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r/cookingforbeginners vs r/Cooking

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Cooking room vs cooking for beginners room

r/Cooking had no public description in our snapshot; its rules ask posts to stay on topic and include recipes. r/cookingforbeginners is aimed at people who just moved into a first apartment or have lived on takeout, and invites questions about simple recipes and basic techniques — to learn or to teach.

In our directory, Cooking is larger (about 6.3M, rank #125) than cookingforbeginners (about 2.2M, rank #514) and posts more often (~77 posts/day vs ~15). Both samples are text-led; cookingforbeginners’ flairs are mostly Question, with some Request and Recipe. Our directory lists each among the other’s related communities.

Rule titles: cookingforbeginners bans gatekeeping and AI content, asks for details in every post, and keeps outside links, videos and images to a megathread; it also carries the food-safety rule “If in doubt, throw it out.”

  • Choose r/cookingforbeginners for basic questions where the rules ban gatekeeping.
  • Choose r/Cooking for broader cooking discussion and recipe-backed posts.
  • Cooking is larger and busier; cookingforbeginners is the more beginner-friendly feed.

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

r/cookingforbeginners

Cooking for Beginners

Just moved into your first apartment and don't know a thing about cooking or have lived on your own for years and have existed on take out and fast food? Then this is the sub for you! Learn how to cook simple recipes fo…

Members
2.2M
7-day growth
+1.2K
Posts/day
15.1
Directory rank
#514
Created
Jul 31, 2014
Submissions
Text posts

Sample mix: text posts 87%, links 13%

Topics: Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Be civil to each other
  • No self promotion, outside links, videos, or images except in the megathread
  • Include details in your post! Either a recipe or a topic for discussion.
  • No gatekeeping.
  • Please be constructive.
  • "If in doubt, throw it out"
  • No AMAs without permission.
  • No AI

Open r/cookingforbeginners on SubMouse

About this community: r/cookingforbeginners (#514, about 2.2 million) — Just moved into your first apartment and don't know a thing about cooking or have lived on your own for years and have existed on take out and fast food? Then this is the sub for you! Learn how to cook simple recipes for yourself and find it isn't as hard as you think it is. Collected rules highlight Be civil to each other; No self promotion, outside links, videos, o…

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.

Supported differences

Aspectr/cookingforbeginnersr/Cooking
Public focus (from each community’s public description) Just moved into your first apartment and don't know a thing about cooking or have lived on your own for years and have existed on take out and fast food? Then this is the sub for you! Learn how to cook simple recipes fo… n/a
Size
r/Cooking is larger in our directory (about 2.9×).
 2.2M members 6.3M members
Posting activity (our sample) 15.1/day 77.2/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 87%, links 13% text posts 100%
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Be civil to each other; No self promotion, outside links, videos, or images except in the megathread; Include details in your post! Either a recipe or a topic for discussion.; No gatekeeping.; Please be constructive. On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful

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

Cooking short titles: On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful.

cookingforbeginners: Be civil to each other; No self promotion, outside links, videos, or images except in the megathread; Include details in your post; No gatekeeping; Please be constructive; “If in doubt, throw it out”; No AMAs without permission; No AI.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Mutual related-list links. Related curated pages: askculinary-vs-cooking, cooking-vs-recipes.

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: