The Best Iron Chefs Of All Time

Over 200 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Iron Chefs Of All Time

The best Iron Chefs really know their way around Kitchen Stadium. They take on challengers that offer up all types of exotic and wonderfully executed dishes, from the playful to the classic. You have masters like Chef Masaharu Morimoto who was both on the original Iron Chef as well as the popular Iron Chef America. Unfortunately you won't find Wolfgang Puck on the list because he only competed in the Battle of the Masters and retired as an Iron Chef immediately afterwards. With that being said, we still love to see him as a judge. There have been several reboots of the series, including Netflix's Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend which requires a challenger to face all five Iron Chefs in a final competition to win the Golden Knife and be deemed an Iron Legend. But which one of these masterful Chefs is the best Iron Chef to have competed in Kitchen Stadium? You can help decide with your votes.

Vote up your favorite Iron Chefs and vote down any that you think are not worthy of the title. Have fun voting and in the words of our Chairman, "Allez cuisine!"

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  • Masaharu Morimoto
    1
    179 votes
    • Birthplace: Hiroshima, Japan

    First Year As An Iron Chef: 1998

    Show: Iron Chef, Iron Chef America

    Cooking Style: Japanese fusion

  • Hiroyuki Sakai
    2

    Hiroyuki Sakai

    Age: 81
    115 votes
    • Birthplace: Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

    First Year As An Iron Chef: 1994

    Show: Iron Chef

    Cooking Style: French cuisine

  • Chen Kenichi
    3
    87 votes
    • Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan

    First Year As An Iron Chef: 1993

    Show: Iron Chef

    Cooking Style: General Chinese and Sichuan

  • Rokusaburo Michiba
    4
    63 votes
    • Birthplace: Kaga, Japan

    First Year As An Iron Chef: 1993

    Show: Iron Chef

    Cooking Style: Japanese cuisine

  • Bobby Flay
    5
    Age: 58
    170 votes
    • Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

    First Year As An Iron Chef: 2004

    Show: Iron Chef America

    Cooking Style: Southwest

  • Susur Lee
    6
    Age: 65
    71 votes
    • Birthplace: China, Hong Kong

    First Year As An Iron Chef: 2018

    Show: Iron Chef Canada

    Cooking Style: Fusion cuisine