r/Foodforthought
r/Foodforthought is a Food & Cooking community on Reddit with 466,385 members, ranking #85 of 2,151 in Food & Cooking. Intelligent and thought-provoking commentaries on life and culture with an emphasis on longform articles and essays that stimulate intellectual discourse.
How big is r/Foodforthought?
Created in 2009, r/Foodforthought has had over a decade to grow and is a large community by Reddit standards. Within Food & Cooking it ranks #85 of 2,151 communities we track — the top 4% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 226× 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 53 times the size of r/Foodforthought. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2009 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/Foodforthought on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.
| Members | 466,385 |
|---|---|
| Category | Food & Cooking |
| Rank in category | #85 of 2,151 |
| Created | 2009 |
| Category median size | 2,063 members |
| Content rating | Work-safe (SFW) |
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