the best cooking show i've seen. the variety of the ingredients was great. sometimes it would be something we didn't eat normally in america. the iron chefs were very talented and full of personality as was the eccentric chairman who created it. i miss it.

In some of the older episodes, the woman commentator is placed in the center and the logo is behind her head appearing to give her a set of antlers.

This series is camp at its best, with some very tantalizing dishes from my perspective.

Theatricks at its best! Espcecialy the original show from Japan. I get a kick out of the Japanese actress who gaucks at the dishes,saying WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Shes funny.
A very enertaining show.

The original is better.

I am a fan of the Iron Chef program. It is really amazing what the Chefs can cook up with the secret ingredient in one hour. I watch it every night when it comes on. The Chefs work very fast when they are cooking, but they get in done when they are suppose to. Some of the food they cook I have eaten it before and some of it I haven't. I hope some day I could meet one of the Iron Chefs. Among the Iron Chefs I can say they are all my favorites. Keep of the good work Iron Chef you are doing a great job.

I love this show. It's one thing to learn how to cook, but this show is for pure entertainment and sort of gives you an idea what goes on in the kitchen of the 5 star restaurants.

This was a great show, even better than Iron Chef America!

Anyone saying the food on Iron chef is disgusting should try to learn what the culinary culture is like outside the US. Most countries laugh at the poor food culture we have in this country. Has anyone rating this show ever taste foie gras or truffles? Try something other than hamburgers and pizzas for a change.

I've always loved this show. From the moment I first saw it I praised it for it's originality and charming goofiness. Sure, it's showy and the food is eccentric and over-the- top, but that's the whole point. It's a competition. You surely can't expect them to cook up Mac n' Cheese. And how can you not love the Chairman? My only complaint is that the dubbing is pretty painful. Namely the judges. It's good that they at least decided to keep Kaga subtitled.

this is the best cooking show ever. its entertaining. i love everything about the show. the iron chefs are truly amazing in their skills. im sorry that it ended. it made me so sad. iron chef america is nowhere near the original. the iron chefs from that show act more tempermental and full of theirselves then they show in skill. bobby flay used to be one of my favorite chefs. he was ypung interesting,talented,nice smile,and was a pleasure to watch. now all this success has made his head swell. he shows no patience, acts like he is above everybody else and seems genuinly angry at times

Iron Chef rocks!!! Okay, sometimes the dubbing gets just a little annoying, but still. I love how serious these people take it. It's like life or death. The stuff they make always makes me hungry, even if they use nasty stuff that I hate like mushrooms. Iron Chef America is cool too, because they use normal food like potato and there's no dubbing. Iron Chef rocks my socks.

This is the coolest cooking show ever made! They take 3 (sometimes 4) Iron chefs, and a challenger comes & chooses 1 Iron Chef to battle against. They have 1 hour to make a full meal, including deserts (usually) with the main ingredient. It's Japanese so the ingredients are often very entertaing to see being used. The meals look mouth-watering. Even my kids love this show. If you want a cooking show where you can write down the ingredients & cook it later, watch a different show. If you want an entertaining cooking show, that's a great & original concept, watch the Iron Chef... not to be mistaken with Iron Chef America which sucks!!! And really, it's not that the food is disgusting (as so many close-minded people say), it's that the Japanese palate is so different from ours. Many foods we eat they may find disgusting... and if the average American (or any other nationality) were raised in Japan with their diet, that American would love that food because they were raised eating it. I would try their food because they're such extraordinary chefs. If they can win as many battles as they do, they must be making some good food. But then, I like to try new things. Many people like to stick with the same-old same-old.

I got tired of this quick. It became annoying.

The only thing missing is Chow Yun Fat;one of the best shows,ever-even if it's fixed.

This tv show is infinitely boring though it is loud and showy. I can't seem to make it through more than five minutes without losing interest. The foods are too odd, the chefs are too odd. There is no humanity to the show at all.

For awhile, it was standard Friday night fare for me (and I hate cooking shows). I tuned in because the show was funny in the same way that MXC is funny; the dubbing is hilarious. Some of the dishes prepared by the chefs prove that American palates and Japanese palates are very different. Iron Chef always had a skeletally thin actress as one of the guest judges. Thought up a Haiku for her: Lady judge nibbles (5); It tastes so good in my mouth (7); She pukes once backstage (5)

funnny show its mad good~!!!!!

I have to say I hate this show it is so phoney it is unbelievable. I can not see how the average american viewer can watch this as some of the dishes are so bizzare.

This show is pure entertainment, I love it, but there is no way in hell I would eat any of the weird dishes the chefs ever cook.

Certainly a unique concept. Are they for real - so serious. A tongue in cheek cooking show, and entertaining.

The food always looks delicious, the competition is always fierce, and the campy Japanese effect adds in unintentional comedy.

Great show, learned a lot while being entertained. I may unusual in that I LOVE FoodTV, but don't watch Emeril Live. I much prefer the Shows Like Taste, Food 911, a Cook's Tour, Molto Mario, and especially Good Eats. Quietman

I love this show so much. I am a big sushi fan myself and the show is just so entertaining to watch. Can you go wrong with Japanese women saying," The flavor is so happy in my mouth"? The dishes do not look disgusting at all.

great fun

the most boring cooking show I've ever tried to watch. it seemed pointless to me.

I love watching this show, it's incredibly funny! The voice overs are hilarious! I love how seriously they talk about the contest, as if it were a sport, and by the way those cooks run around, it practically IS a sport! The dishes are a little odd (but, then again, so is the show, and I guess I couldn't think up anything better on-the-spot, either). It's very imaginative, and though it's not for everyone, it's something that's worth watching at least once.

What's not to love? Japanese drama and love for competition aimed at the kitchen! Actresses who taste weird food and proclaim " It makes my mouth so happy!" Chairman Kaga dressed in $10,000 costumes presiding over his tasters, whose regular jobs are as photographers, politicians, professional sports figures, actors, astrologers, and sometimes even a food critic. I'll never try to prepare any of the dishes I see, but I have to watch this every week, just the same.

Don't know why, but I always enjoy watching this show.

The ending with the judges is fun, but the dishes look disgusting, and the ingrediants don't sound right. Subtitles occasionally hard to follow.

I like this show. All the other cooking shows are carefully planned and edited so that what airs is perfect. I mean by that, what airs are dishes that work, the cake never flops and the rice never sticks. Not exactly the way it works in real life. The Iron Chef is a contest show. Each week a challenger comes on the show and picks the Iron Chef he wants to compete against. The Iron Chefs, four of them, each have their own style of cooking; Chinese, Japanese, French and Italian. After the choice is made the Iron Chef and the challenger take their places in Kitchen Stadium, which is two identical kitchens set side by side. Then they are told the secret ingredient that they must use in each dish they prepare. Sometimes it is a fruit or vegetable, sometimes a meat, and sometimes it is alive. Then they have one hour to prepare as many dishes based on the theme ingredient. At the end of the hour the food is tasted and judged by a panel of experts, and a winner is chosen. These guys cook under a great deal of pressure. Their skills and abilities are amazing. Sometimes the dishes work, and sometimes the judges say it tastes terible. Either way, we see the results.

An entertaining cooking show. The dishes usually look disgusting, but thats the appeal.