Man Fire Food

While on a roadtrip through Texas, Roger Mooking makes a pit stop at The Box Street Social food truck in San Antonio to hang chickens and racks of ribs over a live fire. Later, another food truck has a penchant for central Texas-style barbecue.

Roger Mooking meets a family that specialises in both Texas barbecue and Mexican barbacoa. He learns the secrets to `hot guts' for the legendary Texas favourite, Frito pie, and fires up their Argentinean grill for lamb barbacoa.

Roger Mooking visits two Southern California barbecue joints that are open only on weekends. He meets a couple who runs a pop-up barbecue restaurant in their own backyard, and he helps a caterer cook up a trio of meats in a parking lot.

Roger Mooking tames the flames in outdoor kitchens fuelled by wood-burning fires. He helps fire up beef ribs and grilled chickens for a ranch cookout in Solvang, California, and cooks a hearty soup in an antique cauldron in San Diego.

Roger Mooking hunts down impressive barbecue rigs in Houston, Texas, and Napa Valley, California. He helps load six goats onto a custom trailer that can cook up to 600 pounds of meat, and he cooks a side of beef and sides on one asado grill.

The power couple behind popular restaurant Heim Barbecue, pitmaster Travis Heim and his wife, Emma, showcase traditional Texas-style barbecue. Later, Roger and Travis fill a giant steel rotisserie smoker with slabs of briskets.