The Next Iron Chef: how much can you gross us out?

[Pajangle]

Hmmm, I didn't gross out at any of those food offerings either. I guess it's just my cast iron stomach! I'm not convinced the offal challenge is particularly compelling though since it's sorta been done to death on all of the cooking shows of late. The judging, however, is totally cracking me up right now! Jeffrey Steingarten is so miserable and he spends so much of the time judging the OTHER JUDGES! Cripe, he needs to give that schtick a rest. Anyhow, I'm rooting for Amanda Freitag.

[MiseEnPlace]

I'm just so glad he gets to eat during NIC - he always sounds so forlorn during Iron Chef! lol

AB makes a big deal out of not eating in ICA, but it is by choice. He got sick after eating the dishes during the ICA: Battle of the Masters because one of the Japanese chefs used oyster sauce and he didn't know it was in there. He stays away from the food, at least that was his answer when someone asked him about it in Nashville.


I agree, Jeffery's judging the judges is getting old fast!

[Gabriel Miller]

Guess I was the only one the unlaid eggs didn't gross out. Unlaid eggs are nothing but the yolk of the egg without the white and the shell. I've seen plenty of them in my younger years on the farm dressing out chickens.

As for the chef that got the grasshoppers, I kept telling him to roast them and use them like nuts in a dish. Well, he got the roasting part and then blew it by just using them as a "topper" in his dish. And, yep... I've had roasted grasshoppers.

Seeing them is one thing. You didnt mention how often you brought them in the house for Ma to cook up for breakfast.

[Pluff Mudder]

Seeing them is one thing. You didnt mention how often you brought them in the house for Ma to cook up for breakfast.

There was no need too. We had over 10,000 layer hens (wholesale egg business) so there was no need to eat unlaid eggs.

[BerryBaby]

Fortunately, I didn't watch this. An egg should just be an egg that you buy in a container, in the dairy case. If it is anything else, it shouldn't be a full, blown event for all to see.

Come on....is this really what Food Network wants us to see and remember? I doubt it.

We can all turn the channel (which many of us do). This surely isn't a ratings getter.

[Pluff Mudder]

Working with offal and odd foods seems to be "the thing" right now... especially on TV. They've done it on ICA and on Top Chef and Top Chef Masters.

There are many groups of people who do use the entire animal after butchering. For instant, the Native Americans have and still do it with the bison and Southerns with the pig... we like to say we eat all of the pig except the oink. And chicken feet and necks are found in the meat counter in our local grocery stores right next to the rest of the chicken. Many cultures think it's a sin to waste part of a animal after it has given it's life for you.

To me working with a unlaid egg (it just the yolk with no white or shell) is no different then working with yolks that you have separated from the white. It just a egg yolk that's not in it's pretty little package. And yes... if I had to opportunity to use some, I would.


They look a lot a like.... don't they?

[BerryBaby]

Well, I guess it isn't all that bad. I was imagining something else.

You won't find any variety meat parts in butcher cases out here. Pretty much the standard whole chicken, breasts, legs/thighs. I recall seeing liver and hearts (beef) when we lived in the midwest, but not out here. Guess you have to ask for them.

Different traditions throughout the country.

[Cookie Pusher]

I love going into my Chinese market. You can find darn near any part of any animal in the butcher case. And if they don't have it, they can order it!

[BerryBaby]

After reading your comment, I guess we do have a number of Asian markets here that do carry various parts. I rarely go to them, I stick mostly with Winco, Whole Foods.

[isilzha]

That photo of the unlaid eggs doesn't have the fallopian tubes still attached like on the show. I still think its gross, I won't be watching that rerun for sure.