r/Cooking

6.3M members
r/Cooking is a subreddit with 6.3M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and ideas, and the community frequently discusses cooking, struggling, struggle, recipe, and hate, and they frequently recommend/review frying pan, seasonings, and pepper grinder.

Popular Themes in r/Cooking

#1
Advice Requests
: "What do I do with the rest of a head of celery if a recipe just calls for one rib?"
45 posts
#2
Ideas
: "Themed Dinner Ideas"
4 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "A unique solution to fixing spicy pepper/capsaicin hands"
3 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "$3 J Dean Bacon vs $9 Wright for bacon wrapped blue cheese brats"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/Cooking

#1

Cooking

40 posts
#2

Struggling

24 posts
#3

Struggle

18 posts
#4

Recipe

16 posts
#5

Hate

10 posts
#6

Recipes

9 posts
#7

Sauce

3 posts
#8

Gifts

2 posts
#9

Food

2 posts
#10

Fish

2 posts

Products Discussed in r/Cooking

Frying Pan

236 reviews
#1
All-Clad
4.7 from 42 reviews
#2
Tramontina
4.5 from 19 reviews
#3
Lodge
4.8 from 12 reviews

Seasonings

220 reviews
#1
Old Bay
4.6 from 19 reviews
#2
Lawry's
4.3 from 8 reviews
#3
Kinder's
4.4 from 7 reviews

Pepper Grinder

195 reviews
#1
Peugeot
4.8 from 46 reviews
#2
Unicorn
4.7 from 32 reviews
#3
Cole & Mason
4.6 from 18 reviews

Member Growth in r/Cooking

Yearly
+367k members(6.2%)

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Last updated: August 29, 2026