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.
February 1st, 2010 at 9:23 am
Here are some highlights from the past two years:
–Over 125,000 video downloads
–Completion of the entire collection of dubbed Food Network episodes
–Bringing many specials rarely seen outside of Japan: Beijing Special, Japan Cup 2002, Iron Chef World Cup 1997, Millennium Cup, Indonesia Special, Iron Chef best 50 Special, Japanese version of King of Iron Chefs final, Japanese version of New York Battle
–30 full Japanese episodes not aired on Food Network
–The first viewing for many people of subtitled pre-Food Network episodes
I’m rather proud of the site we have here, Iron Chef fans.
February 1st, 2010 at 3:38 pm
This is a great site. It takes 30 to 50 hours to d/l a show on dialup, but it’s well worth it. Thanks for all you do and Happy Birthday! We wish you many more!!!
February 1st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
I concur with the above – I am glad somebody besides myself is still working hard to find and watch some of the impossible to find ones – like any regular battles with Ishinabe, or really any of the early 1993 and 1994 episodes. Thanks for all of your hard work!!! Allez cuisine!!!
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:35 am
Gratz Iron Chef fans and Keith for making this site the biggest site for Iron Chef videos! It sort of like a library for Iron Chef Fans. Some of really rare collections that you can’t find it anywhere but here. I’m proud of what u have accomplish. Thank you so much for all your hard work and effort.
February 3rd, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Hey Tuthead, thanks for the nod on this 2-year anniversary post (and hi to you too Lostbabee and any other Stage6 friends). I’ve still been lurking around, downloading every new episode you make available. I wish I could be more active in this community and have more to contribute, but getting married and trying to stay afloat in this economy has taken up a lot of free time that I used to have.
I appreciate everything you have done with this site and hope to see all the missing episodes somehow resurface. I’ll be right there in line to watch them. Happy Birthday ICC!
February 4th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Happy Birthday ironcheffans.info .. and thank you for picking up when stage6 went down… I was really worried for a bit..
Hopefully as a small birthday present back to the site..everyone leaves some comments on the vids they dl/watch.. Its nice to see what everyone thinks!
February 21st, 2010 at 1:01 am
A beautiful update for a beautiful site.
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:51 am
Thank you for creating this site!
I found a torrent with a lot of the FN shows, but it was incomplete.
Also there is a way any Japanese speakers could help us non-speakers enjoy the non-subtitled episodes.
You can create whats called an srt file for any .avi file
It’s time consuming, but anyone with notepad can make one.
March 8th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Just wanted to stop and say thanks for creating this great site. Iron Chef is almost impossible to view these days, they don’t play re-runs anymore and it’s next to impossible to find places to get these episodes. It’s great I found this place and I want to give props to all the people who put in the hard work to get this place together and to put all these episodes in one place. Cheers!