Chef Michael Symon gets things started in Boston where a whole smoked hog is getting the royal treatment with a marinade injection, a salt crust and a foil wrap for crispy skin. Then in Phoenix, a wolf of a burger gets topped with smoked pulled pork, bacon, a stout barbecue sauce and beer mustard. Finally, a whole game hen sitting on a beer can in Dallas makes for the juiciest chicken in all of Texas.
This week Food Network Star is throwing its very own Burger Bash, an over-the-top burger competition. The remaining finalists are tasked with creating the best burger of their lives and presenting it to 100 burger enthusiasts. After the presentations, the burger fans must decide whose burger they want to try based on their live-demo presentation. After a vote on which burger has the best flavor, the least successful finalist is sent home.
The Kitchen is celebrating an American classic -- the burger! Sunny Anderson shares her cheese sauce-covered Sizzling Summer Burger, and Geoffrey Zakarian cooks up a Cheese-Stuffed Lamb Burger. Cooking Channel's Eddie Jackson puts together Caribbean Jerk Sliders, and then Jeff Mauro puts his spin an Asian-Style Veggie Burger. Katie Lee is at the grill to make her French Onion Burgers, and Geoffrey tops off this burger bash with his Ultimate Summer PLT Burger with pancetta.
Bobby and his guest Giselle are going beyond the same old burger and bun with her outrageous Onion 3-Way Burger and Bobby's juicy Cheyenne Burger, drenched in tangy BBQ sauce. On the side, the burger's favorite accomplices -- onion rings and fries.