?
r/recipes has 3,564,262 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #280 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 8,111 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/recipes created?
r/recipes was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years.
Is r/recipes still active?
Yes. r/recipes gets about 8.3 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 132,739 posts and 579,988 comments. In a sample of 53 recent posts we counted 36 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/recipes?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/recipes?
The community describes itself as: “Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.” Recent post titles often mention recipe, homemade, cheese, soft and bread. Most posts are images (40%).
Is r/recipes SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/recipes as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/recipes?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/recipes accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “Post Format”; “Blog post”; “Food porn”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/recipes?
Communities with similar topics include r/Cooking (6.3M), r/slowcooking (4.8M), r/GifRecipes (3.3M), r/grilling (2.6M) and r/Baking (4.7M).
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/recipes.