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Sorry about the lack of updates lately. I have been out of town for work (and will likely be out another few weeks.) I have several episodes to be added, both from Japan and also some subtitled eps from our anonymous donor. I promise May will be full of Iron Chef goodness for you. Until then, please be patient with me. Thanks.
Keith
If anybody wants to write any guest posts or episode reviews, let me know.
Two years ago, a fan’s fantasy became reality, in a form never seen before: the Iron Chef Collection, a giant video repository. The motivation for spending his fortune to create the Iron Chef Collection was to encounter new, original, rarely seen episodes, which could be called true artistic creations.
To realize his dream, he secretly started downloading the top episodes of various styles of cooking. And he named his downloads the Iron Chef Collection. The invincible site of culinary videos.
The Iron Chef Collection is the arena where episodes and videos await to be downloaded by master fans from around the world. Both the ICC and the fans have unlimited time to tackle their favorite Iron Chef episodes. Using all of their bandwidth, hard drive capacity, memory, they are to watch episodes never seen before. And if an episode not aired on Food Network becomes available for download, it will gain the people’s ovation and fame forever.
Every download, reputations are on the line in the Iron Chef Collection, where fans pit their favorite episodes against each other. What inspiration does today’s downloaded episode bring? And when will the ICC update? The heat will be on!
That’s right. The Iron Chef Collection launched two years ago today.
For those of you who don’t know the story, a small group of people from the now defunct Stage6 started this site as a place for Iron Chef fans to feed their Kitchen Stadium addiction. I haven’t talked to any of the Stage6 admin crew in quite a while, but without them, this site would not ever have started, so I truly appreciate their efforts to help get this place off the ground. A huge thank you to my original site co-founders Hendrix and Lostbabee. Also, a big thank you to episode reviewer Rodney Schroeter, article contributor William “Blissey” Raymer, episode contributor DoomTurtle, and episode contributor Anonymous Donor. (If I forgot anyone, please let me know and I will gladly add you to the list.) I also very much appreciate all of you who have made a financial contribution to the site. While I can honestly say the site isn’t going anywhere in the foreseeable future, your contributions certainly do make it easier for me to keep it going strong.
I still have a few Japanese language episodes from 1997 to add in the coming weeks. And I will continue to beat the internet bushes in an attempt to track down even more Iron Chef episodes that haven’t been seen in years.
‘T was the night before Christmas and in old K.S.
All the Iron Chefs were stirring, it’s what they do best.
The ovens were lit and the theme was prepared.
In hopes that the Chairman soon would be there.
A handsome man enters. The women go ga-ga.
I knew in a moment that it must be Kaga.
His jacket, eye catching. His style, quite unique.
His friends, we’ll see later to offer critique.
The stars of the show from their podium came.
The announcer Fukui called each one by name.
On, Kobe, the youngest. On, Morimoto!
Now, Sakai! Now, Chen. Stand in front of your photo.
With skills of great masters the chefs start at their task.
If there’s something we want to know, Ohta will ask.
Sakai with his circle molds. Chen with his wok.
Kobe makes pasta. Morimoto will shock.
The Chairman just smiles as he exits the scene.
Happy Christmas to all and Allez Cuisine.
(Apologies to Clement C. Moore for butchering his Christmas classic.)
It is Christmas in Kitchen Stadium, and we have several Christmas themed battles for this week.
Dear Santa,
I have been a very good Iron Chef fan this year. I think I have earned some really good presents. And if you bring any of these things to me, I promise to share them with my fellow Iron Chef fans.
Which of these would you most like Santa to bring the Iron Chef fan community this Christmas? Tell him in the comments, and I’ll see if I can’t convince him to come through for us.
On this date sixteen years ago, 10/10/1993, the first episode of Ryouri no Tetsujin aired on Fuji TV. And while I would love to announce that I have that first episode, I think we all know it is highly unlikely that we will ever find it. But that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate. Take the opportunity to watch some of your favorite episodes today.
Keep voting for the next subtitled episode to be posted. A new one will go up mid-week this week.
I thought about saving this news until I had at least one of these episodes ready for upload, but I’m too excited to wait. In my mailbox this morning were five episodes of Iron Chef that I have never seen. They are all from the pre-FN days when Iron Chef was airing in a few select local markets across the US. These episodes were often in Japanese with English subtitles.
A while ago, an Iron Chef collector contacted me about some episodes from the local days. These episodes are very hard to find now. While the contributor wishes to remain anonymous, they have agreed to share some of their episodes with us. I have changed the episode numbers for these five to blue, showing that they will be available in the near future. (Look mid-late 1996 to find these five.) I will do my best to get at least one episode uploaded for this weekend. The contributor does visit this site, so I would encourage everyone to comment with a huge thank you.
If you have episodes on tape or DVD that you want to share, there is an address listed on the “Support Us” tab where you can send them.