r/grilling vs r/smoking

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Grilling room vs smoking room

r/grilling’s public description covers tips, recipes and pictures related to grilling. r/smoking is for techniques, tips, recipes and pictures of smoking meats, vegetables, fruits or other food.

In our directory, grilling is larger (about 2.6M, rank #436) than smoking (about 1.1M, rank #988). Activity samples show smoking posting more often (~36 posts/day vs ~20). Both samples are mix of text with gallery and image. Our directory lists related overlap with cooking/food communities.

Rule titles: grilling bans spam, affiliate links and off-topic posts and wants original content; smoking bans label/price pics, charcoal-bag pics and smoke-inhalation content.

Choose r/grilling for direct-heat cookouts under its original-content and anti-affiliate rules.
Choose r/smoking for smoker techniques and results under its no-label-pic rules.
Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; smoking posts more often in our sample despite fewer members.

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

r/grilling

Grilling! Tips and tricks for cooking over fire.

Welcome to /r/Grilling, a Subreddit for all Tips, Recipes, Pictures, and anything related to Grilling! Rules: Be respectful. this is a place to discuss grilling, not grill each other. NO SPAM If you're a bot account or …

Members: 2.6M
7-day growth: +2.1K
Posts/day: 19.5
Directory rank: #436
Created: Nov 18, 2009
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: galleries 46%, images 31%, text posts 17%

Topics: BBQ & Grilling, Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

No Spam or Bots
Be courteous/polite to each other
Posts and comments have to be on topic
No reposting - original content only
No self-promotion
No affiliate marketing links

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r/smoking

Enhancing food with wood smoke flavor

A place to discuss techniques, tips, recipes, and pictures of smoking meats, vegetables, fruits, or anything else consumable.

Members: 1.1M
7-day growth: +1.1K
Posts/day: 36.3
Directory rank: #988 (listed; no SubMouse page yet)
Created: Jul 28, 2008
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: galleries 36%, text posts 28%, images 25%

Topics: Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

No pics of labels/prices
No pics of bags of charcoal
No smoke inhalation

Look up r/smoking (info tool)

Supported differences

Aspect	r/grilling	r/smoking
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	Welcome to /r/Grilling, a Subreddit for all Tips, Recipes, Pictures, and anything related to Grilling! Rules: Be respectful. this is a place to discuss grilling, not grill each other. NO SPAM If you're a bot account or …	A place to discuss techniques, tips, recipes, and pictures of smoking meats, vegetables, fruits, or anything else consumable.
Size r/grilling is larger in our directory (about 2.4×).	2.6M members	1.1M members
Posting activity (our sample)	19.5/day	36.3/day
Common post types in our sample	galleries 46%, images 31%, text posts 17%	galleries 36%, text posts 28%, images 25%
Topic tags on SubMouse	BBQ & Grilling, Cooking	Cooking
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	No Spam or Bots; Be courteous/polite to each other; Posts and comments have to be on topic; No reposting - original content only; No self-promotion	No pics of labels/prices; No pics of bags of charcoal; No smoke inhalation

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

grilling short titles include: No Spam or Bots; Be courteous/polite to each other; Posts and comments have to be on topic; No reposting - original content only; No self-promotion; No affiliate marketing links. Our sample is gallery- and image-heavy.

smoking: No pics of labels/prices; No pics of bags of charcoal; No smoke inhalation. Our sample mixes galleries, images and text.

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.

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.