Iron Chef Collection

In case you missed this comment, I thought I’d make a new post out of it:

tetsujin070561 Says:
July 20th, 2010 at 7:41 pm

As the “anonymous” contributor of the recent run of “new” IC battles, I must say that I am extremely disappointed with King Tuthead. He does not keep me or the users of this site informed as to the possible posting of new battles, ignores my e-mail to him offering to help with the postings, and offers few explanations for his protracted absence here. Of the last batch of five battles I mailed him, he has posted just three over a span of FOUR MONTHS.

I’m sorry to have to say this, but until this site is straighted out, there will be NO MORE NEW BATTLES at ironcheffans.info.
I can appreciate that one might be overwhelmed with excessive work obligations, but that is no excuse for the utter lack of any explanation to me or to you all. Good luck finding a new source of IC battles, King Tuthead.

I’m sorry I screwed it up for the rest of you regarding the “new” episodes. I would love to have seen them, and I hope we do see them some day.

I will be the first to admit that this site has slipped down my list of priorities over the last 6-8 months. This site has always been, and will always be, a hobby for me. I obviously have not been able to commit to it as I did when I launched it in February 2008. Don’t worry. I have no intention of taking the site down any time in the foreseeable future, so you don’t have to start furiously downloading episodes. I will post the two remaining subtitled episodes within the next seven days.

Keith

Has anyone seen this show yet? I have downloaded the first episode, but I haven’t watched it yet. I will put that first episode up for download if there is any interest in seeing it. (I don’t plan to put up any other episodes of the series, but I thought people might be curious.)

UPDATE: I’m three minutes into the episode, and I can already tell I will not be able to watch it. It’s definitely patterned after Iron Chef America as opposed to Iron Chef. If you want to see it, I’ll put it up, but I don’t think it’s a show for me. (I should probably give it more than 3 minutes to impress me, but it’s just so painful to watch!)

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.

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.

• Iron Chef Japan – the episodes that aired on Food Network
• Iron Chef Specials – Special battles from around the world
• Original Episodes – Japanese language episodes that did not air on Food Network
• And the videos related to Iron Chef but not episodes are Beyond Kitchen Stadium

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.

‘T was the night before Christmas and in old K.S.

All the Iron Chefs were stirring, it’s what they do best.

The ovens were lit and the theme was prepared.

In hopes that the Chairman soon would be there.

A handsome man enters. The women go ga-ga.

I knew in a moment that it must be Kaga.

His jacket, eye catching. His style, quite unique.

His friends, we’ll see later to offer critique.

The stars of the show from their podium came.

The announcer Fukui called each one by name.

On, Kobe, the youngest. On, Morimoto!

Now, Sakai! Now, Chen. Stand in front of your photo.

With skills of great masters the chefs start at their task.

If there’s something we want to know, Ohta will ask.

Sakai with his circle molds. Chen with his wok.

Kobe makes pasta. Morimoto will shock.

The Chairman just smiles as he exits the scene.

Happy Christmas to all and Allez Cuisine.

(Apologies to Clement C. Moore for butchering his Christmas classic.)

It is Christmas in Kitchen Stadium, and we have several Christmas themed battles for this week.

• Chicken Battle (110) – Ishinabe vs. Borie – This is the only Ishinabe battle that ever aired on Food Network. It was the very first Iron Chef Christmas battle from back in season 1.
• Strawberry Battle (249) – Sakai vs. Waki – Dr. Hattori calls this challenger a genius.
• Oyster Battle (348) – Sakai vs. Groult – The challenger was the second MOF winner to do battle in Kitchen Stadium. The first was Jacques Borie from the Chicken Battle above.
• Turkey Battle (647) – Morimoto vs. Ogue – The challenger trained under a famous 3-star French chef. (We also have the original Japanese version of this episode. Be sure to check out the Christmas-style music during the recap of dishes and announcement of judges.)
• Chestnut Battle (541OA) – Kobe vs. Seki – While not officially a Christmas battle, I can’t help but think of The Christmas Song when I saw the theme listed. Did they roast these chestnuts on a open fire? Watch and find out in this ICC Exclusive from 1997.

Dear Santa,

I have been a very good Iron Chef fan this year. I think I have earned some really good presents. And if you bring any of these things to me, I promise to share them with my fellow Iron Chef fans.

• I would like some baseball cards, a NERF football, some Legos, and. . .(Um. . .Wait a minute. That’s my list from about 25 years ago. Sorry.)

• I would like some audio clips of Takeshi Kaga performing in some of his famous musical roles, like Tony in West Side Story and in Jesus Christ Superstar.
• I would like two additional pre-FN subtitled episodes.
• I would like a movie from 1983 featuring Takeshi Kaga as a swordsman in 17th century Japan.
• I would like Mayuko Takata wrapped up in a bow under my tree. (OK. I’ll be honest. If Santa comes through on this wish, I’m not sharing. )
• I would like to have a special that has never been seen by most non-Japanese Iron Chef fans.

Which of these would you most like Santa to bring the Iron Chef fan community this Christmas? Tell him in the comments, and I’ll see if I can’t convince him to come through for us.