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r/Sourdough

Ask for help/advice/share knowledge/tips/recipes & discuss! As an educational community, we love to see Sourdough pictures accompanied by the ingredients & process usedπŸ’‘Click JOIN for our welcome message. Founded 2010 Β· 763K members

755.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.4K upvotes, which works out to 27 per 1,000 members.

27peak upvotes per 1,000 members
755.9Kmembers
20.4Kbest post
730most comments
100posts 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.

49% 35% 15%
Gallery 49% Image 35% Video 15% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Sourdough 25 I MUST share this recipe 9 Let's discuss/share knowledge 7 Let's talk technique 7 Rate/critique my bread 5 Toast me - say something nice please 4 Beginner - checking how I'm doing 4 Things to try 4 Everything help πŸ™ 2 Roast me! Harsh feedback pls 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Everyone can go home, I have made the perfect loaf

↑ 20.4K πŸ’¬ 730 gallery 2025

Just baked my first ever sourdough loaf!

↑ 14.1K πŸ’¬ 522 gallery 2026

Update on grandma's starter that spent 10 years in the freezer: IT'S ALIVE!

↑ 9K πŸ’¬ 102 image 2025

Mentioned that I want to bake sourdough to my parents and my mom remembered that they had a frozen starter that my grandma used to use for her rye br…

↑ 8.4K πŸ’¬ 328 image 2025

my mom had her grand opening for her bakery stand today πŸ’—

↑ 7.1K πŸ’¬ 117 gallery 2025

Happy Early Valentines Day!

↑ 6.5K πŸ’¬ 36 gallery 2025

Final update on grandma's 10 year old frozen starter: the loaf!

↑ 6.3K πŸ’¬ 54 gallery 2025

Running out of scoring ideas...

↑ 6.3K πŸ’¬ 132 gallery 2025

Here’s another video of me shaping sourdough. I added some music this time because baking is rock ’n roll.

↑ 5.9K πŸ’¬ 242 video 2020

Sourdough teaching you to not believe everything you see in the internet

↑ 5.3K πŸ’¬ 132 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Sourdough, in numbers

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

What is r/Sourdough?
r/Sourdough describes itself this way: Ask for help/advice/share knowledge/tips/recipes & discuss! As an educational community, we love to see Sourdough pictures accompanied by the ingredients & process usedπŸ’‘Click JOIN for our welcome message. It was founded in 2010 and has 763K members.
How many members does r/Sourdough have?
r/Sourdough has about 755.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 20.4K upvotes, which is 27 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Sourdough?
"Everyone can go home, I have made the perfect loaf" reached 20.4K upvotes and 730 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Sourdough.
What subreddits are similar to r/Sourdough?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/Sourdough?
Of the posts we hold, 49% are gallery posts and 35% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Sourdough?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 22:00 UTC (9.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 18:00 UTC (5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 14:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/Sourdough?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Sourdough has 4.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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