r/recipes
r/recipes is a Food & Cooking community on Reddit with 3,543,027 members, ranking #10 of 2,151 in Food & Cooking. Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.
How big is r/recipes?
Created in 2008, r/recipes has had over a decade to grow and is a major community by Reddit standards. Within Food & Cooking it ranks #10 of 2,151 communities we track — the top 0.5% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 1,717× 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 7 times the size of r/recipes. 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/recipes on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.
| Members | 3,543,027 |
|---|---|
| Category | Food & Cooking |
| Rank in category | #10 of 2,151 |
| Created | 2008 |
| Category median size | 2,063 members |
| Content rating | Work-safe (SFW) |
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