I think it would be cool to see a 8 or 12 hour iron chef competition

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It's cool to watch them have to do their meals in one hour, but I think having one or two longer competitions would be pretty bitchin' - not that the episode needs to go on for that long, but to give the cooks a chance to do some longer cooking styles, braisings and stock making and reductions, and slow roasting or barbequing or what-have-you.

Give 'em a chance to really go to town with the fancy and complex.

That would be fun!

[Swede]

1. Today's secret ingredient: MACARONI

NT

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2. MINUTE RICE!

[Goblinmonger]

12. Shit, make it challenging: HoHos

[AngryAmish]

14. I love HoHos

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17. HoHos and pickling brine!

[ThomCat]

3. That would be SO cool.

I rarely turn on my TV, but when I do it's to look for the cartoon network or the food network. Iron Chef and Iron Chef America ROCK.

I would love to see 1.5 to 2 hour episodes showing 2 hour or longer competitions.

I'd also love to see Alton Brown compete!

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4. Yeah, I'd love to see what they could do with a whole day to cook!

Theme ingredient: Instant potatoes!

Seriously, though, yes, I'd love to see what they come up with with a full day to do some serious cooking.

Even two hours would be okay, but I'd rather see a minimum of 4, and really, I think 8 would be the true minimum. That would leave room for some baking of desserts, making of yeast breads, or chilling of a cheesecake, etc.

[ThomCat]

5. A REAL desert battle!

You're right about that. That would be great.

[LSdemocrat]

6. I think the Japanese show did something similar one time

I believe it was part of a Iron Chef tournament held in France. They had time to buy their ingredients locally, although I'm not sure if the time to cook was extended or not.

[AllegroRondo]

11. That was a great episode

the chefs had 24 hours to "buy, beg, or borrow" any ingredients they wanted to use, including the theme ingredient of lobster. But only 1 hour cooking time.

Sakai visited some Japanese chefs he knew in Paris to borrow many of the Asian ingredients he wanted, and made it back to the studio with only a few minutes to spare. Great episode.

[jmowreader]

7. Iron Chef Seattle would be seriously bitchin'

Take the two competitors to the front door of the Pike Place Market ten minutes before it opened. Hand each of them an envelope with 25 $20 bills in it. Tell them "dinner is served at 8pm, we have the menus from your restaurants, and if you cook anything that's on those menus you will be proclaimed the Tin Foil Chef and sentenced to boil hotdogs for a Dubya Bush fundraiser."

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8. Yes, that would be awesome!

Allow no pre-made anythings into the contest - if they want a chicken broth, they need to make it during the contest. And they have to do all their shopping during the contest, too, but i think we should allow them to do their shopping after they've seen the secret ingredient.

And they have to do a full meal, including dessert; though the number of courses is up to them.

And the secret ingredient should be something difficult, like a spice - saffron would make a frickin' amazing contest - or an herb, or a generic food like sour cream or corn meal, that will force their hand to be creative because it's something that only enhances food, and isn't used as a food itself. They can't make the secret anything main-course-able like lamb, potatoes, mushrooms, etc.

[jmowreader]

21. How about no secret ingredient?

The problem with the secret ingredient is you wind up with bizarre shit like trout ice cream--because the secret ingredient has to be in EVERYTHING they make. So get rid of the secret ingredient but restrict them to a certain amount of money, and see what they can do.

Or come up with a main-coursable secret ingredient, but only require them to use it in one dish. And still restrict them to a certain amount of money.

[matcom]

9. IRON CHEF CROCKPOT MARATHON!

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10. LOL!

Ten hours of silence, watching the iron chefs sit and read, maybe take a nap, do some scrapbooking or write in their journals, while the clock woman keeps counting down the fifteen minute intervals...

[matcom]

13. maybe i could pick up some Sudoku tips!

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[bridgit]

15. god please spare me 12hrs of grey-ass boiled eel...

x( perhaps a nice chateau briand for four :thumbsup:

[progmom]

16. .

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[bridgit]

20. .

:hi:

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18. Let's make it eel and natto, and pit the italian chefs against each other.

[bridgit]

19. now that would be a hootin-nanny alright...

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