r/veganrecipes: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

Who posts here

Recipes range from a five ingredient salad to homemade seitan and tofu made from soy milk. Questions about basics, like how to thicken a curry or whether to soak an ingredient first, get several patient answers and often a link to a recipe. Nothing is treated as too simple to ask, as long as it is about a recipe.

• Home cooks sharing what they made this week, with the recipe typed out.
• Food bloggers and recipe site owners posting a photo and a link to their own recipe.
• New vegans and people cooking for a vegan guest, asking how to replace cheese, eggs or meat in a dish.
• From-scratch enthusiasts troubleshooting seitan, tofu and plant-based cheese.
• Meal preppers swapping ideas for the week.

Karma and account requirements

What it takes to get a post through in r/veganrecipes.

What you can post

What happens to a new post

Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.

• Stayed up91%
• Removed by Reddit's filters<1%
• Held by AutoModerator9%
• Deleted by the author<1%

Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.

What happened when we posted here

We have posted here ourselves. This is how our own posts and comments fared.

Stayed up

96%

Removed by Reddit's filters

4%

Removed by moderators

0%

Period

October 2025 to July 2026

The rules, in the mods' words

1. 1

   Recipes must be vegan

   Recipes must be completely vegan. No animal products. No meat. No milk. No eggs. No honey. No optional cheese.. etc..

2. 2

   Posts must be correctly flaired

   All posts must be flaired with one of: "Recipe in Post" (post body or comments contain written recipe), "Link" (written recipe is accessed via a link in the post), or "Question" (recipe request or other question)

3. 3

   No reposting of recently posted recipes

   If the exact same recipe was posted within the last few months, please don't post it again

4. 4

   Respect the requests of the recipe creator

   If the recipe creator has expressed that they don't want their recipe to be redistributed, don't copy it into your post without permission. Linking to the original source is allowed.

These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.

The culture

r/veganrecipes has about 650,000 members and around 15 posts a day. It is a working recipe exchange, and the sidebar is firm that it is for recipes, not pictures of food. About 63% of posts are images and another 29% are text, and every one carries one of the three flairs: Link, Question, or Recipe in Post.

The format is simple. A photo of the finished dish, a short line about it, then either the full ingredients and method or a link to where the recipe lives. Titles are short, around five or six words, and usually just name the dish. Comfort food and seasonal cooking do well: soups, curries, baked goods, plant-based versions of familiar meat and cheese dishes.

Questions are about a quarter of posts and get the most conversation. Someone has a pile of eggplant, wants a creamier sauce, or cannot get homemade tofu to set, and people reply with what they cook themselves. The tone is kind. There is no visible argument running through the place, and nothing in the sample was removed by a moderator.

What lands

• A good photo with the whole recipe typed into the post. Most of the top posts in the sample use the Recipe in Post flair.
• A clever homemade version of something people usually buy. The top post, a recipe for fruit gummies with no added sugar, scored far above everything else.
• Seasonal comfort food posted at the right moment, like a creamy soup at the start of autumn.
• Plant-based takes on dishes people miss, such as a steak sandwich, lasagna or fish tacos.
• A specific request that lets everyone share a favourite, like high protein food you can eat straight from the fridge.

What gets removed or ignored

• We saw no moderator removals in the sample. The posts that did not appear were held by AutoModerator, about 8.5% of the total, and our data does not show what they had in common.
• By the rules: any recipe that is not fully vegan, including ones with honey or an optional dairy topping.
• By the rules: a photo or video with no written recipe, or a post with no flair or the wrong one.
• By the rules: a recipe that was already posted in the last few months, and a run of posts all from one website.

The unwritten rules

• Typing the recipe into the post beats linking out. Link posts are the most common type, but the highest scoring posts mostly have the recipe in the body.
• If you link, put the link in the body or the first comment and say that the written recipe is there. Regular posters do exactly this.
• Links are welcome in comments. About 10% of comments carry one, nearly always a recipe someone recommends.
• Keep product talk incidental. Naming a store-bought ingredient is fine. A question that is only about which packaged snack to buy is off the point of the subreddit.
• Plain food photos belong in a different subreddit, and members will tell you so politely.

Self-promotion

Linking to your own recipe site is allowed and has its own flair. The limits in the sidebar are that the linked page must contain the recipe itself, that you should not flood the subreddit with submissions from one website, and that other users and sites should get their place on the front page too. In practice recipe bloggers post here regularly, often several posts from the same site across the sample, and they stay up. What they share is a real recipe with a photo. If the creator of a recipe has asked for it not to be redistributed, link to the source instead of copying it in.

How people write here

Typical post length

80 words

Typical title length

6 words

Titles phrased as a question

21%

Typical comment length

17 words

Comments that include a link

10%

Posts that carry a flair

100%

Top keywords

The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/veganrecipes.

• recipe 136 posts
• vegan 129 posts
• ingredients 68 posts
• recipe video 30 posts
• tofu 56 posts
• oil 67 posts
• sauce 54 posts
• salt 56 posts
• garlic 49 posts
• written recipe 28 posts
• pepper 45 posts
• pan 40 posts
• crispy 33 posts
• onion 41 posts
• recipes 42 posts
• delicious 34 posts
• flour 33 posts
• soy 36 posts
• butter 36 posts
• olive oil 32 posts
• rice 37 posts
• teaspoon 23 posts
• cook 37 posts
• cup 40 posts
• potato 28 posts
• stir 25 posts
• heat 33 posts
• add 61 posts
• black pepper 22 posts
• soup 25 posts
• tbsp 24 posts
• chopped 23 posts
• soft 31 posts
• protein 33 posts
• taste 29 posts
• powder 29 posts
• oven 23 posts
• tablespoon 19 posts
• spices 21 posts
• chickpea 18 posts

Recurring topics: vegan, soup, cookies, curry, recipe, potato, tofu, beans, cake, recipes.

Growth

1. 20124.8k
2. 201311k
3. 201416k
4. 201524k
5. 201638k
6. 201769k
7. 2018133k
8. 2019227k
9. 2020315k
10. 2021370k
11. 2023500k
12. 2024536k
13. 2025602k
14. 2026646k

Related subreddits

• r/Cooking
• r/vegangifrecipes
• r/VegRecipes
• r/EatCheapAndVegan
• r/NYTCooking
• r/glutenfreevegan
• r/chinesecooking
• r/food
• r/AskCulinary
• r/Easy_Recipes

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