About r/pasta
In its own words:
For lovers of pasta. Homemade pasta, pasta making, pasta dishes, favorite non-chain restaurants, recipes, news and more.
Community guide
r/pasta (#828, about 1.3 million subscribers) — For lovers of pasta. Homemade pasta, pasta making, pasta dishes, favorite non-chain restaurants, recipes, news and more. A recent sample averaged 14 posts a day (~57% image, ~27% gallery, ~7% text). Its public rules include: Original Content and Recipes; Content; Be Civil; No Spam; No Shit Posting.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and ads are limited—read those rules before linking your own work. Civility rules are enforced; personal attacks get removed.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Homemade Dish, Pasta From Scratch, Restaurant, Homemade Dish - From Scratch.
The community was created on Nov 17, 2008, which makes it 17 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 613 subscribers (+0.05%). Among the 20 communities on our cooking list it is number 9 by size. It sits just behind r/beards (#827) and ahead of r/sadcringe (#829) in our ranking.
What sets r/pasta apart
Compared with other large communities, r/pasta leans heavily on images (57% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 22%).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/pasta grew from 1,278,724 to 1,283,281 subscribers (+4.6K, +0.36%). That is about 89 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/pasta this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- Once a week my kitchen becomes a one-woman pasta factoryu/3sch8ver13n · Nov 1 · gallery
- Calibrian chilli paste pasta.u/shahusenpai · Nov 2 · image
- Tagliatelle from scratch - as therapyu/hautecui · Nov 3 · gallery
- pasta for my bfu/Spirited-Concern5806 · Nov 7 · image
- Rigatoni with tomato, cream, and gochujang sauce 🌶u/blue_bubbles_08 · Nov 5 · image
- Probably the best pasta dish I’ve had in Koreau/LongjumpingPage6168 · Nov 3 · image
- chicken parmu/corundum9 · Nov 2 · image
- Home made noodles and mozzarella skullsu/AlternativeRub9382 · Nov 1 · gallery
- Linguine Amatricianau/Ggezbby · Nov 4 · image
- Linguine with oyster mushrooms, prosciutto and chicken*u/One-Loss-6497 · Nov 5 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/pasta, from 2021 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Got stoned, made spaghetti & meatballs from scratch 👌u/boucblanc · Jan 23, 2025 · gallery
- Real authentic Italian carbonarau/spookyboofy · Mar 15, 2025 · image
- Trying all normal priced pasta in my local italian supermarketu/gio_cgn · Jan 11, 2026 · gallery
- Started a pasta company - How's my display looking??u/somethingregal · Nov 11, 2024 · image
- i called this fancy mac & cheeses on r/food and people got upset.u/callmestinkingwind · Sep 20, 2026 · gallery
- Ravioli that look like napkins 😅 which I then decided to fryu/mc7070 · Jan 15, 2026 · gallery
- Burrata & tomato linguineu/blackarmbands · Oct 3, 2021 · 3,914 points · 137 comments · video
- I found an Impasta!u/dontthinkabouttitt · Nov 16, 2025 · image
- What pasta shape is this, we can’t figure it out??u/Chris-PlayZ- · Jan 4, 2026 · gallery
- Bi color pasta for making ossobuco agnolotti. Greetings from Argentina!u/Equal_Cricket_5543 · Aug 26, 2021 · 2,994 points · 59 comments · video
What r/pasta talks about
Looking at the titles of 101 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “spaghetti”, “sauce”, “garlic”, “carbonara” and “linguine”. Other frequent themes are homemade, ravioli, cheese, noodles, alfredo and chicken. Recurring phrases include “linguine amatriciana”, “carbonara con”, “con nduja” and “tomato sauce”. By format, 57% are images, 27% are galleries and 7% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Homemade Dish (35), Pasta From Scratch (18), Restaurant (15), Homemade Dish - From Scratch (9), Info (7), Recipe (5).
Activity and best time to post
r/pasta gets about 14 new posts a day. The public archive holds 31,387 posts and 270,928 comments in total, about 8.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (17 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (10). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 02:00 UTC.
Rules of r/pasta
The moderators of r/pasta list 8 rules. In short:
- Original Content and Recipes
- Content
- Be Civil
- No Spam
- No Shit Posting
- Absolutely No NSFW Content
- No Politics or Dietary Activism
- Food Related Posts Only
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/pasta 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/pasta have?
r/pasta has 1,283,281 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #828 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 4,557 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/pasta created?
r/pasta was created on Nov 17, 2008, so it has been around for 17 years.
Is r/pasta still active?
Yes. r/pasta gets about 14 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 31,387 posts and 270,928 comments. In a sample of 101 recent posts we counted 86 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/pasta?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 02:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/pasta?
The community describes itself as: “For lovers of pasta. Homemade pasta, pasta making, pasta dishes, favorite non-chain restaurants, recipes, news and more.” Recent post titles often mention spaghetti, sauce, garlic, carbonara and linguine. Most posts are images (57%).
Is r/pasta SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/pasta as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/pasta?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/pasta accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “Original Content and Recipes”; “Content”; “Be Civil”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/pasta?
Communities with similar topics include r/JapaneseFood (1.4M), r/recipes (3.6M), r/Cooking (6.3M), r/slowcooking (4.8M) and r/grilling (2.6M).
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/pasta.