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====''Iron Chef USA''====

Around Christmas 2001, the [[UPN]] network presented two one-hour episodes of ''[[Iron Chef USA]]'' hosted by [[William Shatner]] as "The Chairman of the American Culinary Academy".  Competition took place inside "Kitchen Arena" (built in Garden Arena in the Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel).  Commentary was provided by [[Michael Burger]] and [[Anthony Dias Blue]], with floor reporting by [[Sissy Biggers]].  The show featured four Iron Chefs: Iron Chef American [[Todd English]] (whose specialty is actually Mediterranean food), Iron Chef French Jean Francois Meteigner, Iron Chef Italian [[Alessandro Stratta]], and Iron Chef Asian [[Roy Yamaguchi]].  In the show's only two battles, English defeated [[Kerry Simon]] in a dungeness crab battle, and Stratta defeated [[Marcus Samuelsson]] in a turkey battle.

These shows were neither a critical nor popular success, perhaps because the show focused little on cooking&mdash;a major part of the Japanese program. The show had a small audience section with bleachers, and the audience yelled relentlessly during the show (sounding much like a sports audience). Shatner walked around the kitchen sampling the more expensive items, the chefs refused to say what they were doing, and the cameras rarely showed the food preparation.

====''Iron Chef America''====
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{{see also|The Next Iron Chef}}

In 2004, Food Network announced that it would air an Iron Chef special, called "[[Iron Chef America]]: Battle of the Masters", featuring Sakai and Morimoto dueling with American Iron Chefs [[Bobby Flay]], [[Mario Batali]], and [[Wolfgang Puck]], all Food Network personalities and renowned American [[celebrity chef]]s. (Morimoto and Flay battled in two previous Iron Chef specials that were made after the original series aired.) The specials featured [[Alton Brown]] as the announcer and [[Mark Dacascos]] playing the role of The Chairman (in the storyline, this chairman is the nephew of Takeshi Kaga).

The show received high ratings and rave reviews and in October 2004, and Food Network began taping weekly episodes that premiered starting in January 2005.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}  Some changes were made to the show, most notably replacing Puck with Morimoto as an Iron Chef (a fourth Iron Chef, [[Cat Cora]], was added later), and the location was moved from [[Los Angeles]] to [[New York City]]. The fifth Iron Chef, [[Michael Symon]], was added after his win in ''[[The Next Iron Chef]]''. In 2009, Chef [[Jose Garces]] became the sixth Iron Chef following his own victory in the second season of that show. In 2010, Chef Marc Forgione won its third season, becoming the seventh Iron Chef on Iron Chef America.  Chef [[Geoffrey Zakarian]] won that show's fourth season in 2011, making him the eighth Iron Chef. In 2012, Chef [[Alexandra Guarnaschelli]], who had served as Sous Chef on Iron Chef episodes, became the ninth after winning the fifth season of ''The Next Iron Chef'', while Stephanie Izard became the tenth and final Iron Chef.

Even though both [[Todd English]] and [[Kerry Simon]] from ''Iron Chef USA'' competed on ''Iron Chef America'', the episodes did not mention their IC-USA appearances.

====''Iron Chef Gauntlet''====
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''Iron Chef Gauntlet'' is a two-season reformat of ''Iron Chef America'' where seven chefs from around the country compete in an elimination contest, with the last chef remaining facing a "[[running the gauntlet|gauntlet]]" challenge of defeating three other Iron Chefs in order to earn the title. It aired from 2017 to 2018

====''Iron Chef Showdown''====
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''Iron Chef Showdown'' was a reimagining of ''America'' that also aired on Food Network for a single season of 10 episodes from 2017 to 2018.

====''Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend''====
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''Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend'' premiered on [[Netflix]] on June 15, 2022. Brown and Dacascos return to their respective roles, with Brown joined by [[Kristen Kish]] as co-host. There are eight episodes.<ref name="Netflix">{{cite web |last1=Rice |first1=Lynette |title=All New 'Iron Chef' Coming To Netflix In June; Alton Brown Returns As Host With Kristen Kish |url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/iron-chef-quest-netflix-alton-brown-1235014048/ |website=Deadline |access-date=May 3, 2022 |date=May 2, 2022}}</ref>