From the heart-stopping competition show Iron Chef comes Iron Chef Gauntlet. Seven chefs battle it out for the opportunity to make it to the final, where they must defeat the three Iron Chefs in order to win the title.
Nose-to-tail challenge
Chairman Alton Brown serves up the weekly challenges, beginning with an array of wild ingredients before going the whole hog in a nose-to-tail challenge, and testing adaptability with sweet and savoury dishes. With renowned guest judges such as Geoffrey Zakarian, Marc Forgione and Giada De Laurentiis, there’s no room for the competitors to be less than amazing if they want to get their shot on Iron Chef Gauntlet.
Chef Dady: Fennel
I am a big fan of fennel. I think it’s extremely versatile. You can do a lot with it and a lot of different techniques. It can be sweet or savory, so to me it’s the underlying flavor — onion and fennel go in every dish I do almost, so I think that Battle Fennel would be pretty interesting.
Chef Sawyer: Artichokes or Offal
I feel like those two things I have an extreme advantage on. No. 1, I just understand offal meat probably better than anybody else — definitely better than anybody else in this competition but mostly better than anyone else in the country. Spleens and livers and gonads and lungs and everything. It’s those off-cuts that we really embrace, because they’re affordable. Artichokes, that’s just kind of therapy for me.
Chef Gulotta: Lime Leaf
If they took the altar up and it was lime leaf, then I think I could have a lot of fun with that, because I use lime leaf in everything that I do in my restaurants. Could be something different tomorrow, but today we’ll say lime leaf.
Chef Arrington: Bone-In Rib Eye
You can do so many things with it. Take the bones off and make a killer broth or stock or sauce. Take the eye, do something with that. I think that’d be a fun ingredient.
Chef Gruenberg: Eggs
I feel like eggs would be really challenging but also so versatile that you could really do a lot of things with them.
Chef Nakajima: Some Kind of Dry Fish
Seafood’s my strength.
Chef Izard: Goat
Although that would be really hard in an hour depending on what parts they give us.
What: Iron Chef Gauntlet S1 – Season 1
Where: Food Network, Channel 175
Time: Wednesdays from 17 January, 2018 at 9pm CAT
DStv Iron Chef Gauntlet S1 Episodes: 6 episodes, 60 minutes each
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