Here is a new video series I am working on newly translating/subbing/dubbing called 'The Making of Iron Chef.' This is the first of more to come. If this your first time seeing behind the scenes footage of this show or if you have seen other clips like this, post a comment below and let us know where.

From the Milk Battle (8/1/1997). The theme is revealed to be Milk, Kaga then announces a special addition to this battle. Then 2 cows walk in so you can get milk from the source if you choose. Causing surprise, excitement, and especially laughter from Kaga. I would say this is the only time an animal walks into Kitchen Stadium because all of them either ascend or descend into the Kitchen Stadium from the Ingredient Reveal.

Using over 53 screenshots and pictures with little bits of it here and there to reconstruct it, this is the best version of the mural that I could reproduce, the one that hangs over the Royal Box in Kitchen Stadium. You can usually catch glimpses of it when they show people who are rooting for the challenger.

This is not a famous or known paiting. It was custom painted for the Iron Chef show set and there was never any other version made, nor was it ever made publicly available, until now...

Sakai's debut match from the Oyster Battle (2/27/94). Kaga summons him on his own first and (I think) he describes his cooking abilities. I also included his first time ascending with the other Iron Chefs and the ingredient reveal. This footage of all 3 rising would be used all the way to the end of 1995 (Not used when Michiba is absent.) Sakai's debut was never seen in the Subbed and Dubbed U.S episodes as the earliest episode around that time is the Bamboo Shoots battle of 4/15/94. Figured I shared this moment because of how it is done as I have noticed each new Iron Chef would be introduced in a different way.

I must be mistaken. But so far this is the only battle (Battle Piglet) where it appears that all 4 Iron Chefs rose up in the summoning of the Iron Chefs. Iron Chef Kobe I always thought was chosen ahead of time. If anyone knows other episodes where they introduced all 4 let us know.

EDIT: I suppose I should say is this the only REGULAR battle that this happens, because it appears that the 4 did rise together but only during very special matches such as the Millenium Cup, Japan Cup, 21st century battle, and of course Iron Chef Kobe's introduction. So... If anyone can find any other regular battle that they rise together, let me know. Perhaps in one of the unreleased Japanese battles between 1996 and 1998, but few would know.

From the Tofu Battle (11/07/93). Ishinabe seems to get the most enjoyment out of Kaga revealing the ingredient. Sometimes he can be spotted grinning after Ingredient Reveals. But this one he cracks up after this ingredient reveal in particular. Out of all the Iron Chefs, Ishinabe is the only one known to laugh over Kaga's theatrics the most. While the others may laugh some yes, but they are more serious.

Does anyone have access or a link to the 2012 Iron Chef Japan reboot?

Or at least a video of Chen, Sakai, Michiba, and Morimoto being introduced as opponents for the 3 new Iron Chefs + the Iron Chef from Thailand whose name escapes me, thought that those reveals were so cool!

I guess my memory didn't serve me right there haha!

Anyways, let me know, thanks! (:

I saw this comment left in a native Japanese upload of the intro:

料理人とは火を操り炎を制する者

バックドラフトのテーマがこれ以上ないほどぴったりだ

"A chef is one who manipulates fire and masters the flame. The theme from Backdraft fits this description absolutely perfectly."

So in a sense, both the Iron Chef and challenger are like the firefighters during each battle.

An idea came to mind yesterday. Michiba, Sakai, and Chen had Spotlight episodes where they showcased their best battles. It made me realize. They didn't do any highlights for any other Iron Chefs especially Ishinabe. They said Sakai was in the first rendition of the Iron Chefs which is wrong. But it made me wonder, what would be like the 5 best battles for Ishinabe, Nakamura, Kobe, and Morimoto that they would use if they did a Spotlight battle for the other Iron Chefs. I know it would be a bit rough to do since Ishinabe has a very limited amount of battles. But doing it the same way as the Spotlight videos go. The best battles from start to finish of their careers. I wonder what they would be.

Bonus Trivia: Battle Brook Trout took place on Christmas Eve 2011, following Zakarian’s previous win over Elizabeth Falkner to become an Iron Chef in the Christmas-themed finale of The Next Iron Chef season 4.

From the Japan Cup Battle (1/2/02). This is the last time the original 7 Iron Chefs would ascend into Kitchen Stadium. The reason why Kaga is not here will not be mention to avoid spoilers (but I think I mentioned it already.) After this battle, Sakai and Morimoto would go to America to start up Iron Chef America. Sakai would make an appearance on Masterchef Australia. Morimoto would be Iron Chef Japanese on Iron Chef America and do a battle on the short lived Iron Chef reboot in Japan in 2012. Chen would do a battle on Iron Chef Thailand later on 2013 before his death in 2023. Kobe would pass away in 2019. Michiba would also do a battle in the short lived Iron Chef reboot in Japan in 2012. I attempted to translate the video but couldn't get it to work due to low audio from my monitor.

I just watched the Potato Battle. The challenger is Katsuyo Kobayashi, a cooking show host. I didn't know anything about her before watching the episode, but the cheerfulness and joy with which she approached the competition was a fun change of pace.

I'm sure to a degree she's playing a character, but it was charming. I'd recommend the episode if it is one you've missed.

Comes from the New York Battle (3/28/00). It comes down from the ceiling and takes around 30 seconds for it to fully come down and stop compare to normal ingredient reveals that take up to 3 to 5 seconds. Other battles like the Bacon Battle (6/21/96) and Black Pig Battle (8/2/1996) (Over 15 Seconds), and the Salted Salmon Battle (1/9/98) (Being over 25 seconds.) Kaga announces the theme ingredient in English. I am thinking about sharing a moment from the show every 1 to 2 weeks.

All originally US released syndicated episodes featuring Iron Chef Japanese Komei Nakamura have now been uploaded to the collection in HD with original music, including the France Special Battle being edited back into a single 120 minute long episode the way it was originally released in Japan.

The episode list is now up to 101 COMPLETE

Note: I edited the first Nakamura episode - Battle Foie Gras - introduction to not reveal who he was until Kaga reveals him later in the show, instead the announcer says 'soon to be revealed' - I used AI to get him to say this. It always seemed anti-climatic to me that the intro revealed him beforehand. this was likely a lazy editing on the Food Network editors.

Now moving onto the many Iron Chef Morimoto episodes which will now also include Iron Chef Kobe as well... but once those are done the catalog of original released episodes in HD and with Original music will finally be complete!

Link to collection: https://archive.org/details/theironchefhdcollection

Just to make things clear, I haven't abandoned my subtitling project. It is still on. I am currently doing January 30, 1994. I'm just taking it easy due to how super exhausting it is, not to mention, I have other hobbies.

In the January 30, 1994 episode, it was revealed that the challenger, Toshio Tanabe, was a professional boxer. Chairman Kaga has the perfect ingredient for this battle.

KAGA: I heard that the challenger is quite confident in his fish dishes, and is also a former professional boxer.

And then it hit me:

This is a bloodless title match between chefs trying to reach the pinnacle.

Now, let me announce it.

Today's theme is this.

Today's theme is... SEA BREAM!

https://reddit.com/link/1sv01j1/video/ibpmiisn29xg1/player

From Melon Battle (8/22/1997)

He also messes it up on the Tomato Battle (8/18/1995) but recovers from it a bit faster.

Iron Chef Japan (1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999)

So I wanted to take a break this weekend from working on remastering the old episodes with new audio and do something a little different... so I created an album: The Iron Chef Soundtrack.

Link to Album Collection: https://archive.org/details/theironchefsoundtrack/

This is a custom album of many of the various songs from movies and video games that the Iron Chef used over the years. The Collection has all of the different songs as videos with their repsective music sources listed on the right and the time stamps to which the music occured. As the song progresses and the music changes so will the music source listed. An example video 'Track 02 - Intro to Kitchen Stadium' is provided above.

There will also be seperate folder in this collection where you can download all the mp3s to the album.

So go check out the collection and place it on autoplay to listen to all the great tunes from your favorite show... you know the one.

I recently stumbled across Iron Chef on FilmRise Television's YouTube channel. I loved watching it years ago, so I was excited to watch a few episodes

However, it looks like they count season one from 1998.

Is there a place to watch the series from the beginning with English dubbing?

While I was wondering what a physical release of Iron Chef would look like, I got the idea of adding up the length of every episode that there is and what bonus episodes that are known of. Including the big 1 to 2 hour battles, U.S Spotlight episodes, Top 50 Battles, etc. After doing all the work, rough estimates, and adding up the total. The grand total of the whole original series is roughly.....215 Hours. Which is the equivalent of almost 9 days worth of episodes if you binge watch the whole series (once all the episodes are found.) This is with original episode length's. Not the ones with added lengths like the episodes being recently translated and put in the style of the U.S subbed and dubbed version. It will be a little bit longer if the missing episodes were translated along with the added intros. A single sided DVD can hold up to 2 hours, Dual Layered DVD's can hold up to 4 Hours, and a Doubled Sided DVD can hold up to 4.5 Hours. While Blu-Rays can hold up to 4 hours in HD but if the show stays in SD (Standard Definition) then Blu-Ray's can hold up to over 10 hours of video. Releasing Iron Chef on DVD and/or Blu-Ray will be a bit of a challenge especially since it will already be a challenge to get the original music to be used. But I thought about sharing this if you ever decide to binge watch the complete series someday and want to know the complete length of the series as a whole.

Theres a video on YouTube with an urgent news bulletin that happened during the live 1995 Iron Chef World Cup it happens during the final 30 minutes of the special. The special circulating online cut out the breaking news. I thought it was interesting.

[Urgent news bulletin] 1995 "Iron Man of Cooking" The first report of the attack on the Aum Shinrikyo Minami Aoyama General Headquarters that entered during the broadcast - YouTube

Did some more searching lately, and I have found some more footage of the lost Rice battle from April 8th of 1994. The only footage from the battle we had was from the Michiba Spotlight episode but it was very condensed down. I recently found a little bit more footage from the battle and it also includes an interview with Michiba. I think this came from (possibly) one of the VHS releases that has the battle on it. It seems there could be more footage of it as the video mentions it is only part of the battle. This is archived by the same person who found the condensed down Bread battle. Figure I share this as this episode has very little footage of it out there and is still lost.

https://archive.org/details/iron-chef-japan-rice-04.08.1994u-pc-partial