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Each episode presents a culinary battle between two chefs in "Kitchen Stadium". A contestant, usually a famous chef from Japan or elsewhere, is pitted against one of the show's four "Iron Chefs". Each of the Iron Chefs is an expert in a different cuisine, either Japanese, Chinese, French, or Italian. The chefs have one hour to complete their dishes. At the end of the hour, a panel of Japanese celebrities tastes and rates the dishes and crowns a victor.

The flamboyant host, Takeshi Kaga (鹿賀丈史) (known on the show as Chairman Kaga), and extravagant production values, contrasted with curiously pedestrian voice-over narration and polite but generally insipid commentary from the judges, not all of whom are food professionals ("This is really very good"), contribute to the eccentric style of the show.

Almost all battles require the opponents to cook a multicourse meal in which a special theme ingredient plays a starring role. The winner is said to be the chef who best expresses the unique qualities of the theme ingredient. Many theme ingredients reflect the Japanese nature of the show, for example, River Eel, Tofu, udon, and others. Ingredients more familiar in the west, like green peppers, summer cornSweetcorn (or sweet corn, also known as sugar corn , is a hybridized variety of maize Zea mays , specifically bred to increase the sugar content. Sweetcorn is commonly known as simply corn in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The fruit of the swee, or peachThis article is about the fruit; For alternate uses, see Peach (disambiguation). The peach is a tree, Prunus persica and the juicy fruit that it bears, which has a single large seed encased in hard wood (called the pit or stone , yellow or whitish flesh,es are commonly spotlighted as well. Featured ingredients tend toward the exotic and expensive.

Originally, the panel consisted of three judges, and contained preliminary battles for challengers to earn the right to face an Iron Chef. Later, the panel expanded to four. Since ties were now possible, each judge scored each chef's dishes on a 20-point scale. If the judges were deadlocked 2–2, the first tiebreaker was total points. If the point total was also level, the chefs would immediately begin an overtime period, with a new theme ingredient and only 30 minutes to complete their dishes. The overtime aired as a separate episode. On one occasion, the judges deadlocked 2–2 and on points after the overtime; the host Takeshi Kaga then declared both the Iron Chef and his challenger as winners.

1 List of Iron Chefs

These are the Iron Chefs who have appeared on the show (some have retired and have been replaced by successor iron chefs):

• Iron Chef Chinese Chen KenichiChen Kenichi (born 1956 in Tokyo, Japan) is the Iron Chef Chinese on the television series Iron Chef''. He wears a yellow outfit and holds a cleaver in his introduction. He is the only Iron Chef to hold his position throughout the life of the show. He is (陳建一)
• Iron Chef French (I) Yutake IshinabeJapanese TV Personality Yutake Ishinabe was the first French Chef in the Japanese cooking show Iron Chef appearing in the first episode in 1993, sporting a green outfit, while holding a bell pepper. Over the years he has earned himself the nickname of "Th (石鍋裕)
• Iron Chef French (II) Hiroyuki SakaiSakai Hiroyuki was born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1942. Sakai is most famous for being the second, and last, Iron Chef French on the Japanese television show Iron Chef first appearing at the beginning of 1994 (after Yutake Ishinabe retired) and continued (坂井宏行)
• Iron Chef Italian Masahiko KobeMasahiko Kobe (born 1969 in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan) is the only Italian Iron Chef, wearing the Italian Flag (Red, White, & Green) as his outfit and holding a tomato. He was first reviewed by Chairman Kaga to become an Iron Chef in 1994, but at the ti (神戸勝彦)
• Iron Chef Japanese (I) Rokusaburo MichibaBorn on January 3, 1931, Rokusaburo Michiba was the first Iron Chef. He appeared wearing blue attire while ascending into Kitchen Stadium. He is one of the best iron chefs in history, debuting in 1993 and retiring on January 3, 1996, being pressured to fi (道場六三郎)
• Iron Chef Japanese (II) Koumei Nakamura (中村孝明)
• Iron Chef Japanese (III) Masaharu MorimotoMorimoto Masaharu (born May 26, 1955 in Hiroshima, Japan) is a well-known Japanese chef, best-known as the third (and last) Iron Chef Japanese on the TV cooking show Iron Chef''. Morimoto's costume is silver with red trim and a picture on the back of Japa (森本正治)