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I’m sure we’ll look back on this and laugh, but right now I’m not smiling. I’m really sorry I messed up the good part of the site. I will try to keep you updated and a part of the process as I try to get the downloads available again as soon as possible.
Here is the plan:
—Edit the links on the Full Series Episode List to point directly to the video file. At least this way you can still easily access the episode videos even if you don’t have other details about the episode. Fortunately, I was pretty consistent in the file naming, so some copy/paste with minor edits should make the process go fairly quickly. This is now done. You can directly access the episodes by clicking the green ep number in the Full Episode List.
–Make a Google Doc of the Episode List and start putting together the relevant information again. (Original Airdate, IC name, Challenger name, description, etc.) I plan to have this posted in the next day or so and openly available to edit, so anyone can help with this process.
–Use that information to start rebuilding download pages for individual episodes. Do you want me to use the old system or is there another way you think I should do it?
–Re-edit links on the Full Series Episode List to point to the new information/download page of each video.
–Never update or touch the site again so I don’t screw something else up. (This step is optional.) 🙂
I’m definitely open to suggestions for improving the site as the process moves forward. Thank you again for your patience and for your support.
Keith
Apparently, something changed on the host end so that the site was looking on the wrong server for the database. As you can see, I’ve managed to find what happened and get it up again. I still have to fix the download page, but I will do that as soon as possible. Thank you for you being patient.
**Edit – The download page is being a little difficult. I’ll have to take a look at it when I get home from work. Sorry, everybody.
**Edit 2 – I may have killed the file database. (The files are still uploaded, but the program that I used to link to them did something funky with the database that stored all the episode descriptions, judges, info, etc.) I may have to find another solution. I really, really (really, really) don’t want to have to re-enter every single episode description + information. Maybe we can make this a group effort?
–Keith
Believe it or not, Iron Chef is one of the things that initially sparked my interest in Japan. Since it all began, I have taken three trips to visit Japan, the most recent being in September of this year. (If anyone is interested in seeing my pictures, let me know and I’ll throw up some links.) I now spend as much time (or more) listening to/watching Japanese music/TV/movies/etc. as I do with American entertainment on a typical day. And I have Iron Chef to thank (to blame? to thank!) for that.
Even though there is not much traffic here any more, I just couldn’t let the lights go out on our little slice of Kitchen Stadium. The site will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year. (The site went live Feb 1, 2008)  And while I’m not willing to promise anything past this, the hosting bill has been paid for the next 12 months, through Nov 2018. (If you want to throw a few bucks toward covering the hosting/domain renewal bill, you are more than welcome to do so, but don’t feel bad if you don’t.)
I’m proud to have given this classic a home on the internet for the last 10 years and to be able to share it with fans from all over the world. I hope you still enjoy it.
–Keith
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
Hi Everybody.
I know the site has become essentially an archive and not offering anything new of value in a while. It is approaching the time to renew the domain name and the hosting for another year. Do people still use the site? Do you want me to keep it going? I have no problem doing so, but I want it to be because the Iron Chef community thinks it is a valuable resource for them and for new fans.
I’d gladly appreciate any thoughts, concerns, suggestions that you may have.
Keith
UPDATE 11/27: It has been renewed for another year. (I will renew the domain next for 2 years when it is up next month.) I appreciate all who said they wanted to chip in to offset the costs, but I don’t want anybody to feel like they need to do that to keep the site up and going. (Of course, I’m not going to turn it down either. 🙂 ) I hope you all continue to enjoy the site.
KB
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.