r/Old_Recipes

Updated 2026-10-24

r/Old_Recipes is a Food & Cooking community on Reddit with 544,325 members, ranking #75 of 2,151 in Food & Cooking. Old recipes are interesting and sometimes amazing. Please share yours here.

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How big is r/Old_Recipes?

Created in 2019, r/Old_Recipes has had 7 years to grow and is a large community by Reddit standards. Within Food & Cooking it ranks #75 of 2,151 communities we track — the top 3.5% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 264× 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 45 times the size of r/Old_Recipes. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2019 sits in the later 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/Old_Recipes on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.

Members544,325
CategoryFood & Cooking
Rank in category#75 of 2,151
Created2019
Category median size2,063 members
Content ratingWork-safe (SFW)

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