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r/recipes vs r/Cooking

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Cooking discussion room vs recipe sharing room

r/Cooking had no public description in our snapshot; its rule titles keep it on topic, ask for recipes to be included, and ban memes and trolling. r/recipes describes itself as a place to improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from Reddit’s community.

In our directory, Cooking is larger (about 6.3M, rank #125) than recipes (about 3.6M, rank #280) and far more active (~77 posts/day vs ~8). Cooking’s sample is all text; recipes’ smaller sample mixes images, galleries and text, mostly flaired Recipe, with some Question and Dessert. Our directory lists each among the other’s related communities.

Rule titles: Cooking — on topic, include recipes, no memes or trolling, limit self-promotion, be respectful; recipes sets rules for post format, recipe titles, blog posts and link posts.

  • Choose r/Cooking to ask questions and discuss techniques, dishes and kitchen problems.
  • Choose r/recipes to post or browse a complete recipe in the expected format.
  • Cooking is busier day to day; recipes is a slower, recipe-first feed.

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

r/recipes

recipes

Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.

Members
3.6M
7-day growth
+1.1K
Posts/day
8.3
Directory rank
#280
Created
Jan 25, 2008
Submissions
Link posts

Sample mix: images 40%, text posts 28%, galleries 21%

Topics: Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Post Format
  • Blog post
  • Link Post
  • Recipe Title

Open r/recipes on SubMouse

About this community: 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).

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/recipesr/Cooking
Public focus (from each community’s public description) Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community. n/a
Size
r/Cooking is larger in our directory (about 1.8×).
 3.6M members 6.3M members
Posting activity (our sample) 8.3/day 77.2/day
Common post types in our sample images 40%, text posts 28%, galleries 21% text posts 100%
Allowed submission type (meta) Link posts Text posts
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Post Format; Blog post; Link Post; Recipe Title 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. Our sample is 100% text.

recipes: Post Format; Blog post; Link Post; Recipe Title, plus an image-post rule. Our sample mixes images, galleries and text with Recipe flairs.

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-cookingforbeginners.

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: