An Iron Chef Fans Diary, December, 2001

                

Saturday, December 1st, 2001
Main Ingredients: Natto

Cooking Style:  Japanese  
Iron Chef: Rokusaboro Michiba  Challenger: Ishikawa Kuniyuki

rerun of November 9th   
 

I'm opening the Burger King by myself each morning. That means I have to get up at 3:00 a.m.

in order to get there by 5:00 a.m. (I'm usually early). The first thing I do is make three pots of coffee. Some people will show up at 5 while I still have my coat on. I have to wear my coat to go into the freezer that is kept at 15 degrees. I have to haul all of the boxes of eggs, sausage, hash browns, french toast sticks, biscuits, cini-minis, bacon, and ham out and cook everything for breakfast. 

                  

Sunday, December 2nd, 2001
Main Ingredient: Ayu (Sweet fish)

Cooking Style: Japanese

Iron Chef: Masaharu Morimoto   Challenger: Miera Kenichi

                  

Friday, December 7th, 2001 The  Twelfth "New" Battle
Main Ingredient: Eggplant  
 Cooking Style:  Szechwan Chinese vs. Japanese   
 Iron Chef:  Chen Kenichi  Challenger:  Tabata Koichi

    
Saturday, December 8th, 2001
Main Ingredient: Ayu (Sweet fish) 

Cooking Style: Japanese 
Iron Chef: Rokusaboro Michiba   Challenger: Hanato Katsumi

A rerun from November 16th. 

 

Sunday, December 9th, 2001
Main Ingredient: New Potatoes

Cooking Style: Szechwan Chinese vs. Japanese 

Iron Chef: Chen Kenichi   Challenger: Kentaro

The first show I was able to see since moving and having to get up at 3:00 a.m.

The challenger was a young upstart food critic, the son of a woman chef who had beaten Chen.

Chen made potato butterflies and flowers soaked in wine, and beat the kid easily.

 

Friday, December 14th, 2001 The Thirteenth "New" Battle
Main Ingredient: Tuna   
 Cooking Style: Japanese   
 Iron Chef:  Rokusaboro Michiba    Challenger: Mera Takashi 

    
Saturday, December 15th, 2001
Main Ingredient: Sea Urchin

Cooking Style: Japanese  
Iron Chef: Hiroyuki Sakai    Challenger: Wakiya Yuji

 

Sunday, December 16th, 2001
Main Ingredient: Kamo Eggplant 

Cooking Style:  Italian vs. Japanese 

Iron Chef: Masahiko Kobe    Challenger: Sasajima Yashiro

 

Monday, December 17th, 2001

The computers are up, but a lot of the STUFF is still in boxes.

 

Wednesday, December 19th, 2001

At McDonald's the cases of frozen fries say SALT THE FRIES  in big letters on all six sides of the box. They are supposed to be liberally salted in an "M" pattern. At Burger King, you have  a choice of fries or onion rings. My sous chefs were surprised that I kept insisting that they put salt on the French fries.
 Then Corporate BK issued the edict "salt the fries in an "M" pattern". I replied, gee guys, shouldn't you make that a "W"  pattern (for Whopper) so it isn't a direct copy of Big M's manual ?

 

Thursday, December 20th, 2001

I finally updated the website again. It's been more than a month

Finally things are getting settled and we are preparing to do Battle Homard

tomorrow night. I've missed most of the shows since the middle of November

and missed Iron Chef USA on November 16th, but I've talked to Bill Collins,

Iron Chef Tennessee, and sometime soon we'll get together and watch it.
 
 Friday, December 21st, 2001 The  Fourteenth "New" Battle
Main Ingredient: Homard (a true Lobster having two claws, as opposed to rock or spiny lobster which

are really large members of the crawfish family. Mainly an ingredient in expensive French cuisine.)   
 Cooking Style: Szechwan Chinese vs. Japanese  
 Iron Chef: Chen Kenichi   Challenger:  Tadaaki Shimizu

    
Saturday, December 22nd, 2001
Main Ingredient: Milk

Cooking Style:  Szechwan Chinese vs. Japanese
Iron Chef: Chen Kenichi   Challenger: Miyamoto Masahiko

I think Chen made a kind of mozzarella by warming the milk up to about 90 F. and adding vinegar to get the curd to coagulate. He may have used rice vinegar because I think it is milder than cider vinegar. I've seen this done on an Italian cooking show, I think it was Molto Mario.

 

Sunday, December 23th, 2001
Main Ingredient: Tofu

Cooking Style:  Japanese

Iron Chef: Masaharu Morimoto   Challenger: Yoshida Takaji

 

Wednesday, December 26th, 2001 The Second Iron Chef USA Battle
Main Ingredient:   
 Cooking Style:   
 Iron Chef:    Challenger: 

 

Friday, December 28th, 2001 The Fifteenth "New" Battle
Main Ingredient: Sea Bass   
 Cooking Style:   Szechwan Chinese and Japanese vs. Japanese
 Iron Chefs: Chen Kenichi and Rokusaboro Michiba   Challengers:  Jules Bruant and Masashi Furutaka

 

Saturday, December 29nd, 2001
Main Ingredient: Milk

Cooking Style:  Szechwan Chinese vs. Japanese
Iron Chef: Chen Kenichi   Challenger: Miyamoto Masahiko

 

Sunday, December 23th, 2001
Main Ingredient: Tofu

Cooking Style:  Japanese

Iron Chef: Masaharu Morimoto   Challenger: Yoshida Takaji

 

 

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