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Maybe it's just me and my coffee-addled sensibilities, but when I saw Balloon Battle! I immediately thought of Kitchen Stadium

I'd like to see what Iron Chef Chen Kenicihi could make out of those. Go Chen-san!

Maybe it's just me and my coffee-addled sensibilities, but when I saw Balloon Battle! I immediately thought of Kitchen Stadium

I'd like to see what Iron Chef Chen Kenicihi could make out of those. Go Chen-san!

Apparently Kobe beef isn't the best Japan's got.

That would be Mishima Beef

Just think of the possibilities for this, especially if there's also a webcam on the thing. You can use the TV functions to watch Iron Chef while you're cooking, or have the refrigerator tell you what the Mystery Ingredient you'll be using for dinner tonight will be, or if you've got a high-speed net connection (which anybody spending money on this overpriced toy probably does ;-), you can run your own Iron Chef game with your friends....

In the "new stuff about amino acids" department, several researchers have recently discovered that there is a fifth taste in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter. It has been called umami and has been extensively researched at Howard Hughes Medical Center. Naturally the Japanese have established a whole new research center on this at SRUT (Japanese character module required) so can a special edition of Iron Chef be far behind?

wow, my speeling sukcs.

It should be here:

here.

I'm kind of surprised they didn't get Bobby Flay to be one of the Iron Chefs. He had 2 appearances on the original Japanese show against Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto (one)(two), one of which was a bit controversial as Bobby was almost electrocuted during the battle and then at the end Masaharu claimed that Flay was not a true chef since a true chef wouldn't stand on his cutting board.

I wonder if Shatner will dress like Liberace to keep with the spirit of Chairman Kaga?

I'm kind of surprised they didn't get Bobby Flay to be one of the Iron Chefs. He had 2 appearances on the original Japanese show against Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto (one)(two), one of which was a bit controversial as Bobby was almost electrocuted during the battle and then at the end Masaharu claimed that Flay was not a true chef since a true chef wouldn't stand on his cutting board.

I wonder if Shatner will dress like Liberace to keep with the spirit of Chairman Kaga?

The Asian Invasion continues...with Robot Sumo! ...coming to a tube near you this fall, and hosted by Ota Shinichiro of Iron Chef fame (minus his energetic english translator--he is afraid of robots)!

;-)

Iron Chef's theme music is from the movie Backdraft and it's composed by Hans Zimmer.

I was actually just looking that up earlier, after watching the first Morimoto/Flay battle. While much of it is from Backdraft, there's some other music mixed in.

You can get information about pretty much every bit of music that's ever been used at the unofficial Iron Chef site's music page.

Gum "mmm, Chocolate Moose..." bo

Because I'm glad Bobby Flay lost.

Then make sure that you DO NOT watch Saturday's show.


Because if they ever make "The Iron Chef for the PS2" it will probably suck.

Well, they did make Kitchen Stadium Tour for the Sega Saturn, and from what I heard, it didn't suck.

I thought Flay was way too cocky during that first match-up. That and the fact that he stood up on his own chopping board (gross!) leads me to hope that he gets slammed this second time around.

I was heartbroken to learn that, despite wild popularity, the show had ceased in Japan except for the occasional special episode. Iron Chef was on for six years, so I guess it'll be a few more years before we come to the end.

Plenty more shocking details over at the unofficial IC site.

Yet another reason why I miss cable. That, and Thia.

Damn my dorms not having cable! I'm getting work done!

So do the math! There are full stats online at http://www.ironchef.com/ironstats.shtml.

http://www.wpi.edu/~riffraff/irongame.html
http://www.ironchef.com/irongame.shtml

God does not play dice with the universe. Albert Einstein

If you aren't into Iron Chef yet, you simply must check it out. There's a great Iron Chef site at www.ironchef.com. See their great FAQ if you're new to it.

For a real treat, watch Iron Chef while drunk.

If you aren't into Iron Chef yet, you simply must check it out. There's a great Iron Chef site at www.ironchef.com. See their great FAQ if you're new to it.

For a real treat, watch Iron Chef while drunk.

Bizarre cooking TV show. Check out their fan site here or the official site here.

Regards, your friendly neighbourhood cranq

Or course, ironchef.com was not actually removed.

Once upon a time, not very long ago, we were about to cancel everything except basic cable having, well, nothing beyond very basic needs in this age of high-speed internet access.

Then, while clicking through one Friday evening of TV Wasteland, I stumbled upon this really bizarre cooking show. The name of it was Iron Something (I mean, am I allowed to use the trademarked name?). It was on the Food Network, which frankly wasn't a channel we ever watched much.

But the show was awesome. Seriously, my wife and I were stunned; there was finally a decent reason to get cable! An actual reason to bother to watch TV. Something easily worth the $18 per month difference between basic and expanded whatever that we were getting. And we spread the good word to everybody we knew. My sister-in-law got a satellite dish just so she could watch the show.

Despite my fairly dim view of television, the medium, I've always had the opinion that there were only two countries on earth where people had any idea about what to do with the medium. The first was the U.S., and the other, to my surprise, actually, was Japan. (I found this out while I was homesick for a week at a conference in Japan.) Of course, most Japanese programming is unknown in the U.S., so it was hard to tell people about it.

But this cooking show was something you could point them to. Really, it was the first thing I could point at and say, "See? The Japanese have really done something excellent and new with TV."

Almost everybody I preached to ended up loving the show. To one unlucky soul in a non-cable-possible household, I even made weekly tapes of the shows (commericals included, of course). We live in a small Midwestern university town, and we don't really get out very much. But I didn't care that much, as long as I could stretch out on the couch with the family on Friday and Saturday nights and watch the Theme Ingredient be revealed. My four year-old son can name all four chefs. He thinks that peanut butter "matches well" with chocolate milk.

At some point early on in the craze, we did turn to the net for more info. And I did try out the food network site on the show. Alas, nothing much to see there (at that time). So I fired up the Good Old Search Engine and found the URL to ironchef.com. Like, wow. What a truly amazing site; what an awesome labor of love. Of course there isn't much to see there now; Ironstef (really, that's what she calls herself) has had to shut the thing down.

I actually understand trademarks. I have sympathy for intellectual property laws, even if I don't always seek the same level of protection for my work. Intellectually, I completely understand why Fuji set their lawyers against the show's most enthusiastic fans. Some day, I might even be able to explain this to the four-year-old.

More emotionally, of course, I wish I could tell Fuji to take their Iron-Fisted lawyers and put them in a tight warm smelly place. This new technique matches well with greediness. It probably won't kill the fishy smell. It really has killed any interest I had in the show.

You can order your very own Iron Chef to cater parties. That's ok...we have Emeril.