Editing Iron Chef (section)

====''Iron Chef America''====
{{Main|Iron Chef America}}
{{see also|The Next Iron Chef}}

In 2004, Food Network announced that it would air an Iron Chef special, called "[[Iron Chef America]]: Battle of the Masters", featuring Sakai and Morimoto dueling with American Iron Chefs [[Bobby Flay]], [[Mario Batali]], and [[Wolfgang Puck]], all Food Network personalities and renowned American [[celebrity chef]]s. (Morimoto and Flay battled in two previous Iron Chef specials that were made after the original series aired.) The specials featured [[Alton Brown]] as the announcer and [[Mark Dacascos]] playing the role of The Chairman (in the storyline, this chairman is the nephew of Takeshi Kaga).

The show received high ratings and rave reviews and in October 2004, and Food Network began taping weekly episodes that premiered starting in January 2005.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}  Some changes were made to the show, most notably replacing Puck with Morimoto as an Iron Chef (a fourth Iron Chef, [[Cat Cora]], was added later), and the location was moved from [[Los Angeles]] to [[New York City]]. The fifth Iron Chef, [[Michael Symon]], was added after his win in ''[[The Next Iron Chef]]''. In 2009, Chef [[Jose Garces]] became the sixth Iron Chef following his own victory in the second season of that show. In 2010, Chef Marc Forgione won its third season, becoming the seventh Iron Chef on Iron Chef America.  Chef [[Geoffrey Zakarian]] won that show's fourth season in 2011, making him the eighth Iron Chef. In 2012, Chef [[Alexandra Guarnaschelli]], who had served as Sous Chef on Iron Chef episodes, became the ninth after winning the fifth season of ''The Next Iron Chef'', while Stephanie Izard became the tenth and final Iron Chef.

Even though both [[Todd English]] and [[Kerry Simon]] from ''Iron Chef USA'' competed on ''Iron Chef America'', the episodes did not mention their IC-USA appearances.