Name: Whole Animals
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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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.

Man Fire Food

Smoked Out

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.

Pit Bosses

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.

Insane Inventions

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.

Top 5 BBQ Between the Bread

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.

Smokin' Sides and Sweets

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.

Surf and Turf

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.

Pig Out

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.

Meat Mania

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.

Women Fire Food

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.

Fishing for Fire

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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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.

Top 5 BBQ Chicken

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Host Roger Mooking travels throughout America in search of fascinating ways people cook with fire.

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