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r/smoking

Enhancing food with wood smoke flavor

r/smoking is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #987 on SubMouse with 1,073,451 subscribers and about 36 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#987
Subscribers1.1M
Growth since Nov 2+1K
Posts per day36
Posts all time236.9K
CreatedJul 2008
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About r/smoking

In its own words:

A place to discuss techniques, tips, recipes, and pictures of smoking meats, vegetables, fruits, or anything else consumable.

Community guide

r/smoking (#988, about 1.1 million) is about flavoring food with wood smoke—techniques, tips, recipes and pictures of smoked meats, vegetables, fruit or anything else edible—not cigarette or smoke-inhalation talk.

What belongs

Cooks and pit photos (about 36 posts/day; galleries, text and images). The rules are short: no pictures of labels or prices, no pictures of charcoal bags, and no smoke-inhalation content.

Versus food, recipes and slowcooking

food, recipes and slowcooking overlap on home cooking. This room is specifically barbecue-style smoking.

Practical pointers

Share the cook, not the price tag or a bag of fuel.

The community was created on Jul 28, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,000 subscribers (+0.09%). Among the 20 communities on our cooking list it is number 11 by size. It sits just behind r/melbourne (#986) and ahead of r/spain (#988) in our ranking. Reddit files it under the “food” category and its main language is English.

What sets r/smoking apart

Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (17:00 UTC) sees about 10.0× as many posts as the quietest (08:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

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Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/smoking climbed from 1,065,782 to 1,073,451 subscribers (+7.7K, +0.72%). That is about 150 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/smoking this week

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

  1. First time dino ribs on the WSMu/paintedhighway · Nov 5 · gallery
  2. Am I a Genius or Will my Family Die?u/KaMiKaZi_t0M · Nov 6 · image
  3. Practice turkey looks pretty good.u/tailgatemad · Nov 1 · image
  4. Guys im smoking my first brisket!!u/Spiritual-Win2801 · Nov 4 · image
  5. What do i do with that big pocket of fat right thereu/Awesomedad4henry · Nov 5 · image
  6. I had an idea and it came out great: Al Pastor Smoked Turkey breastu/OckhamsRazor15 · Nov 6 · gallery
  7. Nothing beats meatloaf on a cool fall dayu/FulIChubb · Nov 2 · gallery
  8. I ain’t mad at it.u/Slight_Owl_8292 · Nov 7 · video
  9. Hot holding is a game changer.u/deez_blank · Nov 2 · image
  10. Texas Twinkiesu/DueUnderstanding1371 · Nov 6 · image

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/smoking, from 2021 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. My daughter is learning the right things in Texas High School.u/rtothewin · Aug 14, 2025 · image
  2. Anyone else spend $150, get up at 3 am, smoke all day, nail the cook…and have no desire to eat BBQ for dinner?u/Bassmasa · Aug 30, 2026 · gallery
  3. From Twitter- "My Korean Dad Smokes Pulled Pork for the First Time." This looks amazingly delicious.u/Bosuns_Punch · Sep 4, 2025 · video
  4. He's among usu/Single-Ninja8886 · Jul 20, 2026 · image
  5. Wife did it againu/Few-Equivalent-1924 · Jul 11, 2025 · gallery
  6. Turning 30 in a couple months. Welp. 🥲u/Nathan_W_Adamson · Aug 22, 2024 · image
  7. I Smoked a 5 pound block of Cheddar cheese.u/LegoDwarf120 · Sep 27, 2024 · image
  8. I thought this belonged hereu/Inaccurate93 · Nov 2, 2023 · video
  9. Two years ago we bought a whole cow. We are still eating it. Details inside.u/EngineerDirector · Jan 11, 2025 · image
  10. My 15 Year Old at Work. He's been Up Since 4am. I'm Such A Proud Mam. Swipe To See The Pork Shoulder Roast.u/Theinfamousluxlover · Jan 18, 2026 · gallery

What r/smoking talks about

We read the titles of 240 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “smoked”, “pork”, “brisket”, “smoker” and “turkey”. Other frequent themes are ribs, chili, smoke, beef, bacon and cold. Recurring phrases include “pulled pork”, “smoked turkey”, “beef rib” and “pork belly”. By format, 36% are galleries, 28% are text posts and 25% are images.

  • smoked 26
  • pork 24
  • brisket 17
  • smoker 16
  • turkey 16
  • ribs 15
  • chili 11
  • smoke 8
  • beef 7
  • bacon 6
  • cold 6
  • rib 6
  • meat 6
  • advice 6
  • pulled 6
  • cook 5
  • offset 5
  • looking 4

Activity and best time to post

r/smoking gets about 36 new posts a day. The public archive holds 236,913 posts and 2,777,448 comments in total, about 11.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Sunday (48 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (17). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.

00: 100001: 1602: 903: 30304: 905: 506: 80607: 408: 209: 50910: 311: 812: 31213: 714: 1615: 151516: 1317: 2018: 121819: 1620: 1021: 102122: 2023: 15
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Galleries 36%Text posts 28%Images 25%Links 6%Videos 5%

Rules of r/smoking

The moderators of r/smoking list 3 rules. In short:

  1. No pics of labels/prices
  2. No pics of bags of charcoal
  3. No smoke inhalation

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/smoking 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 members does r/smoking have?

r/smoking has 1,073,451 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #987 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 7,669 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How old is r/smoking?

r/smoking was created on Jul 28, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from May 18, 2009.

How active is r/smoking?

Very active: r/smoking gets about 36 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 236,913 posts and 2,777,448 comments. In a sample of 240 recent posts we counted 222 different authors.

When is r/smoking most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Sunday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/smoking about?

The community describes itself as: “A place to discuss techniques, tips, recipes, and pictures of smoking meats, vegetables, fruits, or anything else consumable.” Recent post titles often mention smoked, pork, brisket, smoker and turkey. Most posts are galleries (36%).

Is r/smoking safe for work?

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

How do I post on r/smoking?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/smoking accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 3 posted rules, starting with: “No pics of labels/prices”; “No pics of bags of charcoal”; “No smoke inhalation”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Which communities are like r/smoking?

Communities with similar topics include r/JapaneseFood (1.4M), r/slowcooking (4.8M), r/recipes (3.6M), r/cookingforbeginners (2.2M) and r/burgers (1.5M).

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/smoking.

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