Iron Chef (1993)

Genre

game show, cooking show

Country

Japan

Length

7 seasons, 299 episodes

Rated

TV-G

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Professional chefs compete against one of five resident Iron Chefs in a timed cooking battle. Each episode centers on a secret theme ingredient that both chefs must use to create multiple dishes.

energeticdramaticcompetitivetensestylishfast-pacedtheatricalintense

What happens

Iron Chef (料理の鉄人, Ryōri no Tetsujin; literally "Iron People of Cooking") is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although four occasional specials were produced from January 5, 2000, to January 2, 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Food Network in Canada, the Cooking Channel in the United States until Asian-American specialty television channel ChimeTV took over reruns in 2022, and on Special Broadcasting Service in Australia; in the United States, it is streamed by Peacock TV and Pluto TV. There are 5 spinoffs, with the latest being Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. Fuji TV aired a new version of the show, titled Iron Chef (アイアンシェフ, Aian Shefu), premiering on October 26, 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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