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{{Short description|Japanese television cooking show}}
{{About|the Japanese cooking show|other versions}}
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{{Infobox television
| native_name              = {{Infobox name module|Japanese|料理の鉄人}}
| image                    = Iron Chef.JPG
| caption                  = The seven Iron Chefs and [[Takeshi Kaga|Chairman Kaga]] in Kitchen Stadium. Left to right: [[Hiroyuki Sakai|Sakai]], [[Yutaka Ishinabe|Ishinabe]], [[Masaharu Morimoto|Morimoto]], [[Rokusaburo Michiba|Michiba]], [[Chen Kenichi|Chen]], [[Koumei Nakamura|Nakamura]], [[Masahiko Kobe|Kobe]]
| genre                    = [[Cooking show]]
| creator                  = Fuji Creative Corporation
| presenter                = [[Takeshi Kaga]]<br/>[[Kenji Fukui]]<br/>[[Yukio Hattori]]<br/>[[Shinichirō Ōta]]
| narrated                 = [[Toshiyuki Makihara]]
| theme_music_composer     = [[Hans Zimmer]]
| opentheme                = "Show Me Your Firetruck"<br/>(score from ''[[Backdraft (film)|Backdraft]]'')
| composer                 = [[David Arnold]]<br/>[[Bruce Broughton]]<br/>[[Aaron Copland]]<br/>[[Randy Edelman]]<br/>[[Cliff Eidelman]]<br/>[[Jerry Goldsmith]]<br/>[[James Horner]]<br/>[[Yoko Kanno]]<br/>[[Dennis McCarthy (composer)|Dennis McCarthy]]<br/>[[Joel McNeely]]<br/>[[Michael Nyman]]<br/>[[Graeme Revell]]<br/>[[Toshihiko Sahashi]]<br/>[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]<br/>[[Tsutomu Ōhashi|Shōji Yamashiro]]<br/>Hans Zimmer
| editor                   = Masaaki Yamamoto
| director                 = Keiichi Tanaka
| producer                 = Kenichi Koga<br/>Toshihiko Matsuo
| country                  = Japan
| language                 = Japanese
| num_seasons              = 7
| num_episodes             = 295
| list_episodes            = List of Iron Chef episodes
| runtime                  = 30 minutes with commercials (October 1993-March 1994)<br />45 minutes with commercials (April 1994-September 1999)
| network                  = [[Fuji Television]]
| first_aired              = {{Start date|1993|10|10}}
| last_aired               = {{End date|1999|09|24}}
}}

{{Nihongo|'''''Iron Chef'''''|料理の鉄人|Ryōri no Tetsujin|literally "Iron People of Cooking"}} is a Japanese television [[cooking show]] produced by [[Fuji Television]]. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized [[cook-off]] featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although four occasional specials were produced from January 5, 2000, to January 2, 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the [[Food Network (Canada)|Food Network]] in Canada, the [[Cooking Channel]] in the United States until Asian-American specialty television channel ChimeTV took over reruns in 2022, and on [[Special Broadcasting Service]] in Australia; in the United States, it is streamed by [[Peacock TV]] and [[Pluto TV]].{{Clarify inline|reason=Are these the only possible streaming services?|date=November 2024}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Iron Chef|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/sales/programs/view/id/207/t/Iron-Chef|website=SBS Sales Home|publisher=SBS Australia|access-date=23 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082603/http://www.sbs.com.au/sales/programs/view/id/207/t/Iron-Chef |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> There are 5 spinoffs, with the latest being ''[[Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend]]''.

Fuji TV aired a new version of the show, titled {{nihongo|''Iron Chef''|アイアンシェフ|Aian Shefu}}, premiering on October 26, 2012.<ref name="newironchef">{{cite web|url=http://www.fujitv.co.jp/fujitv/news/pub_2012/121016-371.html|script-title=ja:1993年から約10年にわたり、料理の格闘番組として好評を博した『料理の鉄人』。新しい『アイアンシェフ』として凱旋上陸を果たす！！|author=Fuji Television|date=October 16, 2012|access-date=October 16, 2012|language=ja|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018002313/http://www.fujitv.co.jp/fujitv/news/pub_2012/121016-371.html|archive-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref>