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r/slowcooking

4.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.7K upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.7Mmembers
4.7Kbest post
5.2Kmost comments
300posts 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.

28% 26% 24% 10% 10%
Text 28% Question 26% Image 24% Link 10% Gallery 10% Video 2%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Pot roast for dinner

↑ 4.7K 💬 651 gallery 2026

Does anyone know how I can get the sharpie off this? I’ve tried alcohol pads.

↑ 4.5K 💬 5.2K image 2026

picked this up yesterday, brand new in its original packaging. what should i make first?!

↑ 1.6K 💬 311 image 2026

Beef stew, left on high for 4 hours by mistake.

↑ 1.3K 💬 207 image 2026

Japanese Curry

↑ 1.3K 💬 39 image 2026

Update: Beef stew left on high.

↑ 1.2K 💬 49 image 2026

Have I made a terrible mistake?

↑ 1.1K 💬 181 image 2026

Swamp potatoes

↑ 1K 💬 98 image 2026

The best pot roast I’ve ever had

↑ 972 💬 61 image 2026

Slow cooker corn chowder

↑ 943 💬 38 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/slowcooking, in numbers

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

How many members does r/slowcooking have?
r/slowcooking has about 4.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.7K upvotes, which is 1 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/slowcooking?
"Pot roast for dinner" reached 4.7K upvotes and 651 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/slowcooking.
What subreddits are similar to r/slowcooking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/slowcooking?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are text posts and 26% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/slowcooking?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 21:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 21:00 UTC (864 avg upvotes), Saturday at 21:00 UTC (432 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/slowcooking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/slowcooking has 408 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 79 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/slowcooking, 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.