r/slowcooking
r/slowcooking is a Food & Cooking community on Reddit with 4,735,373 members, ranking #6 of 2,151 in Food & Cooking. r/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 tender and tasty than by other forms of cookery. Vegetarian and vegan dishes can also be made via slow cooking. - crockpot, slowcooker, crock, crock-pot, slow cooker
How big is r/slowcooking?
Created in 2010, r/slowcooking has had over a decade to grow and is a major community by Reddit standards. Within Food & Cooking it ranks #6 of 2,151 communities we track — the top 0.3% of the category by subscriber count. That puts it about 2,295× 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 5 times the size of r/slowcooking. Reddit itself launched in 2005, so a subreddit created in 2010 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/slowcooking on Reddit to see how often people actually post before deciding whether it is worth joining.
| Members | 4,735,373 |
|---|---|
| Category | Food & Cooking |
| Rank in category | #6 of 2,151 |
| Created | 2010 |
| Category median size | 2,063 members |
| Content rating | Work-safe (SFW) |
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