How the cooking communities compare
The audience is spread out — the top three account for 48% of members, and the niche communities further down are often where the detailed discussions happen. r/Cooking is both the biggest and the busiest, with about 79 new posts a day. Per member, the liveliest is r/smoking: 35 posts a day from 1.1M members — a smaller crowd, but an engaged one. Among the communities we track weekly, r/smoking grew fastest recently (+0.13%, +1.3K members since Oct 19). The oldest is r/Cooking, founded in 2008, and every community here is more than five years old — this is a long-established corner of Reddit.
The 18 biggest cooking subreddits
r/Cooking 6,327,811 members · ~79 posts/day · +7.4K since Oct 19 · since 2008Cooking
r/slowcooking 4,754,542 members · ~6.3 posts/day · +1.5K since Oct 19 · since 2010r/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 them more te…
- Rr/recipes ↗ 3,563,666 members · +1.6K since Oct 19 · since 2008
Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.
r/grilling 2,566,315 members · ~18 posts/day · +2.3K since Oct 19 · since 2009Welcome 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 you're spa…
- Cr/cookingforbeginners ↗ 2,161,811 members · ~15 posts/day · +1.8K since Oct 19 · since 2014
Just moved into your first apartment and don't know a thing about cooking or have lived on your own for years and have existed on take out and fast food? Then this is the sub for you! Learn how to cook simple recipes for yourself…
- Br/burgers ↗ 1,450,235 members · ~17 posts/day · +1.1K since Oct 19 · since 2009
A community for discussion about burgers. Share recipes, photos, or questions about burgers. A burger is a sandwich which consists of two buns and a ground patty of protein, most commonly beef. A chicken sandwich does not qualify…
- Jr/JapaneseFood ↗ 1,411,796 members · ~19 posts/day · +1.7K since Oct 19 · since 2010
*Quality* photography, discussion, videos and recipes related to Japanese cuisine. Recipes and your homemade dishes are especially welcome.
- Ar/AskCulinary ↗ 1,292,849 members · ~14 posts/day · +1.4K since Oct 19 · since 2011
A place to get that "one right answer" to your cooking questions!
- Pr/pasta ↗ 1,282,303 members · ~11 posts/day · +717 since Oct 19 · since 2008
For lovers of pasta. Homemade pasta, pasta making, pasta dishes, favorite non-chain restaurants, recipes, news and more.
- Sr/spicy ↗ 1,195,960 members · ~11 posts/day · +625 since Oct 19 · since 2010
reddit spicy: recipes and discussions about spicy food
- Sr/smoking ↗ 1,071,776 members · ~35 posts/day · +1.3K since Oct 19 · since 2008
A place to discuss techniques, tips, recipes, and pictures of smoking meats, vegetables, fruits, or anything else consumable.
- Er/easyrecipes ↗ 926,168 members · ~5.4 posts/day · since 2012
A community for sharing and finding your tastiest, easy recipes! Individuals of all skill levels, tastes, and talents are welcome!
- Kr/ketorecipes ↗ 620,115 members · ~1.7 posts/day · since 2011
A community for sharing recipes for meals, drinks, snacks, and desserts that fit into a ketogenic diet. Questions about keto? Also check out /r/keto!
- Vr/veganrecipes ↗ 542,895 members · ~13 posts/day · since 2010
A community for sharing vegan recipes
- Or/Old_Recipes ↗ 482,218 members · ~6.1 posts/day · since 2019
Old recipes are interesting and sometimes amazing. Please share yours here.
- Cr/cookingtonight ↗ 317,856 members · ~4.3 posts/day · since 2014
Never know what to make for dinner? Neither do we. Let's all make the same thing for dinner and see how it comes out. We're under some renovations right now, but new things are on the way!
- Vr/vegetarianrecipes ↗ 317,231 members · ~3.7 posts/day · since 2012
Come here to find delicious vegetarian recipes! First rule of /r/vegetarianrecipes is to include the recipe in the comments, not a link, but an actual recipe. This needs to include a list of ingredients with measurements, and dir…
- Tr/TopSecretRecipes ↗ 259,834 members · ~3.0 posts/day · since 2016
Top Secret Recipes is a place to find recipes so you can make your favorite restaurant food at home! We're like the wikileaks of food! All recipes are welcome as long as it keep with the spirit of the sub! This is the place for r…
Choosing where to post
For beginner questions, r/cookingforbeginners is the natural first stop — it exists for advice, and roughly 15 new threads a day keep it moving. Asking the same thing in r/Cooking often gets it removed or lost among the 79 daily posts. Competition for attention differs a lot: r/slowcooking has 4.8M members but only about 6.3 new posts a day — roughly one new post for every 754.7K members — while r/Cooking gets about 79 a day, one for every 79.8K. A strong, well-made post therefore has more room to be seen in r/slowcooking; r/Cooking is better when you want quick replies.
Big subreddits give a post the widest audience, but they also bury it quickly; the mid-sized communities on this list are usually friendlier for questions and first posts. Always read the rules in the sidebar first — each community is run by its own volunteer moderators. Our guide to searching Reddit explains how to dig through any of these communities, and the subreddit info tool gives you the stats of one we don't list.
Frequently asked questions
Which cooking subreddit has the most members?
r/Cooking is the largest, with 6,327,811 members, followed by r/slowcooking (4.8M) and r/recipes (3.6M).
Where are the most new cooking posts?
By new posts per day, r/Cooking leads with about 79, ahead of r/smoking (35). Counts are averages over the last seven days.
Which cooking subreddit is best for questions?
r/cookingforbeginners is the one built around questions and advice, with about 15 new posts a day. Check its rules and search it first — common questions have usually been answered.
How many cooking communities are on this list?
We list 18 active, safe-for-work cooking communities with at least 25,000 members each, 30.5M members in total (people can be in several). Reddit has many smaller ones too; our guide on searching Reddit shows how to find them.
What is the oldest cooking subreddit?
r/Cooking, created on Jan 25, 2008.
Are these cooking subreddits safe for work?
Yes. Every community on this page is public and not marked 18+ by Reddit, and we filter out communities whose name or description points to adult content.
Data: Reddit's public subreddit search and the Arctic Shift archive (Oct 30, 2026), growth from SubMouse's weekly snapshots. Member counts of communities outside our Top 1000 come from the archive and can lag a little. Not affiliated with Reddit.