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At the beginning of the year, this Iron Chef Fans website was in a different place and so were we as fans. It is no exaggeration to say that weeks after my last post on this site, the entire world went through a massive shift and everyone across the globe finds themselves impacted in one way or another. I hope that this message finds you all healthy and safe during this time.
Everyone is dealing with the impact of the pandemic to their jobs, their way of life, and television personalities are no different! Where some have chosen simple seclusion, others have focused on their social media, working their way through a backlog of fan emails to connect with their audience and keep them engaged.
I’m going to compile a list of your questions and send them to people associated with the Iron Chef shows – could be a guest chef, one of the Iron Chefs, commentators, guests, judges… Post your questions and who they are addressed to as a comment on this post and we will put your requests together and send an email! We’ll try to find contact information for your addressee – if you can help us find that and post it in the comment, it would be greatly appreciated! Any replies from these impromptu interviews will be posted here under a new “Interviews” section for your enjoyment!
Let’s see what you’re curious about! Who would you like to hear from and what would you like to know?
Stay safe and healthy!
-Scott
Thank you so much for your patience, site visitors! Our site had been experiencing technical issues for several days due to the servers that route viewers to our website were not functioning as we intended. We’ve worked with our provider to correct the issue and, again, appreciate your patience in sticking with us. Please continue to let us know if you have issues by contacting our account at ironcheffansinfo@gmail.com!
I may be way out of the loop, but when did Iron Chef Canada become a thing? I haven’t watched them yet, but I have two episodes of Iron Chef Canada in hand. Is there any interest in seeing them?
Also, does anyone have a copy of the recent US airings of Iron Chef Yomigaeru they’d be willing to share so I can post it here?
Keith
Iron Chef Canada – Season 1, Episode 1
Iron Chef Canada – Season 1, Episode 2
Edit: I’ve watched about 3 minutes of Iron Chef Canada, and I don’t think it’s going to be for me. It is very similar in style to Iron Chef America, which I didn’t watch either. I will still post if anybody wants to see it. (I’m completely aware of my original Iron Chef elitism when talk about the new versions. What can I say? I like what I like. And that’s Chairman Kaga on the stage, Fukui/Doc Hattori in the commentary box, and Iron Chefs rising up into Kitchen Stadium.)
As the title says, we’re renewed/paid through the end of November 2017, so don’t worry about the site going down. (I’m surprised it’s been up this long already. I can’t believe the first post was February 1st, 2008!!)
First, I would like to apologize to all of you who have sent emails and messages the last few months and not gotten a response. I was not deliberately ignoring you. I just saw a ton of messages in an e-mail account I kind of forgot about (tuthead@ironcheffans.info). Sorry. I will make sure that address gets forwarded to one I use more often so I don’t miss messages in the future.
There are apparently a lot of our missing episodes on Youtube now. Any ideas on how we can share those links in an efficient way? Maybe have a master YOUTUBE LINK post that gets updated? Perhaps contact those who posted them and ask for permission to rehost them here? (I know they don’t “own” the episodes and would not need their permission, but I’m not going to take something from their channel and rehost without contacting them.) Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I’ll try to do some clean-up/maintenance on the site in the near future like cleaning out the spam comments and making sure the links page is more up to date. I’m sorry I let it get as bad as it has gotten.
And to those asking about donations, I will always gladly take the help, but do not ever feel obligated to donate anything. I’ve said from the beginning that this is and will always be a free site for the Iron Chef fan community.
Welcome to another year.
Keith
The chairman has received a letter from the challenger asking for a battle in Kitchen Stadium. At 6 feet tall, the challenger is an imposing figure in the kitchen. He is known as Wajima’s Benkei, named after a famed warrior from the 12th century. Among his tools is a 3-ft knife.
The theme ingredient is a special delicacy of the Sea of Japan. The annual yield of this crab is only about 10. They are so large, they are brought in from the back of Kitchen Stadium. A couple of the Takaashi-Gani (also known as the Japanese Spider Crab) in the tank a 3m in length!
This episode is in Japanese with English subtitles.