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r/Cooking

6.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.5K upvotes, which works out to 0 per 1,000 members.

0peak upvotes per 1,000 members
6.3Mmembers
1.5Kbest post
829most comments
302posts 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.

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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.

Spam, and I'm mad.

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 829 text 2026

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

↑ 921 πŸ’¬ 700 question 2026

Something I wish I could tell myself years ago: canned, frozen and dried veg are your friends

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Does anyone here use evaporated milk frequently? Is seems like an old school staple that’s somewhat fallen out of popularity

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I only have 3/4 cup of sugar, I need 1 cup. Can I substitute 1/4 cup of powdered sugar for brownies?

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Anyone likes your own food better than eating out?

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A unique solution to fixing spicy pepper/capsaicin hands

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

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How on EARTH do you cook bok choy

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What is the secret to a carbonara style sauce.

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Communities its size

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See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.