Iron Chef - Battle Chicken (3 of 5)

[domo774]

is this a battle or chicken or... trufffles?? lol..

[JohnnyCsaw]

Makes you appreciate how much the show has evolved from the early episodes where they leisurely prepare just 2 dishes each to the later ones where they scramble the entire time and finish 6 or more dishes.

I wonder if the taster's stomachs are still rumbling after the show?

[petejt]

@JohnnyCsaw yeah they definitely improved the show a lot after early days

[KamedaFamily]

Fail. the challenger has no chance to win already.

[sweetchunks22]

huh? who's ishinabe?

[mokshalovely]

@sweetchunks22 the first Iron Chef French :)

[pinkpastelhearts]

im not much for turkey on christmas, i prefer more like standing rib roast or chicken for that time.

[LordNelson87]

OVA!

[nya13]

only 1 dish done???hahaha  Man, the standards have changed later on...

[mekore]

wow ishinabe was very calm

[Akab6]

This is such a tame episode compared to later episodes.

[fakestestname]

Hmm.. a MOF winner only has two dishes? And one of the dishes has no chicken?

[nogdenw]

seems really odd to me too...and he cheated with his sauce placing.

[Toast3dSpagh3tti]

Keep in mind the battles back in 1993, when this was originally taped, were only 30 minutes. But anyone who made just one qualifying dish shouldn't really win even if he is a MOF winning chef.

[majanis607]

I like the way Ishinabe picked up the chicken with chopsticks.

[teleostomi]

haha, it's like a UFO catcher move.

[MarchinBandGuy]

I have been wanting to fix a standing rib roast fro Christamas for years. Add in some Yorkshire Pudding, and popovers, and you'd have a great Christmas Dinner!! I'd also like to try a roast Goose for a traditanal English Christmas Meal!

[TheDrunkenCelt]

what are popovers?

[KevinMcDunn]

You might be the first person in history who has actually wanted an English meal. =)

[loki096]

in other countries besides the u.s. that celebrate xmas, chicken is the holiday food, because alot of them dont have access to vast meat supplies, but chicken is aplenty.

[cloeda]

countries such as?

[tizzy0]

Japan apparently

[kalindoscopy]

do they know it's supposed to be a turkey...

[Ringmistress]

Well, to be fair, sometimes we have roast chicken at my house over Christmas, mainly because we just had turkey like three weeks before, haha.

[ilwa7shhh]

ya i was expecting goose or turkey, but in japan i guess its chicken! :)

[Takanezukami]

turkey for christmas is available in japan but mainly roast chicken, and kfc also common for poor people.

[ailinyim]

Yes. Turkey isn't synonymous with Christmas in the rest of the world. Just look at Western Europe.

[kalindoscopy]

we eat turkey for christmas in western europe. no idea what they do wherever you're from.

[ailinyim]

Is that so? Is turkey de rigeur for Christmas dinner in Finland? France? Italy?

[kalindoscopy]

finland isn't western, italy is mostly southern and in france, goose and now turkey are traditional. Actually, italians eat it to. So hush, you're a moron.

[Nocturnalux]

Mine is the most Western country in Europe, Portugal, and cod fish is the traditional dish for Christmas. Turkey comes second but it cannot possibly compare to how popular cod fish is. Then again it is something of a national pecularity, I think

[littlemsemily]

yeah, probably because chicken really doesn't take as that long to cook compared to like, lobster for example... anyways, does anyone know of an episode of Iron Chef where the challenger actually wins?

[rockeryumi]

the battle of the leong brothers i think it's the pork belly one. they go into overtime.

[rockeryumi]

both of them seem really cooled off and not worried.

[littlemsemily]

what the heck are these truffles that they're talking about??

[rockeryumi]

the black things that they cut up. it's a type of mushrooms that's pretty expensive

[ailinyim]

Rare and expensive mushrooms that are generally sniffed out by truffle hounds or truffle pigs

[misstee101]

Ishinabe is quite focused!