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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.
This is another one of those episodes where you will instantly recognize the challenger, despite the fact that you probably have not seen the episode yet. Why? Food Network (or Fuji) chose to include many chefs from 1996/1997 episodes they chose not to air in the added Food Network opening to the show. This is one of them.
Philippe Batton saw his mentor and two of his friends go down in defeat at the hands of Iron Chef Sakai. He began his culinary training at the age of 15. He became a head chef at the young age of 32. (He still lives in Japan. Here is a website for his restaurants.) Will the young French chef have what it takes to defeat an Iron Chef?
(Edit 3/22) – Only four days after posting this episode, I saw this story on one of the sites I read everyday. What are the odds?
(Edit 3/25) – Be sure to check out the comments to this post. You’ll see that we had a VERY SPECIAL visitor to the site. 🙂
What makes this episode a rare and special treat for current Iron Chef fans is that it comes from the time before Iron Chef was aired on Food Network. It was recorded from one of the local stations broadcasting the show. (In fact, it still has some local commercials intact.) It is in Japanese WITH English subtitles. I know you will enjoy being able to experience this rare episode not shown in North America in over 10 years. (And it has BACON!!)
There are two options for viewing this episode. The pop-up player will use the usual divx encoded file. This smaller, lower quality file can also be downloaded directly using the “Download File” option. Also in the download menu this time is an option to download a higher quality VOB file (approx. 1.0GB). (You can play the vob file in VLC Player.)
New in the video database this week: 426s – Bacon – Sakai vs. Baton (subbed)
Please make sure to thank our anonymous benefactor for continuing to provide us with these great episodes.
Hi, everybody.
I know it has been over a month since the last update, and I’m sorry about that. The good news is that you will be rewarded for your patience. I recently received 5 more pre-FN subtitled episodes that I will add over the next couple of weeks. Ryori no Tetsujin kono ato.
All from 1996 – Pomphret, Bacon, Clam, Fatty Tuna, Oyster
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.
It is time for another pair of episodes that are exclusive to the Iron Chef Collection. Neither one of these episodes ever aired on Food Network.
New in the database this week: Salmon Roe – 424sub and Winter Melon – 440OA. Enjoy
I am working on getting two more episodes (1 Subbed, 1 Japanese) ready for posting. I really doubt they will go up tonight, but they will be up by the end of the week. Sorry for the delay.