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r/Cheese

r/Cheese is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #947 on SubMouse with 1,120,145 subscribers and about 15 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#947
Subscribers1.1M
Growth since Nov 2+0
Posts per day15
Posts all time42.4K
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About r/Cheese

Community guide

r/Cheese (#947, about 1.2 million) is the cheese lovers’ room—dairy and dairy-free alike—focused on appreciation and questions, not “is this still safe to eat?” panic posts.

What belongs

Cheese talk and photos (about 15 posts/day). Rules: no self-promo; all cheeses valid including dairy-free; don’t ask if your cheese is safe to eat; frequent reposts/low-effort shitposts may be removed.

Versus cooking and charcuterie

Those span whole meals. Cheese stays on the dairy (or alt) board itself.

Practical pointers

Ask style/pairing questions; take food-safety fears to proper guidance, not this sub.

Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 0 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/birdswitharms (#946) and ahead of r/raisedbynarcissists (#948) in our ranking.

What sets r/Cheese apart

Compared with other large communities, r/Cheese leans heavily on images (41% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 22%).

Subscriber growth

1.12M1.12MOct 29Nov 9, 2026

Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/Cheese went up from 1,119,440 to 1,120,145 subscribers (+705, +0.06%). That is about 64 new members per day. The chart shows 3 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/Cheese this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. World Series carry-in Cheese and Charcuterie Boardu/katiebot5000 · Nov 5 · gallery
  2. Happy 25th Birthdayu/Mwsouth · Nov 7 · image
  3. Day 2246 of posting images of cheese until I run out of cheese types: Glengarry Fenu/verysuspiciousduck · Nov 6 · image
  4. Day 2245 of posting images of cheese until I run out of cheese types: Bridge End Bloomyu/verysuspiciousduck · Nov 5 · image
  5. Yancey’s Fancy is now just posting AI slop 😭u/GetRealWeirdWithIt · Nov 4 · gallery
  6. A perfectly ripe Époisses, with pairingu/whoishomer · Nov 4 · image
  7. Day 2243 of posting images of cheese until I run out of cheese types: Blue Moou/verysuspiciousduck · Nov 2 · image
  8. Aunt brought this from Mexico. Queso adoberau/Darthsullen · Nov 2 · gallery
  9. Day 2244 of posting images of cheese until I run out of cheese types: Champfleuryu/verysuspiciousduck · Nov 3 · image
  10. Day 2247 of posting images of cheese until I run out of cheese types: Fleur-en-Laitu/verysuspiciousduck · Nov 7 · image

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/Cheese, from 2020 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. Hanna Lee, Young Cheesemonger of the Year, 2025u/bonniesansgame · Nov 13, 2025 · image
  2. Update: I opened my 15 year old Cougar Goldu/HerculesAmadeusAmore · Oct 19, 2025 · gallery
  3. These babybels taste like garbage.Jan 11, 2024 · image
  4. I got these for my birthday. Which should I eat and which should I age?u/Always_Reading_1990 · Feb 20, 2026 · image
  5. I made tufted grilled cheese wall artu/GremlynRugs · Nov 12, 2025 · gallery
  6. Day 1192 of posting images of cheese until I run out of cheese types: Tyrozouliu/verysuspiciousduck · Nov 16, 2023 · image
  7. Hope this project isn't too.. cheesy 😉🧀u/bmblebb · Oct 26, 2026 · image
  8. Emmentaler Boldu/abaganoush · Sep 22, 2025 · image
  9. For my wife’s birthday I made her a 6 cheese lasagna.u/ColHannibal · Oct 19, 2024 · image
  10. DJ'ed a wedding last night where the wedding cake was a cheese cake.u/lennyukdeejay · Oct 5, 2024 · image

What r/Cheese talks about

Looking at the titles of 102 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “cheeses”, “cheddar”, “images”, “run” and “types”. Other frequent themes are camembert, gouda, good, eating, eat and coming. Recurring phrases include “camembert coming”, “coming soon”, “fruit gift” and “help identifying”. By format, 41% are images, 27% are text posts and 17% are galleries.

  • cheeses 6
  • cheddar 6
  • images 6
  • run 6
  • types 6
  • camembert 5
  • gouda 4
  • good 4
  • eating 4
  • eat 4
  • coming 3
  • tried 3
  • fruit 3
  • soft 3
  • french 3
  • blue 3
  • safe 3
  • parmesan 2

Popular post flairs: Question (12), Advice (5), Feedback (4), Help (3), Ask (3), Cheese safety post - use the megathread (2).

Activity and best time to post

r/Cheese gets about 15 new posts a day. The public archive holds 42,423 posts and 460,205 comments in total, about 10.8 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (22 posts) and the quietest was Friday (10). Posting peaks around 03:00 UTC and is lowest around 10:00 UTC.

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Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Images 41%Text posts 27%Galleries 17%Links 13%Videos 2%

Rules of r/Cheese

The moderators of r/Cheese list 4 rules. In short:

  1. Self-promotion is not allowed.
  2. All cheeses are valid, including dairy-free ones.
  3. Don't post to ask about whether your cheese is safe to eat.
  4. Frequent reposts and low-effort shitposts may be removed without warning.

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/Cheese 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/Cheese have?

r/Cheese has 1,120,145 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #947 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 705 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How active is r/Cheese?

Moderately: r/Cheese gets about 15 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 42,423 posts and 460,205 comments. In a sample of 102 recent posts we counted 83 different authors.

When is r/Cheese most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Sunday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 03:00 UTC, with the fewest around 10:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/Cheese about?

r/Cheese is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention cheeses, cheddar, images, run and types. Most posts are images (41%).

Is r/Cheese safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Cheese as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/Cheese?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Cheese accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Self-promotion is not allowed.”; “All cheeses are valid, including dairy-free ones.”; “Don't post to ask about whether your cheese is safe to eat.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). 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/Cheese.

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