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Yeah, that’s right: we have a date. June 15th, 2022, and then… the shishito hits the kitchen fan.
I expect there will be much to say once the first few episodes air, but I’m going to announce right now that there are at least three names now associated with the new Iron Chef on Netflix:
Mark Dacascos
Alton Brown
and
Kristen Kish.
I’m going to go on record RIGHT NOW, yes, right this very second, and say (within my official capacity as webmaster for what may very well be the greatest Iron Chef fan site on the whole of the Internet) that if it is beyond all hope to get Fukui-san as your Iron Chef Fount of Knowledge, Floor Announcer, and Hype Man, my next choice will always be Alton Brown as the man for the Iron Chef job and I, for one, am glad to see him on-hand. Smooth, urbane, both virtuoso and pedagogue, and he knows his way around social media.
Post your thoughts on our newly revealed Iron Chef Netflix series… Does knowing more spoil your dessert? Or does it make you hungry for more?
According to the Netflix synopsis for the new 8-episode show airing this year:
The legendary Iron Chef series is reborn with a supersized approach to the ground-breaking culinary competition that started it all. It’s been called the toughest culinary challenge a chef will ever experience. This is where world-class cuisine meets high-octane sports. Five new trailblazing Iron Chefs will welcome brave Challenger Chefs to the reimagined Kitchen Stadium, where they’ll face off and be pushed to the limits of endurance and creativity, as they cook up extraordinary culinary creations. The competition’s most successful Challenger will return to battle in a grand finale for the chance to be named the first ever “Iron Legend.”
-Netflix, https://about.netflix.com/en/news/iron-chef-quest-for-an-iron-legend-coming-to-netflix-in-2022
Most importantly, the page states something that should put a smile on the face of every Iron Chef Japan fan out there:
The series is based on Fuji Television Network’s format.
New Iron Chefs, New Challengers, and a Reimagined Kitchen Stadium with the support of Fuji’s format for the original show. While we wait to see how the judges will score this new dish, I want to know your thoughts – which head-to-head cuisines or ingredient battles are you most interested in?
Netflix will be airing a new Iron Chef show in 2022. According to many sites, it will be called Iron Chef : Quest for an Iron Legend. The show is planned for 8 episodes. The producer is Daniel Calin, who produced Master Chef USA, Top Chef and Nailed It.
This is yet another reboot in a long line of the original show. Others have included the poorly rated Iron Chef USA , Iron Chef America and the 2012 version of Iron Chef. Many more have been made titled Iron Chef with a certain country added at the end.
To say that people are a little weary of another reboot is an understatement. Most of the reboots have received poor ratings and Iron Chef America is a love it or hate it show for most. Nothing will compare to the original show that we all love. We will have to wait and see if the new show will fill a void.
Be sure to check back on this site often, as we will update you when the new show is set to air and for all of your Iron Chef news!
As the holiday seasons approach, I have a soft spot in my heart for Iron Chef Japan. My family established a holiday tradition almost a decade ago of binge-watching as much Iron Chef Japan as we could find through the holidays. The creativity and flair on display helped inspire some of our family’s traditional dishes and, though we have seen almost every episode more than a few times, we always appreciated learning something new every time we watched.
As 2021 draws to a close, I’m looking forward to be renewing this holiday tradition for the first time in a while! Iron Chef Fan Joe wrote in to let us know that FilmRise recently acquired the rights to dubbed episodes of Iron Chef Japan and that Pluto TV is airing ICJ on its free-to-download app. Along with the Twitch stream, this provides more access to Iron Chef Japan than we’ve seen in a while and answers some long-running questions many of you have had about the possibility of seeing it aired again.
Check out FilmRise and PlutoTV and let us know if they have what you’re looking for!
Hey all! I’m so excited to share with you all that one of my personal passion projects for the site is now something I’m working on (a little each week) for the next few months – a data source for statistics on Iron Chef Japan. With any luck, we’ll be able to use the completed data to drive interactive trivia on our website! We’ll see how far we get at the end of the year, but this is easily going to be one or two years in the making (because we’ve got to catch each ep on streaming or rerun to capture the data) and will take quite a bit of time to complete. I’m a bit of a nerd for data and databases, so am excited to show a sneak peek of my Iron Chef Japan-related development system so far:
Hey, Iron Chef Fans, old and new alike! I hope that all is well with you and wanted to take some time to share what our site has been going through, some of the amazing things we’ve had happen already this year, and an idea of how I’d like our year to play out!
As all of you know, 2020 was a disruption to businesses, lives, and the best-laid-plans across the board, and our Iron Chef Fans site was no different. Our 2020 ideas included a site redesign, new contributions, and even some interactive content! We searched to find a content curator and were successful, but as all of our lives changed, their availability was uncertain. Similarly, our tech ideas went on hold as life, work, health, and so on took precedence.
One thing we did NOT expect from 2020 was bots, but boy did we get them. Each week for the last 12-14 months, we have about 12 new accounts created on our website looking for access and admin privileges. Some of those accounts have even sent emails to my webmaster account asking to be upgraded. The majority of my time with our site has been trying to separate the fake accounts from the real members, and it’s work that, hopefully, will pay off soon.
By the way, I floated the idea of coming on board to that content curator I selected and I think they’re ready to start by the end of the summer! The job is going to be pretty background from the website’s point of view: going through our decades of WP content to find our most celebrated and unique items and bringing those archives to a special area for display. We have been a resource to many folks and even many other sites over the years, and I definitely want to show that value off!
A few months ago, we shared information about the Twitch channel that has been streaming Iron Chef Japan, and I’d like to hear from you whether you’ve used that stream to reconnect with the things you’ve loved about Iron Chef! Have you run into other streams featuring other Iron Chef content?
Before I close, I want to welcome you to Summer – at least everyone in the Northern Hemisphere, that is. With grills and other cooking implements flying off of store shelves, and outdoor events becoming more and more possible, leave a comment here on what YOUR summer “Secret Ingredient” of choice would be if you went up against an Iron Chef. Allez cuisine!
Thanks for reading, and we’ll talk again soon!