IRON CHEF -the best TV show ever?

I can honestly say that I am addicted to watching the Iron Chef. Am I alone out there or what? I have my fiancee addicted to it, and she isn't in the business. It is great for chefs with a little Who wants to be a Millionaire as well. I love the hype they create in the beginning. talking about the rivals, or the challenger. Everything leading up to the taste test is the best. I even refer to my fiancee as "Suki-zan" and I have these visions of beeting out Iron Chef French in a grueling duel with "3-eyed Monkfish" Please respond

Iron Chef rocks...just sit back and have pure entertainment!! From the beginning of the show when the Master With the Really Bad Hair pulls out a yellow pepper and bites into it with such passion to the voice overs of the judges, to the chefs running around like kitchen psychos....can we ask for anything more? I'm addicted too and am glad to find someone else who is. Spent many nights watching these guys while enjoying a cold one (or two). Life's simple pleasures...

Unfortunatley the Iron Chef isn't carried on any of the cable channels where I live. I have heard alot about it, though.

The Iron Chef is the greatest thing I have ever seen.

The Iron Chef Rocks, it is my all time favorite show!

[mudbug]

The first time I saw it, I knew it'd be a hit among chefs. Takes all those other cooking shows up a few notches doesn't it?

I'm not a chef, and I don't usually learn a lot from it, but Iron Chef is the most entertaining cooking show on TV. The problem is that my wife does not tolerate more than 5 minutes of the Food Network and she usually won't tolerate more than 15 seconds of Iron Chef. Too bad for me. I have to sneak it in in small doses.

Hey guys, wanted to let you know that there are also a couple coversations about the Iron Chef over in "The Late Night Cafe" forum. Check them out...

• It's time for Iron Chef trivia!
• Iron Chef Dream Matches
• Iron Chef

Enjoy!

[Live_to_cook]

The Iron Chefs win at least 4 out of 5 times of the episodes I've seen, and even accounting for pro-IC bias among panel, it usually doesn't seem close.

Here's what they should do: occasionally pit the Iron Chefs against each other. Pick a neutral ingredient common to both cuisines, and let the knives fly...

[IronchefMS]

im right there with ya'll....my draw to the show is the creativity under stress. thats what seperates the true culinary genius from the average joe griller like myself.

[Mangilao30]

I love this show and miss it so much, did anyone see the Iron Chef America, or has a link to details? When an Iron Chef challenges an American chef, I am at the edge of my seat.

[Mikeb]

Originally Posted by Live_to_cook

Here's what they should do: occasionally pit the Iron Chefs against each other. Pick a neutral ingredient common to both cuisines, and let the knives fly...

There actually were a few episodes like this. Very entertaining.

[MikeLM]

I've been interested in the enthusiasm on this site for Iron Chef for several years. As an amateur cook and frequent watcher of the Food Channel, I've had only tepid interest in the show.

I don't have an industrial kitchen, no platoons of assistants, no budget for expensive principal ingredients, no larder of every other ingredient imaginable, and - probably most important - no training background to give me any idea what to do with the suprise! ingredient of the evening. To say nothing of being able to pay for a lot of them.

In that situation, I would have to dump everything I could get my hands on into a deep fryer and run like ****.

In addition, they don't offer recipes for us duffers.

So - and I'm respectfully curious - what's the attraction for you pros? It's obviously genuine.

You are closer to the protagonists that I could ever be; you've got some good equipment, some talented assistants, and access to a lot of ingredients. You've also got the technical background to grab a suprise ingredient challenge and do something creative with it.

Is it the fun of seeing someone like you as gladiator? Is it more like watching a football game, but in your own field?

Again, I'm not at all critical or disrespectful of your enthusiasm. I guess I'm trying to explore the difference in background or approach to explain such different responses to the show.

Mike

[Harpua]

I like it but the Americans get cocky.