Editing Iron Chef (section)

===Commentary and judging===
Throughout the cook-off, running commentary is made in a booth near the cooking area by an announcer, Kenji Fukui; a commentator, Yukio Hattori, and one or two of the guest judges, with one floor reporter (sometimes two; normally Shinichiro Ohta) providing details of the action on each side. The commentators and judges discuss the style of cooking, culinary traditions and unusual food preparation. At the end of the hour, after end-of-battle interviews with both competitors, each dish is presented to the camera, with a description of its properties (written by the show's screenwriters based on the chef's explanation) read by the announcer. Then, a panel of three (later expanded to four, and later still, five) judges, of which typically one is a professional critic, tastes the dishes and judges them based on taste, presentation, and originality.  Each chef may be awarded up to 20 points by each judge, with 10 given for taste and five each for presentation and originality.  The chef with the greatest score wins the competition. (In earlier four-judge episodes, the win went to the chef who won three of the four judges, or, failing that, the chef who makes the highest points total.)

Chairman Kaga tastes the dishes along with the judges.  While he occasionally makes comments and seeks input from judges during tasting, he generally does not participate in scoring; he did do so, however, during the ''2000th Dish'' Battle.  During this episode, a team of French cuisine chefs—captain [[Hiroyuki Sakai]], the original Iron Chef French Yutaka Ishinabe, and former challenger Etsuo Joh—battled a team of Chinese cuisine chefs composed of captain Chen Kenichi, former challenger Sozo Myamoto, and former challenger [[Yuji Wakiya]] (who would later be Iron Chef Chinese on the 2012 revival).  To break the tie, Chairman Kaga asked them to allow him this one instance of selfishness, and he cast his vote for the French team.