Iron Chef (About The Cooking Show)
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The Iron Chef, that was originally named Ironmen of Cooking, was a television program in Japan that had been produced by Fuji TV that began airing in 1993. It started as a ninety minute show that presented cooking contests and then final and earnest battles. After only twenty three episodes the show was cut down to one hour and the preliminary contests were eliminated, leaving only the fierce finals. The ongoing series went off the air in 1999 but continued with television specials until 2002. All in all, the Iron Chef or the Ironmen of Cooking television show aired a total of three hundred episodes.
The Iron Chef was a very diversely unconventional game show hosted by an extravagantly dressed colorful character who was nicknamed Chairman Kaga. The Iron Chef featured two regular commentators plus two more guest commentators. And the four commentators doubled as judges of the contests. The commentary of all that was going on among the contestants in the kitchen was detailed and carried an air of entertainment and lighthearted teasing.
The Iron Chef was an exceptionally popular show in Japan and its success in the United States far exceeded that in Japan when the Food Network picked it up and had it dubbed in English. The American audiences found the show charming and amusing with its outlandish food combinations and bizarre recipes while also being informative.
Each one of the episodes of the Iron Chef television show began with an introductory story about a peculiar food connoisseur (Chairman Kaga) who made his lifelong dream a reality by building a cooking amphitheater named “Kitchen Stadium” in his own castle. Swarms upon swarms of renowned chefs from around the world would rush to the Kitchen Stadium in an effort to complete against Chairman Kaga’s globally celebrated Gourmet Academy that was controlled and managed by his four Iron Chefs.
In Iron Chef’s beginning episodes, challengers were paired up against each other in preliminary contests and the winners of those contests who proved their worthiness were then slated to compete against of the four Iron Chefs, one contestant against one Iron Chef. Each one of the Iron Chefs, by the way, specialized in a distinctly different cuisine: Japanese, Chinese, French and Italian. A competing challenger who won twice against an Iron Chef was given the highly esteemed title of “Honorary Iron Chef.”
However, when the show was shortened from ninety to sixty minutes and the preliminary contests were purged off the air challengers who were usually well known chefs from Japan or from other countries were given the opportunity to choose one of the Iron Chefs to complete against. A challenger who won a contest against his opposing Iron Chef won “The People’s Ovation and Fame Forever” award because the previously awarded “Honorary Iron Chef” award was discontinued by then.
Every episode of the Iron Chef television show allowed the chefs a full hour to prepare a multicourse meal (the record number of courses prepared on the show was eight) based on a key ingredient (usually exotic and quite costly) that had to be infused in each of their dishes. The judging was based on the best articulated, unique and one of a kind display of the theme ingredient’s characteristics. As the work was great and the time was short, each challenging chef was provided with two assistants from the Gourmet Academy.
At the end of the show, the chefs revealed detailed explanations of their dishes and the ingredients used while the camera zoomed in and the commentators editorialized.
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