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Home cooking questions, meal prep, baking science, and budget eating. Food communities are welcoming, visual, and huge — great for recipe sites, kitchen products, and food content creators.
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/r/MealPrepSunday is a subreddit dedicated to meal prepping. This is a space to discuss all things about meal prepping. Whether you're looking to prep to save time, money, or to ge
r/Slowcooking is a food-related subreddit for sharing ideas, recipes or pictures in which a "Crock-Pot®" style slow cooker was used. Slow cooking is an ideal method for cooking les
For all your baking needs! Recipes, pictures, ideas, questions and all things baking related. Cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, breads, rolls, biscuits, cheesecakes, sn
Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit's community.
Welcome to /r/Grilling, a Subreddit for all Tips, Recipes, Pictures, and anything related to Grilling! Rules: Be respectful. this is a place to discuss grilling, not grill each o
Just moved into your first apartment and don't know a thing about cooking or have lived on your own for years and have existed on take out and fast food? Then this is the sub for y
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The home of pizza on reddit. An educational community devoted to the art of pizza making.
The internet's largest community of food industry professionals. Icon artwork by www.instagram.com/nowherelad
*Quality* photography, discussion, videos and recipes related to Japanese cuisine. Recipes and your homemade dishes are especially welcome.
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A place to get that "one right answer" to your cooking questions!
Indian Food is your step by step guide to simple and delicious home cooking. From regional Indian cuisine to popular dishes from around the globe, our community's focus is to make
Discuss any and everything BBQ. Have questions? Ask fellow pitmasters!
A place for redditors who meal prep to post their vegan or vegetarian meal prep creations.
Welcome to r/vegetarian, a community for anyone interested in a vegetarian diet. While you don’t have to be a vegetarian to participate, we ask that you respect the focus of our co
A community for sharing recipes for meals, drinks, snacks, and desserts that fit into a ketogenic diet. Questions about keto? Also check out /r/keto!
A community for sharing vegan recipes
We analyzed the published rules of these 21 communities: 6 prohibit self-promotion outright, 11 allow it only under conditions (designated threads, participation ratios, or moderator approval). The biggest audience is r/food with 24.5M members; note that r/MealPrepSunday is among those that explicitly ban promotional posts. Always open a community's rules link before posting — it takes a minute and protects your account.
Food Reddit is enormous, visual, and kind. r/Cooking answers technique questions without judgment, r/AskCulinary brings professional-kitchen rigor to specific problems, and communities like r/MealPrepSunday and r/EatCheapAndHealthy have built devoted followings around practical constraints. Original photos with recipes in the comments are the universal currency — post format matters, and most food subs require the recipe when you share a dish.
Food bloggers and kitchen brands: the audiences are ideal but the self-promotion lines are bright. Most food communities ban blog links in posts (recipe-in-comments culture exists partly as an anti-blogspam measure). What travels is the food itself — a genuinely great dish photographed honestly, recipe shared freely, blog mentioned only if asked. Kitchenware makers should watch r/BuyItForLife dynamics too; cast iron and knife threads shape purchases.
It's an anti-spam institution: requiring the full recipe in comments (rather than a blog link) keeps communities useful and stops recipe blogs from farming traffic. r/food removes posts whose recipes hide behind links. Share the complete recipe directly and communities respond warmly — including following links to your blog voluntarily afterward.
r/AskCulinary — it's staffed by professional cooks and serious amateurs who answer specific technique questions with precision (why your sauce broke, how to fix seizing chocolate). r/Cooking is better for open-ended questions and meal ideas. Both expect you to describe what you actually did; "it didn't work" gets follow-up questions, not answers.
r/food is the largest community in this niche with 24.5M members. The internet's number one place for original food images and more!
It depends on the community: of the 21 communities in this niche, 6 ban self-promotion entirely and 11 allow it only under specific conditions such as designated threads or participation requirements. Check the policy badge on each community's page here, then read the full rules on Reddit before posting.
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