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Post by Sanji Himura on Nov 16, 2023 14:54:00 GMT -5
I saw that, but I would like to go episode by episode.
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Post by Sanji Himura on Nov 11, 2023 8:58:35 GMT -5
My natural curiosity as a content creator has won out and I would like to do something that has never been seen before. With a panel of Iron Chef fans/experts, I would like to go over each episode of Iron Chef Japan (dubbed) in a round table format analyzing each dish and each challenger under the microscope of Rosanjin's philosophies on cooking. I will be using Streamyard for recording episodes, but if you don't know how to use Streamyard, that is okay, I can guide you through it. Also, I do not require cameras (it is general channel policy).
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Post by Sanji Himura on Oct 8, 2023 12:36:52 GMT -5
So I was notified by someone in my discord that The Cooking Channel was airing dubbed episodes of Iron Chef 2012 series. Only saw one battle, but I am happy to report that Iron Chef hype is alive and well back in the United States!
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Post by Sanji Himura on Oct 8, 2023 12:33:44 GMT -5
Welcome back. It's great to see some returning faces.
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Post by Sanji Himura on Apr 12, 2023 21:33:27 GMT -5
As we previously discussed (you know where), I actually have the equipment available to do the conversions (VHS, Capture card, ect.) I can do one as a test on the quality of the VHS tapes that you have, and then if the quality of the finished product is of satisfaction, I can do the rest as fast as you can get them to me.
I extend this offer to anyone who has VHS tapes of Iron Chef.
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jun 28, 2022 17:51:13 GMT -5
A LOT of this post will be a work in progress. So please bear with me as I type what is in my head in this post. After 15 successful RPGs, and one storyline within those RPGs, it is time to rethink and retool what we can pull off with the RPGs. And with the Quest for an Iron Legend series being launched on Netflix, there may be an interest in the RPG. Here is MY proposal for a revival of the Iron Chef RPG. We start to the point where the Iron Chefs are introduced. In between Iron Chef Japan (both the classic and the 2012 revival) and Iron Chef America (and Quest for the Iron Legend), there are precisely 24 Iron Chefs. They are as follows: Mario Batali Cat Cora Bobby Flay Marc Forgione Jose Garces Alex Guarnaschelli Wolfgang Puck Michael Symon Geoffrey Zakarian Chen Kenichi Yutaka Ishinabe Hiroyuki Sakai Masahiko Kobe Roksaburo Michiba Koumei Nakamura Masaharu Morimoto Jun Kurogi Wuji Wakiya Yosuke Suga Curtis Stone Dominique Crenn Marcus Samuelsson Ming Tsai Gabriela Camara These are a lot of people that deserve the badge of Iron Chef. So, I thought of something. During the sign-up process, when someone requests the Iron Chef role, he DMs the Chairman who he is going to be when he resumes the Iron Chef role. So, it would be very likely for whoever is the challenger to take on an Iron Chef from a different era, and vice versa. But it doesn't really answer the question on how the Iron Chef is going to be introduced in the RPG. We do everything almost carbon copy from Quest from the Iron Legend. The chairman will introduce the challenger, tell a bit of the challenger's background, and then reveal who the Iron Chef is going to be. Then the secret ingredient will be revealed. And then things will proceed like ICJ with one exception. There will be a three-judge panel filled with rotating panel members that will help commentate the battle with Alton and Kristin. The Floor Reporting will be covered by Otha. Like the Iron Chefs, each judge can be from across all of Iron Chef's history. So, for each battle, we will need: 1 Challenger 1 Iron Chef 1 Alton (Unless Man Alive is willing to take this one permanently) 1 Kirstin 1 Otha 3 Judges
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jun 28, 2022 11:55:36 GMT -5
I would like to preface this by saying that this is my thoughts on the points system for Quest for the Iron Legend. We DID get a brief shot of the score card (Andrew's if I am not mistaken) during the final tasting on one of the episodes.
That said, let's break it down.
First the elephant in the room. 25 points to the first dish. If we took this to mean that 25 total points are to be rewarded on the first dish, that might seem like a lot on one plate, but if we break that down, it really isn't a lot.
First of all, as the Iron Chef TV show always tells us, points are to be rewarded for taste, presentation and use of the secret ingredient in each dish. If a dish doesn't taste as good, look good, or use the secret ingredient well, your boned.
Now there are three judges on that table. And if all of them can give a combined score on that first dish of 25 points, then that really breaks down to 8.3 points to do with as they wish. NO Chef earned a perfect score on their first dishes, but the chef that came closest to it, Ester Choi, only scored 23 points on her first dish. This means that out of 8.3 points per judge possible, she scored 7.6 per judge on average. Not a bad way to go, right?
It gets better. Of the 8.3 points per judge, they can reward up to 3 points (2.7) per the three factors that make up a good dish at the Gourmet Academy. So if we take the three factors and the fact that there are three judges at the table into account, that 25 points really becomes 2.7 points in the long term. That means that per judge, a single factor of the first dish is only worth 2.7 points.
Of the remaining 75 points, each judge can reward up to 25 points. With what I think is a 10-10-5 scale. This means that there are 10 points possible for taste and plating with 5 going into the use of the secret ingredient.
Disagree with me? Sound off in the replies and let's debate it.
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jun 28, 2022 5:43:59 GMT -5
I use discord everyday. It is a job requirement for me as a content creator. I would like to formally invite you fans of Iron Chef to the first ever discord for Iron Chef Fans. This is modeled a lot after the forums, so navigation should be easy. It's a work in Progress, but it is ready for prime time. Mention your forum profile in the discord's introduction channel and get a special role for you. discord.gg/7ABy9DsFyx
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jun 28, 2022 5:19:38 GMT -5
I actually quite enjoyed it, and here's why: PROS: - The diversity of the challengers' and Iron Chefs' backgrounds introduced me to many different dishes that I had never encountered before, and it was a valuable educational experience as a result. The tastes of American diners have changed so much in the last 20 years that it has been interesting to see what's come out since the original ICA series debuted.
- Alton and Kristen have great chemistry as the commentators. The commentary is tastefully done and feels more spontaneous than that of Iron Chef America.
- For certain episodes, I appreciated that they had some judges that did not have a professional culinary background (though this wasn't always the case).
- I appreciated having more of an actual story to the series (the Chairman searching for an Iron Legend), and getting more background on the challengers.
- Heck, having the Chairman there at all was a great touch.
- Sure, you had some recognizable names as the Iron Chefs (Stone, Tsai) but I appreciated that there were some names amongst the Iron Chefs that we hadn't heard from before (Camara).
CONS: - I don't like how much the first course is weighted. I understand the value of a first impression, but I don't think it warrants a full 25% of the score.
- For that matter, the scoring system was rather confusing and never fully explained. How were the points distributed? Because the score didn't seem to indicate that it was 100 points from each judge, but they made it sound like each judge had 100 points to give.
- I don't understand the logic behind not having the Chairman at the judging table.
- The theme ingredient presentation, while having a lot more theatrical value, made it rather confusing for the viewer what the actual ingredient was.
- Was there really a need to have an Iron Chef tag match?
Does it stand up to the original? No, and I think it's unrealistic to hope that it would. Is it better than ICA? I think so, and that's saying something considering ICA ran for 12 years.
Okay, one question, before I put my foot in my mouth, was the episodes with the challenger always required 5 dishes?
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Post by Sanji Himura on Feb 1, 2016 19:49:10 GMT -5
The three-starred Michellin Chef, Benoit Violier, was found dead late Saturday afternoon at his home in Switzerland from an apparent suicide. Violier, who headed the De L'Hotel De Ville Crissier-Suisse, was recently ranked by "La Liste" as the world's best restaurant this past year. Violier, who claims Swiss citizenship, was born in France in 1971, and later moved to Paris to train under the legendary Joel Robuchon, Benoit Guichard among others. Violier moved to Switzerland in 1996 to work under Philippe Rochat at De L'Hotel De Ville Crissier-Suisse. Upon Rochat's retirement in 2012, he ascended to head chef. He applied and was granted Swiss citizenship two years later. He specialized in cooking game. The local authorities will not make any comments out of respect of the family. Source
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jan 23, 2016 9:59:52 GMT -5
Hello Food fans,
Doc Himura here with a very interesting proposal for you all this fine day, regardless of your time zone. If you know me through facebook, you will know that I am not very fond of a camera, but I am starting to change that.
In the next month, give or take a few days, I am making my way to Austin, TX for a day of relaxing games, a working vacation if you can call it that. I also would like to review one restaurant in the immediate vicinity so that I can continue to call myself a food critic. I will be armed with a cell phone, so any footage that I do take, it will be poor in quality.
Finances? As things stand now, I have $45 on my person for the trip down there, and most of it will be for fuel and hotel for the night, however I do have the potential to earn more.
I will be at this address for most of my day, and thus, please localize my search to this area.
2438 West Anderson Lane Austin, TX 78757
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Post by Sanji Himura on Apr 2, 2015 15:26:41 GMT -5
Today, I was taking a browse through Netflix, and I noticed something peculiar. Outside Netflix getting a second season of Good Eats (It's sort of irrelevant), I also noticed that the streaming service has obtained the first whack of Iron Chef America for everyone to view online. Netflix is packaging the ICA episodes into 25 episode seasons.
What battles are in the first season, you might wonder? Here is a full list pulled from the service itself:
1. Flay vs. Stone 2. Morimoto vs. Zakarian 3. Symon vs. Mendelsohn 4. Cora vs. Kostow 5. Cora vs. Miranda 6. Symon vs. Goldman (I suspect that this Goldman is Duff Goldman of 'Ace of Cakes' fame) 7. Flay vs. Stein 8. Garces vs. Solomonov 9. Symon vs. Izard 10. Team Flay vs. Team Morimoto 11. Zakarian vs. Sawyer 12. Garces vs. Weitzman 13. Morimoto vs. Forgione 14. Garces vs. Forgione 15. Zakarian vs. Guarnaschelli 16. Garces vs. Morimoto 17. Zakarian vs. Symon 18. Flay vs. Voltaggio 19. Tournament of Champions Finals 20. Forgione vs. Kittichai 21. Guarnaschelli vs. Kalt 22. Zakarian vs. Chiarello 23. "Grill Masters" 24. "Ultimate Bar Food" 25. "Military Grill Battle"
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jan 30, 2014 16:40:10 GMT -5
Sorry, but I can't help it. It's funny.
Has there been any word from MA about this and what steps he has taken?
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jan 29, 2014 16:52:23 GMT -5
I tweeted the sad news to my followers yesterday after I found out.
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Post by Sanji Himura on Jan 29, 2014 16:46:55 GMT -5
Here is the irony of the situation though, I don't mind alcohol cooked in my food though for the precise reason that I can stay sober after consumption. However, if you serve me red wine that is supposed to be paired with a T-bone steak, for example, I won't touch the wine for the reasons that I have already illustrated in previous posts.
Of course, we should say all of that with the caveat that we don't know what actually goes on in the judging process of an episode, so they might be drinking ginger ale for all we know(since most episodes that I saw had the tasting panel drinking something "white"). Ginger ale is rather tasteless for a drink that has some flavor, but it is rather good for clearing out palettes. I know this for sure because I used to taste test sodas years ago, and they can be rather pungent some times. Every time they would approach me to do a test, I would spare a little change to buy a ginger ale.
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