Iron Chef Fans! Enter and sign in! (but please leave your shoes at the door)

[snowy ciara]

Okay Iron Chef fans! Here's our thread!

What do you like about it? Hate about it? Favorite eppy? Favorite version? Favorite Chef (sswwwwwoooooonnnnn!)?

Also, I have been (along with a small and dedicated group of fans. Okay, there's like, 3 of us!) lobbying to get peanut butter for the secret ingrediant! Who's with me! You can make comments and suggestions for the show right here: Food Network Questions and Comments .

 

[00Syd]

oh wow, Peanut Butter sounds GREAT.

Okay, yes, I'll sign in as a fan. I can't say I watch every new episode (Don't even get the food network at school *HARUMPH*) but I love watching it when its on. Its so ridiculous!

 

[snowy ciara]

It's on at really odd hours up here, but I have a friend in the US who DVD-Rs it for me.

 

[00Syd]

Aw, lucky you!

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

Incorporating peanut butter into Asian style cuisine is hardly a stretch. Peanuts are commonly used in Malay, Indonesian, Chinese & Thai cooking. I don't get it.

I am so sitting in the dark again huh.

I have seen this program a few times, they're very skilled, very disciplined Chefs not sure they set me 'off' but I can respect the craft immensely.

I may have to pay more attention, yes, that's it .

 

[snowy ciara]

The only one I super lust over is the Chairman, who, strictly speaking, isn't a Chef, but my favorite Chef (of the US ones) is Morimoto-San. He's just so calm and zen and he has a great sense of humor and makes pretty stuff. His dishes are all so beautiful! I'd be looking at him saying "I can't bite this purty flower!"

 

[callinectes]

Incorporating peanut butter into Asian style cuisine is hardly a stretch. Peanuts are commonly used in Malay, Indonesian, Chinese & Thai cooking. I don't get it.

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It is very unusual in American cooking though..unless one is making muddy buddies or peanut butter pie.

 

[callinectes]

I don't lust over the Japanese chairman at all. His outfits crack me up and the whole biting-of-the-pepper bit followed by the James Bond villain laugh is over the top. I enjoy watching him but lust isn't an emotion he invokes in me. lol

The American chairman..meh

 

[@}-}rebecca----]

It is very unusual in American cooking though..unless one is making muddy buddies or peanut butter pie.

Oh I see, must be my proximity to Asia. Satay and Laksa style dishes are very common place here. There are quite a few Asian style salads we eat dressed with peanuts roasted in soy or tamari shoyu too. That's barely scratching the surface. Plays havoc for kids with peanut allergies, school system has full bans on sending any foods that contain peanuts. It can kill kids in mere mins I am told. That's so interesting thank you, I had never considered it.

 

[midwestyankee]

Hello. My name is yank and I'm an Iron Chef-aholic. It started for me when my older son introduced me to the show. He was taken by all things Japanese and also has been a fan of cooking shows since he was in grade school. So for him it was a perfect fit.

I'm much more partial to the American version, though. One of my fantasies is to do a road trip that includes stops at all the American iron chefs' restaurants (plus a few other Food Network regulars like Emeril and Paula Dean. The same road trip would include obligatory stops at a few of the places made famous by Flay's Throwdowns, Brown's Dining on Asphalt or Fiore's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.

 

[snowy ciara]

It is very unusual in American cooking though..unless one is making muddy buddies or peanut butter pie.

Or peanut butter cookies. yum!

 

[midwestyankee]

Favorite episode: the one that featured these immense Japanese lobsters. These puppies must have been two and a half feet long. The voiceover of the female judges saying, "Oh, it's soooooo bit!" was absolutely priceless.

 

[00Syd]

The only one I super lust over is the Chairman, who, strictly speaking, isn't a Chef, but my favorite Chef (of the US ones) is Morimoto-San. He's just so calm and zen and he has a great sense of humor and makes pretty stuff. His dishes are all so beautiful! I'd be looking at him saying "I can't bite this purty flower!"

Oh, yes, Morimoto is great! I ate at his restaurant in Philadelphia a few years back which was really fun. Who knew you could make wasabi ice cream? It was delicious!

 

[midwestyankee]

Oh, yes, Morimoto is great! I ate at his restaurant in Philadelphia a few years back which was really fun. Who knew you could make wasabi ice cream? It was delicious!

At his prices and with his reputation, it better have been orgasmic.

 

[snowy ciara]

Oh, yes, Morimoto is great! I ate at his restaurant in Philadelphia a few years back which was really fun. Who knew you could make wasabi ice cream? It was delicious!

I knew! He made green tea ice cream once too, on the show. I want to try it someday!

At his prices and with his reputation, it better have been orgasmic.

I've heard it is.

 

[FurryFury]

I really enjoyed the epi in which they had all kinds of strange things that were unusual like paper you were supposed to eat, dishes you were supposed to eat, syringes will sauces you were supposed to squirt in your mouth and so on.

I wish they'd have some veggie episodes. I find the show fascinating anyway.

 

[snowy ciara]

I really enjoyed the epi in which they had all kinds of strange things that were unusual like paper you were supposed to eat, dishes you were supposed to eat, syringes will sauces you were supposed to squirt in your mouth and so on.

I wish they'd have some veggie episodes. I find the show fascinating anyway.

I loved that one, where they had all this high tech stuff to play with, and the syringey things that were dna syringes! It was cool. And then there was the beet eppy, where there was beet sushi.

I'd like to see some challenges like doing all vegetarian dishes, or doing celiac friendly dishes.

 

[FurryFury]

I loved that one, where they had all this high tech stuff to play with, and the syringey things that were dna syringes! It was cool. And then there was the beet eppy, where there was beet sushi.

I'd like to see some challenges like doing all vegetarian dishes, or doing celiac friendly dishes.

Me too!

 

[Betticus]

I don't like the American version at all, it's Iron Chef Japan or nothing!

Bobby Flay seems like the kind of guy that I'd hate on contact.

Anyhow, I like the Iron Chef Chinese guy.

 

[LilyBart]

One of our local chefs (another crush of mine) won the American IC challange recently, beating Cat Cora and the dishes looked outstanding. He has the recipes posted on his restaurant website and I look forward to autumn so I can try them out (secret ingredient is an autumn item.)

I don't watch much TV, but when I do, its usually the Food Network. I have a lot crushes there...including everyone on Ace of Cakes.

And Bobby Flay is growing on me. I first learned about him through the Food Network but have since grown to understand his place in defining American cuisine. He really is pretty cool.

I recommend reading The United States of Arugula, which I found a year ago or so. A really fascinating and well written history of the evolution of American cuisine. And how I got to admire Bobby Flay. (As a chef, yes, sexually...no connection.)

And all these food threads are confusing me. So sorry if this should have been posted on another one. I write in the moment, ya know?

 

[YourCaptor]

I don't like the American version at all, it's Iron Chef Japan or nothing!

Bobby Flay seems like the kind of guy that I'd hate on contact.

Anyhow, I like the Iron Chef Chinese guy.

Dude, your like, reading my mind.

Japanese IC was the best, I remember when If first found it at like 2:30am while waiting for the world cup, damn it had me hocked.

Secret ingredient requests:
muscles
asparagus
small birds

 

[myinnerslut]

i was on the set a few months ago. they use the same set to film a whole buch of different food network shows. at the time it was set up for emeril. anyway, i was surprised it not nearly as big as it looks on tv.

 

[YourCaptor]

i was on the set a few months ago. they use the same set to film a whole buch of different food network shows. at the time it was set up for emeril. anyway, i was surprised it not nearly as big as it looks on tv.

They never are, and Emeril, well *forms fist* Bammm!!!

 

[Essene]

I *heart* Morimoto. I always feel badly for Cat Cora because last I checked she was on a horrible losing streak and she's the only girl.

Battle swallows nest was interesting. For whatever reason that one always sticks out in my mind.

 

[Homburg]

And Bobby Flay is growing on me. I first learned about him through the Food Network but have since grown to understand his place in defining American cuisine. He really is pretty cool.

Watching Flay lose as often as he does, and with good enough grace, in Throwdown, has changed my opinion of him. He seems like he's softened a bit too. Not quite such the arrogant dickcheese these days.