Best Cooking Subreddits

Largest communities first, with fastest-growing subreddits highlighted separately.

Best Cooking Reddit Communities

This guide highlights the largest and fastest-growing cooking subreddits for home cooks, recipe hunters, and food creators. FreeSubStats tracks 93 Cooking & Recipes communities with 91,931,540 combined members, so the list uses live subreddit analytics instead of a static editorial snapshot.

Cooking & Recipes subreddits show ↗ +0.56% average daily growth and ↗ +2.01% average weekly growth. Net tracked movement is +33,384 members today and +103,375 members this week.

For the full sortable directory, open the Cooking & Recipes subreddit analytics page.

How This List Is Built

Largest cooking subreddits are ranked by current member count

Fastest-growing communities are highlighted separately by weekly growth rate

Each entry links to a live analytics page with history, related subreddits, and current stats

Cooking Subreddit Snapshot

Tracked Subreddits

Total Members

91,931,540

Daily Growth

↗ +0.56%

Weekly Growth

↗ +2.01%

Largest Cooking Subreddits

r/food

The internet's number one place for original food images and more!

Members

24,462,433

Weekly

↗ +0.02%

r/EatCheapAndHealthy

Eating healthy on a cheap budget

Members

11,426,769

Weekly

↗ +0.03%

r/FoodPorn

Simple, attractive & visual. Nothing suggestive or inappropriate, this is a safe for work subreddit.

Members

8,592,183

Weekly

↗ +0.01%

r/Cooking

A large cooking subreddit tracked by FreeSubStats.

Members

5,897,023

Weekly

↗ +0.04%

r/foodhacks

Food hacks is a place to share quick and simple tips on making food that has more flavor, more nutritional value, or both!

Members

5,784,259

Weekly

↗ +0.05%

r/MealPrepSunday

/r/MealPrepSunday is a subreddit dedicated to meal prepping. This is a space to discuss all things about meal prepping. Whether you're looking to prep to save time, money, or to get in those gains, this is the place to ask questions, get answers, and share your meal preps with the world of Reddit! Happy prepping!

Members

5,688,657

Weekly

↗ +0.05%

r/recipes

Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.

Members

3,523,959

Weekly

↗ +0.03%

r/StupidFood

A place to lambast idiotic methods of serving food, or any other epicurean inanity worthy of ridicule.

Members

2,749,397

Weekly

↗ +0.20%

r/grilling

Welcome to /r/Grilling, a Subreddit for all Tips, Recipes, Pictures, and anything related to Grilling! Rules: Be respectful. this is a place to discuss grilling, not grill each other. NO SPAM If you're a bot account or you're spamming your youtube channel or what not, your account will be banned immediately. We want original content only! that means something you made or bought or ate or saw, etc.

Members

2,501,505

Weekly

↗ +0.13%

#10

r/cookingforbeginners

Just moved into your first apartment and don't know a thing about cooking or have lived on your own for years and have existed on take out and fast food? Then this is the sub for you! Learn how to cook simple recipes for yourself and find it isn't as hard as you think it is. Post your questions about cooking and links to easy recipes and basic techniques. Come to learn or to teach. Join us on Discord! https://discord.gg/FfKqrtZ Related subs: /r/Cooking /r/AskCulinary

Members

2,100,735

Weekly

↗ +0.13%