Feel the Burn with New Food Network Series “Heat Seekers”

Forget the end of summer — September is looking like a very hot month for Food Network Canada. In a new show, celebrity chefs Aarón Sanchez (Chefs vs. City) and Roger Mooking (Everyday Exotic and recently, Iron Chef America) have teamed up on a new food adventure — one that’s sure to set your taste buds on fire. Heat Seekers, launching September 1 is a taste odyssey across the United States in search of the most deliciously spicy dishes the nation has to offer. From New Orleans to Miami, chefs Mooking and Sanchez take on the most tantalizing, palate-searing preparations and attempt to discover exactly why these dishes are just so much fun to eat. 

Each episode features the two chefs embarking on a culinary exploration of a given city — they travel to Miami, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Chicago, Seattle, Charleston and Los Angeles — and ends in a fiery food showdown, with Mooking and Sanchez testing the limits of their taste buds with the hottest dish the region has to offer. In each city, they discover the spicy secrets of everything from broiled crawfish and buffalo frog legs, to fiery ribs and seafood ceviche, and then subject themselves to a test of who can handle the heat.

The series launches Thursday, September 1 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT with Heat Seekers: New Orleans, where Mooking & Sanchez take on the flaming hot cuisine of the Big Easy, with the episode featuring hot sausage Po’ boys, kickin’ jambalaya and Cajun-style crawfish. The spicy quest ends at a true hotspot in the French Quarter, where the boys battle it out to see who can finish a bowl of legendary Creole gumbo laced with XXXX Voodoo sauce!

This is followed by Heat Seekers: Santa Fe on September 8 at 9.30 p.m. ET/PT, where the intrepid chefs take on smokin’ hot Santa Fe red and green chili. Then, it’s true “hot” chocolate made with some of the hottest chili peppers out there. But there can only be one Chili Champion, and the boys’ showdown is a pulled-pork sandwich so hot, that even the chili-loving locals can’t take it.

Tune in to Food Network Canada starting September 1, and prepare to face the heat!