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"Our ultimate competition is with ourselves. That is what my uncle told me when I would visit him as a young boy... My uncle, the man the world knows as Kaga the Chairman, has decided that although America is a young country, we now possess the proper palate to host our own Iron Chef competition, an American celebration of the world's high art of cuisine." Recaps by Chico Alexander, GSNN FACT FILE: Host ("The Chairman"): Mark Dacascos Iron Chefs: Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Michael Symon Culinary Commentator: Alton Brown Kitchen Reporter: Kevin Brauch Creator: Keiichi Tanaka (based upon "Ryori no Tetsujin/Iron Chef") EP: Eytan Keller, Stephen Kroopnick, Stu Schreiberg Origin: Kitchen Stadium America, Food Network Studios, New York City Packager: Triage Entertainment and Fuji TV for Food Network Airs: Sundays at 10p ET on Food Network Website: foodnetwork.com/ironchef |
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Flay vs.
Freitag: Battle King Crab The challenger: Amanda Freitag, who was encouraged by her home-ec teacher to enter the culinary field. She started as a bus-girl, and upon graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, she interned at various eateries in the New York area before being called to head up the kitchen at the Harrison in New York's Greenwich Village. The chef will draw knives against her fellow New Yorker... Iron Chef Bobby Flay. Prepare for battle. The Crib Sheet:
The Theme Ingredient:
Alaskan king crab. Another interesting story... An original sous-chef has had to bow out for Freitag, so Justin is in... but the thing about Justin... he's allergic to crab. Over time... he took his gloves off. Really? "Fifteen minutes have elapsed." The Iron Chef has cracked crab, while filleting Alaskan salmon and making gravy. The challenger has been breaking down veal for stuffed chops while a pasta dough continues to mix. Over the break, Flay has been prepping ginger, while Freitag has been pouring maple syrup on Canadian bacon (which is more of a loin than a belly and thus is leaner than American bacon) and adding lemon-lime juice into an avocado mixture. Tonight's Judges: And Freitag is working some chilies, because, and now I'm quoting here, "If you're going to challenge Bobby Flay, you gotta have chilies, right?" "Thirty minutes have elapsed." Flay has been working with both coconuts and coconut milk. He's also working on chili oil and crab cakes. Freitag is countering with pasta, stuffed veal, and fennel. Flay is also hollowing out cucumbers and cooking rice in crab broth. Now he shucks oysters and making friends with a crawfish. Freitag has grabbed crab cookie cutters and is working puff pastry. Meanwhile, plates are coming. And Bobby Flay... has made TWO trips to the pantry, and both times he's forgotten why he was there. "Fifteen minutes to go." Freitag, who's been playing all battle long, is starting to get her serious face on as she and her team struggle to start a dish all over again late in the battle. Flay, meanwhile, has crab cakes ready with a poach in pinot noir and a seafood gumbo. Freitag has a crab salad with avocado mousse, asparagus, and an emulsion of sorts. Flay also has okra frying, hazelnuts chopping, and crab cakes plating. Meanwhile the challenger is giving her spaghetti a toss and working a clam chowder, while Justin is making more crab to replace a dish... a crab pancake. An egg poached in pinot noir joins Flay's crab cake. Freitag's pancake's done. On top, Canadian bacon, crab, and a poached egg. Flay also has seafood gumbo with crab rice. Freitag puts her veal chop on top of asparagus with béarnaise. Flay also has fried green tomatoes, while Freitag is topping her spaghetti with toasted panko. Tomato on Flay's side will join a crab salad. Freitag has crab chowder with the cookie. Flay's coconut is serving as a bowl for a soup of sorts. His salmon is now on a plate with a hot vinaigrette. And Amanda Freitag... is done with the salad, the chowder, the spaghetti, the veal, and the pancake. "One minute to go." And Bobby Flay is not done yet! He's got the salmon, the fried green tomato, the gumbo, the crabcake, and the wild mushroom curry. "Five seconds... three...
two... one..." Okra down in time. Battle King Crab...
done.
... 50-49 in favor of
Iron Chef Bobby Flay. Taste wins this battle by a razor
thin margin of one! But props to the challenger as
Amanda Freitag has proven herself to be one not to take
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