Lifestyle, food & advice

r/Cooking stats

r/Cooking has 6,327,989 members and gets about 64.3 new posts a day. The best time to post is Tuesday around 4pm US Eastern.

Members
6.3M
Posts per day
64.3
Avg comments
50.1
Created
2008

From the subreddit: #####Please read these 1. All posts must be cooking related. After all, this is **/r/Cooking**. The name kind of says it all. If the topic is questionable, then it most likely isn't OK to post. Content about or written/developed by AI such as ChatGPT will be removed as well. 2. Include plain text recipes for any food that you post, either in the post or in a comment. We love to see your food, but we also want to try it if we wish to. 3. No memes allowed. Not even cooking related memes. Not

Best time to post on r/Cooking

When this month's top 100 posts went up, weighted by score. Times are US Eastern.

  1. #1

    Tue 4pm

  2. #2

    Tue 10pm

  3. #3

    Thu 9am

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Who buys on r/Cooking

People asking for advice on food, money, style, travel, careers and relationships. Buyers ask for product and service recommendations here every day.

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Common questions

r/Cooking has 6,327,989 members, read from Reddit on October 29, 2026.

Based on when this month's top posts went up, Tuesday around 4pm US Eastern. Check the heatmap for runner-up slots.

It gets about 64.3 new posts a day, and a new post averages 50.1 comments.

Read the subreddit rules first; most business subreddits remove promotional posts. What works is answering posts where someone asks for help, being genuinely useful, and disclosing when you mention your own product.

Watch for posts where someone asks for a recommendation, a quote, or an alternative to a tool. Leadhoot watches r/Cooking for you, scores every new post 0–100 for buyer intent, and alerts you within a minute of the high scorers.

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