Side-by-side using public descriptions, members, growth and rule titles from SubMouse. Missing fields show as n/a. Adult communities are excluded.
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r/Cooking has an empty public description field in our directory, so we lean on activity samples and rule titles we collected: short rule titles require posts to stay on topic, include recipes when relevant, ban memes/trolling, and limit promotion. Our activity sample for Cooking is essentially all text at roughly seventy-plus posts per day—discussion and write-ups more than photo dumps.
r/Baking’s public description invites recipes, pictures, ideas and questions across cakes, cookies, breads and more. Its activity sample mixes galleries and images with a solid share of text, at a higher posts-per-day rate than Cooking in our window. One collected Baking short title bans self-promotion and other-promo links to Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok; others ban memes and dropshipping-style spam.
Practical chooser guidance from those sources: bring technique questions and recipe write-ups aimed at other cooks to Cooking; bring bakes you want to show or baking-specific recipe threads to Baking. Neither write-up declares a “better” kitchen community—only different dominant formats in the data we hold.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.
No public description in our directory.
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Cooking
Rule titles (short names we collected)
For all your baking needs! Recipes, pictures, ideas, questions and all things baking related. Cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, breads, rolls, biscuits, cheesecakes, snack bars, etc are all welcome!
Sample mix: galleries 40%, images 34%, text posts 23%
Topics: Baking
Rule titles (short names we collected)
| Aspect | r/Cooking | r/Baking |
|---|---|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) | n/a | For all your baking needs! Recipes, pictures, ideas, questions and all things baking related. Cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, breads, rolls, biscuits, cheesecakes, snack bars, etc are all welcome! |
| Size r/Cooking is larger in our directory. |
6.3M members | 4.7M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) | 77.2/day | 126.5/day |
| Common post types in our sample | text posts 100% | galleries 40%, images 34%, text posts 23% |
| Allowed submission type (meta) | Text posts | Text or links |
| Topic tags on SubMouse | Cooking | Baking |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) | On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful | No self-promotion or other-promo (please no links to pinterest, instagram, facebook, tiktok); No memes; No glorifying, praising, or promoting stand mixers (kitchen-aid or others); No tshirt, mug, dropshipping, etc spam. |
Member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles, posts/day and post-type mixes from activity samples SubMouse collected for Cooking and Baking. No post titles or full Reddit rule bodies are reproduced.
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.