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This journey Beyond Kitchen Stadium takes us to the world of Japanese idols. Not the kind that Indiana Jones goes after, but entertainment idols. This clip comes from the television show Hello! Morning. We get to see the girls of Mini Moni, including Nozomi Tsuji, do battle to see who is the best. (Hopefully, you remember Tsuji from the BKS videos with Tenmei Kano and Kandagawa and Shu. If not, go watch them now.)
Tsuji Nozomi, Kago Ai, and Morning Musume member Konno Asami face off in a Cake Battle. It is more of a dessert assembly battle than a cooking battle, but it is still fun to watch. See the girls make kitchen blunders. See the girls use ingredients that have no business being anywhere near a cake (mayonnaise and what I think is squid, to be specific). See Tsuji and Kago at their “Top Two” best. The clip is in Japanese with no subtitles.
This video, along with all of our Beyond Kitchen Stadium videos, can be found in our file database.
As many of you know, Fine Living Network began airing the original Iron Chef again this week. If you have that network, I encourage you to watch the show on the channel. (And if they aren’t showing an episode you want to watch, come here and watch it after their broadcast is over.) Perhaps a surge in interest will encourage Food Network to purchase more episodes. Enjoy their broadcasts while we do something a little different this week.
I thought this would be a good week to bring some attention to what I feel is a relatively underappreciated section of our site: our Beyond Kitchen Stadium videos. Most of these clips are short, and many of them let you see some of the familiar faces from Iron Chef in not so familiar settings. I know that some of you may have avoided watching some of the clips because they are in Japanese with no English subtitles, but I would encourage you to give them a try anyway. We’re adding some new clips this week.
If you know of or have any videos that feature Iron Chefs, judges, or challengers, please let us know.
Next week, we will return to our regularly scheduled Episodes of the Week post with all new episodes for you to watch and download.
There were many special episodes of Iron Chef over the years. Despite the fact that the later FN show introduction mentioned and showed clips from some of these specials, most of them never aired on Food Network. (If anyone has any tapes of any of these specials, we will buy them from you. Contact us.)
The following episodes may be found by searching our video database: 415/416, 631, 802a, 802b, 901.
New in the database this week: New York Battle (802a/b), 21st Century Special (901)
We have several related videos in our Beyond Kitchen Stadium collection. Be sure to go check them out as well as the new episodes we have this week.
I didn’t forget you guys, I was out of town. This is part two of our Episodes of the Week – Potato Battles. This week, we have the added bonus that these potato battles also showcase the Kobayashi family. Here’s what we have for you.
These episodes can be found in our video database.
New this week to the database : 232 and 621
We also have a related Beyond Kitchen Stadium video this week. We have a Japanese commercial featuring Katsuyo Kobayashi. The commercial is in Japanese with no subtitles. Enjoy.
While Mel Brooks wasn’t exactly talking about Iron Chef when he said that famous line in “History of the World: Part 1,” it is fitting for this week’s Episodes of the Week. As the time to close Kitchen Stadium came near, Chairman Kaga decided he wanted a final tournament to crown the King of the Iron Chefs.
You may find all of these episodes for download or viewing in our files database in the Iron Chef Specials category.
Easter is this weekend, so I thought I’d make it this week’s Episodes of the Week theme. The obvious choice for an Easter theme would be eggs. While egg was the theme ingredient 5 times during the run of the show (203, 310, 417, 519, 709), three of the episodes did not air on Food Network, and the other two are already in our database. Of course, the whole point of these EotW posts is to add new episodes to the database, so let’s change directions slightly. This week’s Episodes of the Week theme is EGGplant.
New this week in the video database: Eggplant (225), Eggplant (330)
These episodes (225, 330, 622, BKS-tamago) may be found by searching our video database.