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r/Cooking vs r/AskCulinary

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AskCulinary Q&A vs Cooking discussion room

r/AskCulinary’s public description is a place to get that one right answer to cooking questions. r/Cooking’s directory title is Cooking; a longer public description was n/a in our snapshot.

In our directory, Cooking is larger (about 6.3M, rank #125) than AskCulinary (about 1.3M, rank #821). Activity samples show Cooking posting more often (~77 posts/day vs ~14). Both samples are text-forward; AskCulinary also includes some links. AskCulinary’s sample flairs include technique, ingredient, recipe troubleshooting, food science, equipment and weekly discussion. Our directory lists AskCulinary → Cooking among related communities. SubMouse already compares Cooking with Baking and slowcooking; this pair is specifically culinary Q&A versus general cooking.

Rule titles: AskCulinary avoids food-safety dump questions, brand wars, recipe requests and brainstorming and requires top-level answers; Cooking wants on-topic posts with recipes, bans memes/trolling and limits promotion.

  • Choose r/AskCulinary for precise technique/ingredient questions that expect a direct answer.
  • Choose r/Cooking for broader cooking discussion and recipe sharing under its on-topic rules.
  • Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; cooking-vs-baking and slowcooking-vs-cooking are separate curated pages.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/Cooking

Cooking

No public description in our directory.

Members
6.3M
7-day growth
+5.1K
Posts/day
77.2
Directory rank
#125
Created
Jan 25, 2008
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 100%

Topics: Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • On topic
  • Include recipes
  • No Memes or Trolling
  • Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion
  • Be respectful

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About this community: r/Cooking is a text-forward cooking discussion community—techniques, troubleshooting, and kitchen judgement—rather than a recipe-screenshot mill. Rank #125 (about 6.3 million subscribers). Rules we collected require posts to stay on topic, include recipes when relevant, and ban memes/trolling; promotion is limited.

r/AskCulinary

AskCulinary

A place to get that "one right answer" to your cooking questions!

Members
1.3M
7-day growth
+958
Posts/day
14.3
Directory rank
#821
Created
Dec 15, 2011
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 77%, links 23%

Topics: Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • 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
  • Avoid Open-ended Discussion

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Supported differences

Aspectr/Cookingr/AskCulinary
Public focus (from each community’s public description) n/a A place to get that "one right answer" to your cooking questions!
Size
r/Cooking is larger in our directory (about 4.9×).
 6.3M members 1.3M members
Posting activity (our sample) 77.2/day 14.3/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 77%, links 23%
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful Please avoid questions about Food Safety; Avoid Brand Comparisons and Recommendations; Please include enough information; Avoid recipe requests; Avoid brainstorming

What they share

  • Shared SubMouse topics: Cooking
  • Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

AskCulinary short titles include: 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; top-level comments must answer the question; comment etiquette; avoid culinary-career questions. Our sample flairs include technique, ingredient, recipe troubleshooting, food science, equipment and weekly discussion.

Cooking: on topic; include recipes; no memes or trolling; limit promotion/self-promotion; be respectful. Our sample is essentially all text. Public description: n/a in our snapshot.

Where this comparison comes from

Public titles, descriptions (where present) and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Directory related-link from AskCulinary → Cooking. Short titles only. Related curated pages: cooking-vs-baking, slowcooking-vs-cooking.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: