About r/15minutefood
In its own words:
A sub for sharing food that can be made in around 15 minutes or less! Share recipes, links and experiences. Be nice to each other and have a good day!
Community guide
r/15minutefood (#260, about 3.8 million) shares food you can make in about 15 minutes—recipes, links, experiences. Rules require niceness, a full ingredients list plus steps in a comment on every submission, ban excessive self-promo and drinks (food only), demand respect for the time limit, and disallow videos. Image/Text (~0.4 ppd).
Recipe in the comments
Every post needs ingredients and steps in a comment—not just a pretty plate.
~15 minutes, food not drink
Stay inside the time promise; no drink posts; no videos per collected rules.
Practical pointers
Activity is extremely thin in this snapshot—confirm live norms before posting.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 23, 2019, which makes it 7 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 59 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/oddlyspecific (#259) and ahead of r/relationships (#261) in our ranking.
What sets r/15minutefood apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 3.7 comments per post, against 14.0 for a typical large subreddit. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.1 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.01% since Sep 19, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/15minutefood climbed from 3,795,788 to 3,796,256 subscribers (+468, +0.01%). That is about 11 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/15minutefood gets about 0.4 new posts a day. The public archive holds 18,913 posts and 69,734 comments in total, about 3.7 comments per post.
Rules of r/15minutefood
The moderators of r/15minutefood list 6 rules. In short:
- Be nice to each other!
- ALL submissions must also post a full list of ingredients and the recipe steps in a comment.
- No excessive self-promotion.
- Respect the subreddit name!
- Food - NOT DRINK!
- No videos
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/15minutefood and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/15minutefood have?
r/15minutefood has 3,796,256 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #260 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 468 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/15minutefood created?
r/15minutefood was created on Mar 23, 2019, so it has been around for 7 years.
Is r/15minutefood still active?
Moderately: r/15minutefood gets about 0.4 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 18,913 posts and 69,734 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/15minutefood?
The community describes itself as: “A sub for sharing food that can be made in around 15 minutes or less! Share recipes, links and experiences. Be nice to each other and have a good day!”
Is r/15minutefood SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/15minutefood as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/15minutefood?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/15minutefood accepts both text and link posts, with images, galleries and polls enabled. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “Be nice to each other!”; “ALL submissions must also post a full list of ingredients and the recipe steps in a comment.”; “No excessive self-promotion.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/15minutefood?
Communities with similar topics include r/HolUp (3.5M), r/recipes (3.6M), r/food (24.6M), r/GifRecipes (3.3M) and r/slowcooking (4.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/15minutefood.