You obviously missed the great "Big Batlle Leftovers"
I surely did. Thanks for the link Why A Duck.
I prefer Mahngo myself.
Three things:
#1) It’s not keeping in IC tradition to use pre-made meal stuff like Chef Boy-Ar-Dee or Kraft Mac’n’cheese (in other words, franks-n-beans, out! Hot-Dogs, or beans, in). On the other hand nuthin’ wrong with “common” ingredients.
- The weirdest (and grossest) ingredients were, IMHO:
Honorable mention: Morimoto, in his early “Shock value is more important than taste” days made a glop of ketchup, spaghetti, some kind of inappropriate meat (tuna?) and served it on a hot dog bun.
Runner Up: Natto (a fermented bean thing. Imagine baked beans covered with marshmallow topping and left to sit out in the sun. I have no idea how it tastes, but it looks like Satan’s own Rice Crispy Treats from Hell.
First Prize: Soft Roe. From male fish. “Wha?” I thought “Male fish don’t have roe…roe is fish-eggs. Males don’t lay eggs, they have…urk. Fish sperm!” (this was confirmed elsewhere) It looked like blocks of yellowy-grey play-doh and, horror of horrors, one of the Iron Chefs made it into < gag retch > Fish Sperm Ice Cream.
< blatent plug >
#3) Ain’t gonna be any more SD Iron Chef without more judges. So pony up folks, if you’re interested, sign up here. I only just won my title as IC and as current SDMB Iron Chef, I say to you “Will my cuisine reign supreme? There’s only one way to know. Be a judge!”
current SDMB IC Fenris
Just a reminder to Iron Chef fans: Iron Chef USA is this Friday on UPN.
I was envisioning the use of pre-made meal stuff to build a bigger item. Not just a bowl of Man’n’cheese, but what can be blended with the mac’n’cheese to create something that transcends mac’n’cheese. Oh well - just a thought.
I’m willing to offer my opinions, but as I said above, I’m not much use when things like truffles or foia gras or caviar are used.
I’d really like to see the Vegemite battle someone mentioned. Gah!
Every time we watch the show my husband and I dream up battles with ingredients the chefs and judges don’t know, like moose or cactus. That would be fun.
Hog jowls.
Nutella.
Pickled pig’s feet.
Whatever the brand name is of the hottest hot pepper-based sauce ever created (I’d search for it, but I’m lazy.)
Ouzo.
Moonshine.
Elementary school cafeteria mystery meat.
I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
You all have seen this, right?
I’ve been threatening to inflict my own private version of an Iron Chef Battle Spam on some of my wife’s friends for a while now.
Personally, I’m kind of intrigued by the prospect of trying to make a viable dessert out of the stuff…
Blarg beat me to it - I missed Spam on my initial reading of the thread. Sorry…
Children would be very intersting.
The monkey brains would be cool but the monkeys start the show alive and the IC has to subdue them.
Why not dog?