Episode 1
Aired May 30, 2017
Old School, New School
Carolina-style barbecue is all about pork and Rodney Scott is the whole hog boss; Roger checks out Rodney's impressive new pit room where whole hogs get cooked low and slow; Rodney hits the hogs with his secret.
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Episode 2
Aired Jun 6, 2017
Swine Dining
Roger visits Liberty Kitchen in Houston, Texas, where Chef Lance Fegen has built a wood-fired Argentinian grill; they prepare a traditional Balinese pig roast and enjoy Mexican pork asado tacos; Roger visits Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview, N.C.
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Episode 3
Aired Jun 13, 2017
Generations of Smoke
Roger visits Burns Original BBQ in Houston, Texas, and meets Grandpa Roy Burns, who started the business in 1973 to help support his nine children, and his family, who welcome Roger with open arms.
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Episode 4
Aired Jun 20, 2017
Out of This World BBQ
Roger meets a pit master with a PhD who cooks Carolina-style whole hog barbecue in Louisiana; Dr. Howard Conyers is an engineer for NASA by day, but a pit master at night, on weekends, and every moment in between.
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Episode 5
Aired Jun 27, 2017
Fueling the Fires in Texas
Roger visits the Lone Star State, and visits Grant Pinkerton to sample some one-of-a-kind cuts, including seasoning and barbecuing two whole goats; Roger meets up with chef Andrew Wiseheart, who slow-spins whole seasoned chicken over coals.
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Episode 6
Aired Jul 4, 2017
Where There's Smoke
At Bin Tapas Bar in San Antonio, Texas, Roger and Chef Jason Dady cook paella flavored with Thai ingredients and cooked over a wood burning fire; they also grill up chicken and eggplant marinated in lemongrass, ginger, Thai chilis and fresh herbs.
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Episode 7
Aired Jul 11, 2017
Monster Meat
Roger heads to Hoodoo Brown Barbeque in Ridgefield, CT, where owner Cody Sperry serves up monster-sized meaty masterpieces; Roger is introduced to Hogzilla, a towering sandwich with BBQ ranch dressing, fried green tomato and coleslaw.
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Episode 8
Aired Jul 25, 2017
Meat in Music City
At Urban Grub, Roger witnesses as Chef Edgar Pendley fans the flames in a massive 18-foot-tall hearth and hangs a wall of house-made andouille sausages and pork ribs; Whole hog barbecue is the main attraction at Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint.
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Episode 9
Aired Jul 18, 2017
Meaty Marvels
Roger visits Rockin Rodizio, where they load rotisseries with pastrami pork ribs, tomahawk steaks, and even cinnamon rolls topped with whiskey icing; Roger heads to Brooklyn for traditional North Carolina-style whole hog barbecue in the Big Apple.
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Episode 10
Aired Aug 1, 2017
Revolutionary Roasts
Roger meets up with two chefs who show off their radical rigs on opposite ends of the country; in Great Barrington, Mass., Roger puts the pedal to the metal on Jeremy Stanton's Rotisserie Bike, a stationary bike that can turn up to 12 spits at once.
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Episode 11
Aired Aug 8, 2017
Heavy Metal Meat
In Algoma, Wis., Roger meets the Schmiling brothers, who use a cinder block pit and metal grates to roast a whole steer; Roger meets Jason Elvis Heard, an engineering consultant who built a record-breaking rig called Mega Pit.
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Episode 12
Aired Aug 15, 2017
Crazy Contraptions
Roger goes coast to coast to check out crazy custom contraptions; Roger gets to play with a custom-built meat swing set in West Sacramento, Calif.; Roger and Beau slow-cook a whole hog and vegetables over a 12-foot-long wood fire.
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Episode 13
Aired Aug 22, 2017
Heating It Up in Hawaii
Chef Roger Mooking highlights the inventive ways Americans cook with fire; from small campfires to custom-made grills and smokers, he visits the home cooks, pitmasters and chefs who are fascinated by fire and food.
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Episode 14
Aired Jan 3, 2018
Fire Festivals
Roger visits a church picnic serving nearly four tons of meat; Roger stops by a Wisconsin winery, where they've built a contraption to roast a steer; Roger visits a New England fish festival, where they scorch 300 pounds of shad on upright boards.
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Episode 15
Aired Jan 10, 2018
Top 5 BBQ Chicken
One chef shows Roger how to hang up and hand-spin chickens with a special device; a Carolina legend dips barbecued birds in an out-of-this-world white sauce; Roger savors Jamaican jerk chicken loaded with Caribbean heat.
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Episode 16
Aired Jan 17, 2018
Whole Animals
Roger learns an ancient Argentine method of roasting lamb; he catches a six-foot sturgeon and stuffs it to the gills with fresh veggies for an outdoor feast; a pitmaster shows Roger his new high-tech rigs, capable of cooking a room full of hogs.
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Episode 17
Aired Jan 24, 2018
Fishing for Fire
Chief Don Ivy of the Coquille Indian Tribe shows Roger how to roast 200 pounds of salmon on sticks; Roger visits Old Post Office Restaurant, where they cook fish in a cauldron; Roger helps a father-daughter team bake whole fish in a huge salt bed.
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Episode 18
Aired Jan 31, 2018
Women Fire Food
A San Francisco chef shows Roger her rig made from plumbing pipes, which she uses to roast her Salpicao chicken; a Tennessee queen of the 'cue shows him how she smokes a meat more likely to be found in a lunchbox than in a smokehouse.
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Episode 19
Aired Feb 7, 2018
Meat Mania
Roger visits pitmasters cooking meat in massive quantities; Roger heads to San Antonio to fire up an altar of meat in over 600-degree heat; he skewers a deep green chorizo verde and Mexican-style cabrito -- an entire milk-fed goat.
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Episode 20
Aired Feb 14, 2018
Pig Out
Roger is going hog wild for insane pig roasts across the country; Roger is in Hawaii to roast a whole pig in a traditional underground oven called an imu; the community comes together to cook the pig with lava rock and a layer of local vegetation.
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Episode 21
Aired Feb 21, 2018
Surf and Turf
A Miami chef shows Roger a unique rig he built himself that allows him to roast, grill and saute over hot coals; Roger helps him grill juicy pork packed with adobo-inspired flavors and prepare a seafood-studded paella in a party-sized pan.
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Episode 22
Aired Feb 28, 2018
Smokin' Sides and Sweets
No cookout is complete without some outrageous side dishes and crave-worthy desserts; Roger Mooking is putting the main course aside to honor everything that tops off the best barbecue meals.
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Episode 23
Aired Mar 7, 2018
Top 5 BBQ Between the Bread
Roger Mooking is letting barbecue pork sandwiches hog the spotlight; Hoodoo Brown Barbeque in Ridgefield, Conn., where they serve a meaty masterpiece loaded with pork belly and pulled pork; Bigmista's Barbecue and Sammich Shop.
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Episode 24
Aired Mar 14, 2018
Insane Inventions
Roger Mooking heads just outside Death Valley to cook on a true, fire-breathing barbecue pit; Roger lands in Kansas City, Mo., for a test flight in Swine Flew, an airplane converted by two mechanics into a fully functioning barbecue grill.
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Episode 25
Aired Mar 21, 2018
Pit Bosses
Roger Mooking is honoring the legendary pitmasters who make some of the country's best barbecue; Roger gets cooking with the man who brought barbecue to Brooklyn at Hometown Bar-B-Que; cooking Jamaican jerk baby back ribs and sticky Korean ribs.
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Episode 26
Aired Mar 28, 2018
Smoked Out
Roger Mooking joins the team at Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams, a famous smokehouse shipping nationwide from Madisonville, Tenn., to help prepare huge hams for a three-day cold smoke before they're cured for up to two years.
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