r/Cooking
r/Cooking is a Food & Cooking community on Reddit with 6,212,653 members, ranking #3 of 2,151 in Food & Cooking. #####Please read these 1. All posts must be cooking related. After all, this is **/r/Cooking**. The name kind of says it all. If the topic is questionable, then it most likely isn't OK to post. Content about or written/developed by AI such as ChatGPT will be removed as well. 2. Include plain text recipes for any food that you post, either in the post or in a comment. We love to see your food, but
How big is r/Cooking?
Created in 2008, r/Cooking has had over a decade to grow and is one of the largest communities on Reddit by Reddit standards. Within Food & Cooking it ranks #3 of 2,151 communities we track — the top 0.1% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 3,011× the median Food & Cooking subreddit, which has 2,063 members. It is a work-safe community with no 18+ flag on Reddit.
For scale, the largest Food & Cooking community we track is r/food with 24,528,486 members — roughly 4 times the size of r/Cooking. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2008 sits in the early wave of community building on the platform. Subscriber counts indicate reach, not activity — a large community can be quiet, and a smaller one busy. Open r/Cooking on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.
| Members | 6,212,653 |
|---|---|
| Category | Food & Cooking |
| Rank in category | #3 of 2,151 |
| Created | 2008 |
| Category median size | 2,063 members |
| Content rating | Work-safe (SFW) |
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