Iron Chef America – Battle Frozen Pea
01 17 2007So, last night I got around to watching Iron Chef America, battle Frozen Pea. It was, as most other episodes, entertaining, but was just a little odd.
The first thing I noticed is that Iron Chef Bobby Flay was missing from the battle. I mean seriously, how can you have a Iron Chef America without Bobby Flay?! Mario Batali took up the slack though, so it was entertaining enough. I enjoy how Batali converses with Alton Brown though – he does a great job at competing and enriching the viewer’s minds by letting us in on all those crazy Italian words he has a tendency to use.
The battle was against a chef named Morou – and unfortunately I can’t remember his cuisine style. The good news is that this wasn’t a new battle – it’s been on the air before. Anyway, the challenger’s cuisine included pea filled fritters, and frozen pea and cream cheese pea-sicles. Apparently, they were tasty. I wouldn’t know because Iron Chef America hasn’t yet invited me to be a judge (just a note for when they do: I’m allergic to seafood, so it’ll have to be battle MEAT, no seafood allowed.)
I must say – this time the judges were all culinary critics or related to the food industry in some way. The unfortunate thing, though, is that one point in the battle, one of the female judges says something to the effect of “I can definitely taste the pea-ness in this dish”, which obviously completely and inadvertently sounded like penis. Well, what do you do, right?
Anyway, it was a good battle 
