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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.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
No public description in our directory.
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Cooking
Rule titles (short names we collected)
Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.
Sample mix: images 40%, text posts 28%, galleries 21%
Topics: Cooking
Rule titles (short names we collected)
| Aspect | r/Cooking | r/recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) | n/a | Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community. |
| Size r/Cooking is larger in our directory (about 1.8×). |
6.3M members | 3.6M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) | 77.2/day | 8.3/day |
| Common post types in our sample | text posts 100% | images 40%, text posts 28%, galleries 21% |
| Allowed submission type (meta) | Text posts | Link posts |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) | On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful | Post Format; Blog post; Link Post; Recipe Title |
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.
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.