Celebrity chefs Guy Fieri and José Andrés cooked for more than 1,000 people affected by the California wildfires

Two celebrity chefs spent their weekends cooking for a cause.

Guy Fieri, host of Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, teamed up with Michelin-starred chef José Andrés to feed the emergency response teams who are working to combat the wildfires that are burning through Northern California.

Eater reports that Fieri worked with the Red Cross over the weekend, as well as with Operation BBQ Relief, a nonprofit that cooks for people affected by natural disasters. Fieri told CNN that he took the four hour trip from his home in Santa Rosa to come work "arm in arm" with the charities and residents chipping to help in Redding, California. "There's like 36,000 folks that have been displaced, so it's quite a program," he said, noting that he was "trying to keep the menu interesting."

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Andrés, meanwhile, utilized his own nonprofit to send relief. The World Central Kitchen also came to Redding to deliver hot meals. Andrés has previously traveled to Puerto Rico to make food for people affected by Hurricane Maria, where his team sent food trucks to remote neighborhoods that couldn't easily access the resources that were set up in larger towns. The two celebrity chefs helped feed about 1,400 evacuees and emergency response workers.