cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7558083

For recipes, questions, and all other general culinary discussion, please sub to !cooking@lemmy.world.

Hello everyone,

We're calling it. The vote posts in Cooking, AskCulinary, Food, and Recipes are all overwhelmingly in support of OPTION 1 so we're moving forward with that decision.

So what does this mean?

• !AskCulinary@lemmy.world, !Food@lemmy.world, and !Recipes@lemmy.world will all be locked until such time the user-base is large enough to support them. A pinned post will be in each community pointing everyone to !Cooking.
• !Cooking will be the place to be for all general cooking discussion, questions about cooking, and sharing recipes, so we are asking users of the other communities to sub if they aren't already.
• Mods will stay assigned to the other communities and we will periodically revisit to discuss reopening them. We are confident Lemmy as a whole will continue growing and we will be able to see every niche community thriving.
• The more niche communities such as BBQ, FoodPorn, SousVide, and KoreanFood will continue as they are, but we encourage posting in them as well as Cooking whenever relevant.
• The sidebar to !Cooking will be updated to reflect the changes as well as new rules for posting to help organize the different types of posts.

Thank you everyone for voting and taking part in this change. Any questions, please comment below and we will do our best to answer. Also, if you have any additional feedback, please let us know below as well.