Season 1 Episodes
1. Meat Your Competition
Hosts and judges Andrew Zimmern, Ernest Servantes, Jess Pryles, and Moe Cason kick off the competition by giving the teams nine hours to create a family-style barbecue platter that defines their barbecue style and culinary point of view.
2. Trifecta of Live Fire
The teams create a BBQ platter that defines their culinary point of view.
3. Sink or Swim
The teams are faced with a meatless challenge, and the winner has a big choice to make
4. Rooter to Tooter & Head-to-Head
The six remaining teams face off in a nose-to-tail barbecue battle, transforming either a hog, goat, or lamb into two main dishes and two sides; with $2,000 on the line, they must use the remaining parts of their animal to make sausage.
5. Core Four Cook-Off
In the ultimate live-fire endurance challenge, the teams face four barbecue pillars: chicken, pork ribs, pork shoulder and beef brisket. Exhaustion is taking its toll, but the teams who can dig deep have a chance to win $1,000 for each round.
6. Backyard BBQ
With four teams left in the competition, judges Andrew Zimmern, Ernest Servantes, Jess Pryles, and Moe Cason are looking for a classic backyard barbecue potluck with a live-fire main course and two sides that don't disappoint. But the catch is that the pitmasters only have three hours to pull it off! The teams are fighting for a spot in the semifinals, and for the first time the Big Burn comes with a $5,000 prize.
