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r/Cooking vs r/slowcooking

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Slow-cooker recipes vs general cooking

r/slowcooking is for ideas, recipes or pictures where a Crock-Pot–style slow cooker was used. r/Cooking is a general cooking room; its rule titles emphasize staying on topic, including recipes, and limiting memes and promotion.

Both have SubMouse pages (slowcooking about 4.8M, rank #193; Cooking about 6.3M, rank #125). Activity samples diverge: Cooking is busier and all text in our window (roughly 77 posts/day); slowcooking mixes text, images and galleries at a quieter rate (roughly 6).

Each lists the other as related. Collected titles for slowcooking require Crock-Pot-type recipes and a recipe with the post, and ban memes/politics. Bring slow-cooker meals to slowcooking; bring broader technique and non-slow-cooker recipes to Cooking. (Baking remains a separate lane—see Cooking vs Baking.)

  • r/slowcooking: Crock-Pot-type recipes only; include the recipe.
  • r/Cooking: general cooking; include recipes; no memes/trolling.
  • They list each other as related. Both have full SubMouse community pages.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.

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

Open r/Cooking on SubMouse

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/slowcooking

Slowcooking: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

r/Slowcooking is a food-related subreddit for sharing ideas, recipes or pictures in which a "Crock-Pot®" style slow cooker was used. Slow cooking is an ideal method for cooking less expensive portions of meat to make th…

Members
4.8M
7-day growth
+1.3K
Posts/day
6.3
Directory rank
#193
Created
Nov 3, 2010
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 40%, images 26%, galleries 15%

Topics: Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Crock-Pot type recipes only
  • Recipe not included with post
  • Crude or hateful comment
  • Meme or Image macro
  • Politics or politics related

Open r/slowcooking on SubMouse

About this community: r/slowcooking is for Crock-Pot–style slow-cooker recipes, ideas, and pictures—including meat and vegetarian/vegan dishes suited to long moist heat. Rank #193 (about 4.8 million subscribers). Rules require crockpot-type recipes, recipes included with posts, and ban memes, politics, and crude/hateful comments.

Supported differences

Aspectr/Cookingr/slowcooking
Public focus (from each community’s public description) n/a r/Slowcooking is a food-related subreddit for sharing ideas, recipes or pictures in which a "Crock-Pot®" style slow cooker was used. Slow cooking is an ideal method for cooking less expensive portions of meat to make th…
Size
r/Cooking is larger in our directory.
 6.3M members 4.8M members
Posting activity (our sample) 77.2/day 6.3/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 100% text posts 40%, images 26%, galleries 15%
Allowed submission type (meta) Text posts Text or links
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful Crock-Pot type recipes only; Recipe not included with post; Crude or hateful comment; Meme or Image macro; Politics or politics related

What they share

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

Rules and tone we can verify

slowcooking: Crock-Pot type recipes only; Recipe not included with post; crude/hateful comments; meme/image macro; politics. Cooking: On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions, member counts and related links from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short titles only.

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 types are shown where recent activity is available. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order.

Comparisons we prepared

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