Man Fire Food

Roger meets two chefs who own unique outdoor cooking rigs; Aaron Brooks uses a coal-fueled contraption called the Cross Table and he and Roger roast butterflied pork and seafood paella; Roger visits chef Chris Hastings at his restaurant OvenBird.

Roger heads to Hamaknockers Bar-B-Que, where he is introduced to the Hamaburger, and watches a pitmaster pull pork with a power tool; Steve Melton is a farmer preserving the tradition of making cane syrup in a 100-year-old kettle over an open fire.

Roger samples the smoked ribs at Mary's Old Fashioned Pit Bar-B-Que; Roger meets legendary pit master Helen Turner of Helen's Bar-B-Q in Brownsville, Tenn., and helps her cook pork shoulders, pork ribs and a whole stick of bologna.

Roger visits chefs who use unusual tools over live fires; Erik Niel cooks rabbits rotisserie-style with bamboo poles; Chef Tim Byres of Smoke cooks flank steak and whole chickens on swords.

Roger cooks up two whole hogs in two different ways; Roger visits MOPHO restaurant for a Southeast Asian spit-roasted pig that is a twist on a classic tradition; Chef Miles McMath hinges two steel troughs together to make a quick-cooking oven.

Chef Rob McDaniel at SpringHouse restaurant in Alexander City, Ala., roasts legs of lamb in a self-designed fire-fueled contraption; Cypress owner Craig Deihl prepares wood-fired food.

Roger Mooking travels to North Bend, Ore., and meets up with Don Ivy, Chief of the Coquille Tribe for a traditional tribal feast; in Los Angeles, Roger visits Andy Ricker of Pok Pok La, who divulges the secrets to his famous whole roasted chicken.

Roger Mooking and Charlie Thieriot slow roast a 30-pound porchetta; Roger assists caterers Jaret Foster and Mona Johnson in putting together roasted mussels and a white bean, chorizo and clam stew.

Ben Jacobsen, owner of Jacobsen Salt Co., takes Roger on a tour of the facility and shows him how to smoke sea salt; Roger meets with chef Carlo Lamagna and helps him stuff a 20-pound halibut, encrust it in salt and roast it over a wood-burning fire.

Chef Roger Mooking meets pit master Levi Goode at Armadillo Palace in Houston and roasts a 250-pound side of beef; at Cured in San Antonio, Roger and owner Steve McHugh slow-roast a 230-pound hog in a large outdoor cinder block pit.

Roger meets Josh Pollack, owner of Rosenberg's Bagels & Delicatessen in Denver, whose 8-foot steel contraption cooks up to 1,000 pounds of food.

Roger goes to work lighting burn barrels for metal pits at Perini Ranch Steakhouse for owner Tom Perini; owner of Pitchfork Fondue Western Cookout, Matt David, invites Roger for steaks skewered onto pitchforks and deep-fried in cauldrons.