r/slowcooking vs r/Cooking

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Slow-cooker recipes vs general cooking

r/slowcooking is for ideas, recipes or pictures where a Crock-Pot–style slow cooker was used. r/Cooking is a general cooking room; its collected titles emphasize staying on topic, including recipes, and limiting memes and promotion.

Both have SubMouse pages (slowcooking about 4.8M, rank #193; Cooking about 6.3M, rank #125). Activity samples diverge: Cooking is busier and all text in our window (roughly 77 posts/day); slowcooking mixes text, images and galleries at a quieter rate (roughly 6).

Each lists the other as related. Collected titles for slowcooking require Crock-Pot-type recipes and a recipe with the post, and ban memes/politics. Bring slow-cooker meals to slowcooking; bring broader technique and non-slow-cooker recipes to Cooking. (Baking remains a separate lane—see Cooking vs Baking.)

r/slowcooking: Crock-Pot-type recipes only; include the recipe (collected titles).
r/Cooking: general cooking; include recipes; no memes/trolling (collected titles).
They list each other as related. Both have full SubMouse community pages.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.

r/slowcooking

Slowcooking: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

r/Slowcooking is a food-related subreddit for sharing ideas, recipes or pictures in which a "Crock-Pot®" style slow cooker was used. Slow cooking is an ideal method for cooking less expensive portions of meat to make th…

Members: 4.8M
7-day growth: +1.3K
Posts/day: 6.3
Directory rank: #193
Created: Nov 3, 2010
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 40%, images 26%, galleries 15%

Topics: Cooking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

Crock-Pot type recipes only
Recipe not included with post
Crude or hateful comment
Meme or Image macro
Politics or politics related

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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

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Supported differences

Aspect	r/slowcooking	r/Cooking
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	r/Slowcooking is a food-related subreddit for sharing ideas, recipes or pictures in which a "Crock-Pot®" style slow cooker was used. Slow cooking is an ideal method for cooking less expensive portions of meat to make th…	n/a
Size r/Cooking is larger in our directory.	4.8M members	6.3M members
Posting activity (our sample)	6.3/day	77.2/day
Common post types in our sample	text posts 40%, images 26%, galleries 15%	text posts 100%
Allowed submission type (meta)	Text or links	Text posts
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	Crock-Pot type recipes only; Recipe not included with post; Crude or hateful comment; Meme or Image macro; Politics or politics related	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 tone we can verify

slowcooking: Crock-Pot type recipes only; Recipe not included with post; crude/hateful comments; meme/image macro; politics. Cooking: On topic; Include recipes; No Memes or Trolling; Limit Promotion/Self-Promotion; Be respectful.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions, member counts and related links from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples collected for both. 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.