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r/Cooking

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

6.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.9K upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
6.3Mmembers
7.9Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
1.6Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 46%
Text 54% Question 46%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Food Safety 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat completely changed how I cook.

↑ 7.9K 💬 891 text 2026

Found out recently that i've been wasting half the flavor of every spice I own

↑ 5.8K 💬 294 text 2026

Spam, and I'm mad.

↑ 1.5K 💬 829 text 2026

Listen, I know BLTs are perfect, but what are some twists you use to make them MORE perfect?

↑ 1.4K 💬 2.8K question 2026

Crazy San Marzano deal - Costco

↑ 1.2K 💬 169 text 2026

Is it normal for parents to not teach you how to cook?

↑ 1K 💬 1.3K question 2026

Dish to cook at broke friend's house

↑ 950 💬 502 text 2026

What's a food trend that went away, but you still like to cook and eat?

↑ 932 💬 936 question 2026

Question for cooks, what makes a $40 plate of pasta at a restaurant worth it?

↑ 921 💬 700 question 2026

Great Value Frozen Organic Triple Berry Blend sold at Walmart in 16 states recalled due to possible E. Coli contamination

↑ 747 💬 37 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Cooking, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/Cooking have?
r/Cooking has about 6.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.6K of its posts; the biggest reached 7.9K upvotes, which is 1 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Cooking?
"Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat completely changed how I cook." reached 7.9K upvotes and 891 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Cooking.
What subreddits are similar to r/Cooking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/law, r/perfectlycutscreams.
What kind of posts do best on r/Cooking?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are text posts and 46% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Cooking?
Across 1.6K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (928 avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (349 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (178 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Cooking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Cooking has 503 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 802 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Cooking, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.