BBQ Search was started because of the vast amount of information that has been created by The BBQ Forum. The beginnings of BBQ Search was an attempt to organize this information. Now bbqsearch.com has a search engine on it with over 350,000 messages in it. A lot of the links on this web page were created because of posts to the The BBQ Forum. has had over 500,000 messages posted to it since 1995. The Grill Forum is a relative new forum that focuses on Grilling as apposed to the slow cooking that is discussed on The BBQ Forum. The The Other Forum was created to allow the people who frequent The BBQ Forum a place where they can talk about non-cooking topics.