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To paraphrase the classic line from Daffy Duck in Rabbit Seasoning, “He doesn’t have to cook me now. Wait ’til you get to Kitchen Stadium.” And since we’ve already seen Elmer Fudd in action in the kitchen, let’s leave it to the Iron Chefs this time. I thought Daffy would fit right in this week as our Episodes of the Week theme is bird battles.
I’m writing this post to personally thank everyone, from Tuthead to Chromaone, Hendrix(me!!), Doomturtle and even Nylon, everyone who donated their episodes to us (If I missed your name, send an email and I’ll add you) and our episode reviewer Rodney Schroeter. I would also like to thank you guys, our audience, for the feedback we’ve received, good or bad, in the comments section or on the Kitchen Stadium Board, we appreciate it.
Now the good news, we have assembled all the episodes that aired on FoodNetwork, all 185 of them. But we are far from over since there are 300+ episodes of Iron Chefs. So stick with us as we try to gather them all.
About 10 days ago, we announced the acquisition of a new group of Japanese language episodes. Since all of the episodes were from 1997, a void in the collection of many non-Japanese Iron Chef fans, it was easy to see the changes made to the Episode List. This weekend, we added two more episodes, but since they were from the middle of 1999, you might not have noticed. Both of these are actually more specials than regular episodes, but neither one ever aired on Food Network.
One of the reasons we started this site was to find episodes we never had seen before. The first new episode contribution happened only two days after we went live with the addition of the Dried Scallop battle (502) from 1997. As many of you know, Food Network stopped buying/dubbing episodes before they reached any of the episodes from 1997. As a result, many non-Japanese fans have not seen more than the one episode (502) from that year. We are about to change that in a big way.
Today, we proudly announce the acquisition of 30 Ryouri no Tetsujin episodes from 1997. The Full Episode List has been updated to reflect these new additions. (Remember, blue episode numbers represent episodes that will be added to the database some time in the future.) You may also notice that all of the new 1997 episodes are noted with an “OA.” We use that designation to show that the episode is the original Japanese language broadcast. (Yes, they did come from the same source as the recently added specials. No, we have not been able to find subtitled or dubbed versions. Sorry.)
The final Episodes of the Week post each month will feature 1-3 of these ICC Exclusives. (We may try to come up with a way to vote on which episodes you want added, but I am not sure of the best way to do that yet.)
Some highlights from the newly acquired episodes:
We are taking a break from adding new episodes this week as we prepare for a major addition to the collection next week. We plan to post a new episode review and probably one or two Beyond Kitchen Stadium videos for you this week.
Check back with us next week for an exclusive addition to the Iron Chef Collection. We have recently acquired one of the most sought after episodes of Iron Chef, one that never aired on Food Network. I can almost guarantee that you will not find this episode anywhere else on the web. (And believe me when I say I have been looking for this one for a while.) What is it? Come back on Monday, July 7th to find out. 🙂
The Iron Chef Collection has been around for four months now. We would like to thank everyone who has visited and contributed our site. We have the largest searchable/downloadable collection of Iron Chef episodes on the web. (At least, I think we do.) We recently passed 10,000 videos downloaded and watched. We currently have about 130 full episodes in the video database. And the good news is that we still have over 40 more episodes to add in the coming months. We have almost 40 videos in our Beyond Kitchen Stadium section with more on the way there, as well.
So, we would like to ask you for a little bit of feedback. What do you like about the site? What kinds of things would you like to see added to the site? What kinds of things would you like to see removed? Is there any kind of content or functionality you think would be a good addition to the site? (We can’t guarantee that we actually can do any of the things you suggest, but we’d like to hear it anyway.) Feel free to add a comment to this post or send us an e-mail.
I would also like to take this opportunity to reach out to any one who watched Iron Chef in the pre-Food Network days on channels like KTSF. I’d like to think that someone out there has an old tape or two in their closet with subbed or raw (unsubbed, undubbed) Iron Chef episodes. If anyone has any old videotapes of those episodes, please contact me. We would love to have an opportunity to copy/purchase your tapes and share the episodes with the visitors to this site.