Iron Chef America

i really love the show iron chef but have noticed that the iron chef always wins, due to the fact that 1 the judges know who cooks what, 2 the judges are always from the country of the iron chef; what should happen is that 1 the judges dont see the chefs cook the dishes and 2 there should be a judge from the iron chefs country a judge from the challengers country and an independant country judge as i think a lot of the episodes i have seen are always biased towards the iron chef.

I dont know whats going on with the programming of this once great channel but it has become absolutely shocking!!! Time to 'chop' my package perhaps..... C'mon Lifestle Food, what's going on!!!!?

What has happened to Iron Chef America?????? C'mon Lifestyle Food - this was one of the BEST shows you guys had on!!! Without ICA it's just NOT RIGHT, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!! You just teased us with The Next Iron Chef and then don't even show the new series with him in it, thats JUST NOT FAIR! Can you please advise when we can see more of this fantastic show???? Thanks.

I must be missing something. I loved the Japanese Iron Chef - bit quirky. Detest the American one - I don't see that it has anything to offer and can't understand why it is on - night after night after night. But then, I must remember that I am only one voice out in the world and others have a right to watch programs they enjoy.

Love this show! I would love an Australian one too :)

Mario Batali is my favourite Chef on this show. Love to watch Iron Chef America.

this is like my must see show every night. I dont have a fav chef cause they are all great. And it's amazing what they come up with, with diffrent ingrediant.

the original was ok but this show just has no appeal to me what so ever

i would to get some of the recipes for dishes i really like especially the episode with iron chef Symon using octopus, if the is any way of getting the would be great!!!!

Frankly I find the show to be an example of crass American consumerism with a total waste of large quantities of food. Totally irresponsible given our current economic climate. Even allowing for the total unreality of the show whcih does have some entertaining moments, albeit mainly contrived and so far from reality as to be laughable, I can't get past the wastage. Get rid of it! It promotes a profligate waste of food..............................

I would love to see a battle amongst the iron chefs with a secret ingredient that they would not be familiar with like kangooroo or emu...

I love this show, I would love to see an Iron Chef Australia as well, we do have great Chefs in Oz.

I think this show is on-the-edge-of-your-seat brilliant. Especially when they get some out there surprise ingredient like chickpeas or something that I'd find limiting. I LOVED when Bobby Flay cooked Green eggs and Ham and beat the swanky food the other guy did : )

I cant wait till 11am - 12pm everyday. The ingredients are always a surprise. These chefs are unreal

I think its a fantastic show they should have an interview with the winner and possably show us some top secrets to use in recepies that we can create ourselves and why dont we have an Iron Chef Australia we have great chefs to

Bobby Flay is definitely the best!

I am having an ongoing argument with my partner regarding the opening scene. I say that all 3 Iron Chefs are there... ( Strange how on the long shot you dont see the others ..Cat ).. She says they are cardboard cutouts as the facial expressions , and stance are the same for EVERY SHOW. ! And why DONT we see Cat or her large photo when the competitor walks down the ramp.

HELP ! Save the arguments someone PLEASE !

I have yet to see a challenger win, even though I would rather eat their dishes than the Iron Chefs, but I suppose thats America for you not liking to think out of the box. Maybe a challenger will win before I get to bored with it.

I really enjoy the American series they all seem to enjoy themselves, not to have to wait for the translation is really good.

Watched the original, just hope this one is just as fun, will just have to wait and see.

The original is so good, I only hope the new one has gone too american full on..... or episodes and we will be able to tell if it worthy of the name Iron Chef.....I agree with malibu, the dubbed commentary will be missed.

I like both the original version of Iron Chef and the American offshoot. It is entertaining innovative and the competitiveness appeals to me. It also gives me some ideas to cook up something new.

The only thing I will miss is the dubbed in commentary.

I am really looking forward to this one. I am a big fan of the original and even though the yanks sometimes stray too far from the original when creating their own version of overseas hits they seem to have stayed true to the Iron Chef formula from what I have seen of the previews. Can't wait to see Jamie with his faithful assistant Genaro doing battle in episode 1. I will reserve judgment on my fave until I have soaked up a few episodes and digested their individual culinary styles and personalities. So glad the I have Foxtel IQ so I can record the shows as I work in the evenings and can watch as soon as I get home.

I'd have to say Morimoto, because I love the original Japanese version of Iron Chef :)

Were so excited to have Iron Chef on the channel and are looking forward to many culinary battles between some amazing chefs! Who's your favourite iron chef?