Owner and chef Sourav Saha works the grill at Rosewood Bistro in Medicine Hat on March 29, 2023. (Photo: Bob Schneider)

By Chris Brown

Medicine Hat chef to compete on Food Network Canada show Fire Masters

Mar 30, 2023 | 10:23 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – A Medicine Hat chef’s skills in the kitchen have landed him in the hot seat, in a good way, on a national cooking competition show.

Sourav Saha will appear on the May 14, 2023, episode of the Food Network Canada show Fire Masters.

Saha is the owner and chef at Rosewood Bistro on North Railway Street in Medicine Hat, which he opened in early 2021. He also operates the Rosewood Cafe at the Medicine Hat Regional Airport, and two months ago, took over the Clubhouse Restaurant at Paradise Valley Golf Course.

He said he cannot divulge much before his episode airs, but it was a much different experience from cooking in Medicine Hat.

“Lots of cameras around you, so you’re basically cooking and then the cameras would come you know next to you and on top of your shoulder and back,” he recalls.

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“You know, you go to somebody else’s house and you cook something for them, you don’t know where anything is, so that takes a lot of like maneuvring your brain and then trying to figure out what will be where and stuff,” said Saha. “You are using equipment but you don’t know where the plug point is, right, or where the equipment is kept, or if you’re using, let’s say, a food processor, you don’t know where it is, right, and you have such limited time.”

The new season of Fire Masters debuts on April 16, 2023. In each episode of the show, three chefs compete against each other and the winner goes head-to-head with a Fire Masters judge in the final round with $10,000 on the line and the title of Fire Masters champion.

Saha said he spent about 13 hours in the show kitchen filming his episode and was impressed by the attention to detail and how the production all comes together.

During the competition, he recalls that his heart beating fast and he was sweating. It’s an experience he would like to have again.

“It’s like they [say] that you should always take part in competitions,” said Saha. “It brings the better self out of you right so you learn patience, perseverance and how to work with whatever you have.”

He also thanked the community and the customers at his restaurants for their support, saying some people are at his restaurants five days a week.

“I could only be in that show because of the support I got from people in Medicine Hat,” Saha says.

For more information on Fire Masters, visit the show’s page on foodnetwork.ca.

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