Iron Chef is coming back! Iron Chef is coming back!

We don't mean to get too excited but ..Iron Chef is coming back! Iron Chef is coming back! 

This time the show returns in the form of Iron Chef Gauntlet, with none other than food guru Alton Brown at the helm. 

And people. are. pumped!

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If you've never bitten into a bell pepper vigorously then looked into the mist with a passionate, steely gaze, let us explain.

Iron Chef started as a Japanese cooking show in 1993 and its mix of melodrama, competition and food skyrocketed the program to worldwide fame. Its stateside adaptation Iron Chef America (not to be confused with the William Shatner-hosted, short-lived Iron Chef USA) lasted 11 seasons on The Food Network. (The show was put on hiatus in 2014 and has not yet returned to film new episodes.)  Read more...

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