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r/UK_Food

A home for food across the UK. A place to talk about anything to do with food within the UK. From anything from your Nan's casserole to that 5* meal you had last week! Post recipes, ask questions and give general recommendations here. Founded 2018 · 402.9K members

404.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 19.2K upvotes, which works out to 47 per 1,000 members.

47peak upvotes per 1,000 members
404.8Kmembers
19.2Kbest post
7Kmost comments
411posts 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.

60% 31%
Image 60% Gallery 31% Question 5% Text 4%

The topics it labels

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

Homemade / home assembled 236 Question 52 Homemade 49 Restaurant/Pub 47 Misc 5 Advice 4 Takeaway 4 Sloppy Saturday 4 Theme 4 Fastfood 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Canadian attempting UK food

↑ 19.2K 💬 2.6K image 2023

Best. Breakfast. Ever.

↑ 15.3K 💬 910 image 2022

American Here. UK what the heck? I've only seen other people make fun of it so I tried it myself. This stuff was actually fricken so good.

↑ 12.3K 💬 2.8K image 2024

25 years old and finally cooked my first Roast Dinner

↑ 11.5K 💬 880 image 2024

It can get a bit lonely being a single dad, but then I remember I can eat whatever I like. Sundays are for steak !

↑ 10.7K 💬 514 image 2024

89 year old mum's Sunday roast... still smashing it!

↑ 9.7K 💬 522 image 2026

Sometimes I like to make a sandwich out of my mini pork pies and I'm not sure if I should be hated for it or not.

↑ 9.1K 💬 1.3K image 2023

Mature Red Leicester, ham, tomatoes, lettuce and branston pickle on tiger bread.

↑ 8.7K 💬 404 image 2023

Today we tried making Cottage Pie (Smashed potatoes, cheese, meat and vegetables). Greetings from Mexico, hopefully we'll have a great game on Sunday.

↑ 8.3K 💬 587 image 2026

Rate my roast potatoes

↑ 8.2K 💬 1.3K video 2024

Communities its size

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

r/UK_Food, in numbers

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

What is r/UK_Food?
r/UK_Food ("A home for food across the UK") describes itself this way: A place to talk about anything to do with food within the UK. From anything from your Nan's casserole to that 5* meal you had last week! Post recipes, ask questions and give general recommendations here. It was founded in 2018 and has 402.9K members.
How many members does r/UK_Food have?
r/UK_Food has about 404.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 411 of its posts; the biggest reached 19.2K upvotes, which is 47 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/UK_Food?
"Canadian attempting UK food" reached 19.2K upvotes and 2.6K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/UK_Food.
What subreddits are similar to r/UK_Food?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/UK_Food?
Of the posts we hold, 60% are image posts and 31% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/UK_Food?
Across 411 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 11:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/UK_Food?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/UK_Food has 5.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 49 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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