The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs recap- Finale
The fourth season of The Next Iron Chef is underway and this season is the most stacked ever. We will be recapping each new episode until the new Iron Chef is crowned. Click subscribe at the top of the page to have each recap sent to your inbox.
Last week saw the chefs cooking at the Hamptons and also saw a double elimination of Chef Chiarello and Chef Guarnaschelli, setting up an interesting finale matchup between season long fan favorite Chef Elizabeth Falkner and, judging from the comments we've gotten all season long on our recaps, the show's most controversial contestant, Chef Geoffrey Zakarian. Chef Zakarian's constant skirting of the rules has gotten him the emnity of many Next Iron Chef viewers but his innovative flavors have wowed the Judges all season long.
This week, with only two chefs remaining, we get a good old fashioned hour-long Kitchen Stadium Iron Chef battle with the winner becoming the Next Iron Chef.
The show opens with host Alton Brown recapping the season and the path both chefs took to the finale. Zakarian with his flawless techniques and dangerous flirting with rules and Falkner with her bold approach that took the judges by surprise each week.
There's no nod yet to Washington, but Flay says a DC-themed burger is in the works and that he may ask the White House—where he has grilled with President Obama—to pitch ideas. Shakes come in such flavors as pomegranate-blueberry and Cola,
Bobby Flay enters the downtown DC burger fray with Bobby's Burger Palace, slated to open August 16 on K Street, Northwest. On the menu: a Napa Valley burger with goat cheese and Meyer-lemon-honey mustard; a Dallas burger with slaw, barbecue sauce,
The cakes, pies, muffins, and cannolis are all made in-house by Sonoski, with help from Chef Heather B. Norkin-Cahhala, who was recently executive pastry chef at Bobby Flay Steak. A slice of red velvet cake ($4.95) is enormous, three layers to be exact
I'd like to preface this section by saying that when I discuss barbecue, I'm talking a good old fashioned Weber charcoal grill, the pinnacle in flavor and mastery. Now barbecue master Bobby Flay might use a gas grill, and you can too, but I feel that
