Easter is this weekend, so I thought I’d make it this week’s Episodes of the Week theme. The obvious choice for an Easter theme would be eggs. While egg was the theme ingredient 5 times during the run of the show (203, 310, 417, 519, 709), three of the episodes did not air on Food Network, and the other two are already in our database. Of course, the whole point of these EotW posts is to add new episodes to the database, so let’s change directions slightly. This week’s Episodes of the Week theme is EGGplant.
- Episode 225 – Iron Chef Chen vs. Koichi Tabata (The challenger is the oldest to compete in Kitchen Stadium)
- Episode 330 – Iron Chef Sakai vs. Shinichi Nagamatsu (The challenger runs an exclusive restaurant in the mountains of Nara. He grows his own vegetables and catches his own fish every morning.)
- Episode 531 – Iron Chef Chen vs. Sousei Kawaguchi (Not aired on Food Network)
- Episode 622 – Iron Chef Kobe vs. Yasuhiro Sasajima
New this week in the video database: Eggplant (225), Eggplant (330)
- And as an Easter bonus, we add a new video to BKS. This addition to Beyond Kitchen Stadium shows Iron Chef Michiba announcing the theme ingredient for a battle between Nakamura and Morimoto. (This episode did not air on Food Network.) The theme ingredient is tamago (egg). For some reason, Chairman Kaga thinks this announcement is funny. This short clip is in Japanese with no subtitles.
These episodes (225, 330, 622, BKS-tamago) may be found by searching our video database.
March 18th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
[...] 3/18 Episodes of the Week – EGGplant It’s almost Easter, so this week’s Episodes of the Week theme is EGGplant. (We had to skip using egg because we already had all of our egg battles in the database, but at least this name is close.) Also this week, to keep with the Easter theme, we add a new video to Beyond Kitchen Stadium that features Michiba announcing the theme ingredient of tamago (egg). Iron Chef Collection
March 21st, 2008 at 1:26 am
The clip when Michiba announced the theme ingredient was good. But why did Chairman Kaga stand there behind him?
March 21st, 2008 at 4:01 am
Well, the episode was some sort of a Morimoto Special/Retrospective. If it was decided that Morimoto would battle is predecessor (Nakamura), Chairman Kaga probably wanted Michiba to introduce the theme ingredient, since he is considered an Hall of Famer of Kitchen Stadium and was the first Iron Chef Japanese.
March 21st, 2008 at 6:49 am
Here is the ICR (Iron Chef Reporter) write-up of that episode.
http://www.ironchef.info/icr/SP_NYfair.txt
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:33 am
Thanks for posting these!
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