[seefresh]

Nah, they are very secretive with their site. The owner doesn't like to talk about his technology at all. I guess I can try and hire someone to do it, bu the way you guys are talking about it, I don't want to get a bad developer that kills my server.

It seems like if the query wasn't made until someone actually clicked the recipes drop down list by someone's username (via ajax), then it wouldn't be that intenseive. Would be like doing a search for someone's threads, but less intensive since it would just be from a few specific forums.