Iron Chef Competition Round 2 Voting

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

It’s time again to vote here in Junkie Kitchen Stadium! The secret ingredient for this week was steak.
Voting guidelines:
- There are no individual matchups – it’s all-against-all. Please vote for your favorite
THREE
of the five entries.
- The three Junkies with the most votes for this round will move on to the next round.
- The polls will remain open for three days.
- Please vote for the food entries and not the person.
Please base your five votes on the following criteria:
- quality of presentation
- realism of the pictures (did the competitor actually cook this?)
- creativity or skill displayed
- incorporation of the secret ingredient
- degree to which the pictures make you hungry
Thanks for voting, and thanks to the competitors for their amazing entries! Again a very impressive showing.
*Note that the Seawalls are an official entry. They were included because one competitor missed the deadline.
** Please don’t vote or post until I have posted all entries!!**

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Scott 123
This is "Scotty's Surf n' Turf Extravaganza" I started with the best of the best of beef. Filet...It is charcoal grilled to a delicious med rare (-) It is accompanied by a Atlantic Lobster Tail cooked and "Fluffed" on the shell. Served with Clarified Butter and a Jasmin Rice with three pepper medley served with a honey mustard sauce...fresh corn on the cob and a Shrimp Cocktail appetizer.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Filipino
So this is a pepper-crusted lamb steak with porcini mushroom and wild mint sauce:
The photos - wild mint picked this morning; the mint, garden vegetables, and marinating shank steak; the steak - after crusting and before grilling; grilled steak; the dish w/out sauce (to show the "doneness"); completed meal with sauce.
The ingredients:
Marinade - red wine, rosemary, crushed kiwi
Veggies - Steamed baby Carrots, snow peas, and 'peaches and cream' corn, garlic whipped potato, shaped and baked into octagon
Steak and sauce - use coffee grinder or food processor to crush whole peppercorns, spread on a plate. Remove staek form marinade and roll in peppercorns, then use basting brush to remove excess. Grill at high heat, searing and turning frequently to taste.
Sauce - combine red wine, water, tablespoon of cooked rhubarb, about 2 doz. cranberries, dash of worcestershire, tsp. of sugar and a tsp. of honey. Simmer till it begins to thicken. Add .5 cup of porcini mushrooms and continue to simmer.
Dice 5-10 mint leaves and add to sauce within 5 minutes of meal completion.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

MCM
I don't work with recipes so I hope this is more informative than last time.
This is a 24oz Pepper Grilled New York Sirloin with Portabello Mushroom and Sweet Onion Au Jus. On the side, a Green Leaf and Arugula salad with White Balsamic Vinaigrette.
Start by rubbing the steak with a combination of fresh ground pepper, salt, onion powder, coriander, paprika, dried parsley, or a store bought steak rub. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside.
Then dice the mushroom and onion and saute them in two tablespoons of olive oil over med/high heat. When done, set aside in the pan and then add the steak juices after it's finished cooking. Slowly stir in the juices over med heat until it just starts to bubble. I like to poor mine over the steak but it's also good as a dipping sauce.
Next grill the steak. Mine was about 3/4" thick so I did around 6 min on each side at med/high heat.
Now make a salad. For the Vinaigrette, I used a White Wine Balsamic and added just a splash of olive oil and sea salt, along with some fresh ground pepper. If you try this at home, mix in some spicy mustard (I was out).
I didn't know if there were any none red meat eaters, so I grilled an extra Portabello just in case.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Rock Lobster
I did a little surf and turf. A nice rib eye grilled to perfection topped with some beautiful 21-25 count shrimp, pan fried in butter and lots of garlic, home made large cut fries and fresh veggies on the side.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Seawall and Seawall’s Wife
So Seawall and I made this together.
Scott123 provided us with the recipe, and it was very yum! I think he was wise in not making this for the challenge, although on taste alone it would of won.
PREPARE INGREDIENTS
COOK POTATOES AND GRAVY SET THEM ON BACK BURNER TO KEEP WARM
FRY MEAT - hahaha Seawalls job was to beat the meat! DUH!!!
Then throw it all together - BOOM CHICKEN FRIED STEAK

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

OK - that's it. Happy voting!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Andre3000
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Every single one looks amazing.
But........ CANADA REPRESENTS!!!!!!!!!!
Scott's entry sets off Round 2 BEAUTIFULLY!!!!!!
Filipino's Octagon is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And even though Rocklobster hates Toronto, I had to vote for him... love the presentation.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: MCM
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Nice job everyone. I was gonna go with Surf and Turf but wasn't about to pay $9 for a lobster. Scott123, your meal looks awesome. I feel like I've had too much steak lately but after looking at this thread I think I'm gonna half to cook some more up tonight.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Andre3000
Date: September 25, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

This is unbelievably impressive.... you guys all rock.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Seawall
Date: September 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

For the record, our dish was not entered into the contest until late last night. We just posted our pics "for fun", not so much for the "win". Believe me, if we had more notice that I was going to be included in the voting, we would have made something a bit more photogenic.
Scott, thanks for the recipe. It tasted great!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Archean_Life
Date: September 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Here's one of Rock Lobster's photos that I was missing. Sorry about that...nice looking ingredients!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: grapplethis
Date: September 25, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

as awesome as the entries all look, IMO it's quite clear that scotty and filipino are the class of the competition. filipino, scott and lobster got my votes, and not because they are canadian. ftr, by far my top vote was scott and he deserves to this round, even though filipino pwn'd everyoen with that presentation.
scott will sweep this and the music contest IMO. WAR JTT we're great at something!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: rocklobster
Date: September 25, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

I like Toronto.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Scott123
Date: September 25, 2009 at 02:25 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Nice job Filipino...ever see the opening credits for "Napolean Dynamite" Looks like one of those. Good job.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Scott123
Date: September 25, 2009 at 02:32 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

AL...You should give us the next ingredient now so we can do it over the weekend. That way people that are no longer in the contest can still participate if they want. Just gives us more time...no sense in waiting all week for something that is probably gonna be made on a weekend.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Captain_Howdy171
Date: September 25, 2009 at 02:37 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

the next main ingredient should be Haggis! LOL

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: filipino
Date: September 25, 2009 at 02:45 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Wow! I just voted, and I had to work very hard to find a reason NOT to vote for any of these. Voted for the Seawall's, MCM and Scott. I know I'm gonna start sounding like a conspiracy theorist, but in the 5 sec. it took me to vote, Scott's count went from 8 to 15. Is it possible that I voted for him 5 times instead of once by accident? Probably won't matter...
I didn't vote for myself because I would've felt guilty in the face of these other amazing entries. Still, I have to say, it was fantastic! Thanks to Dre and Grapple for the Octagon compliments - I had actually meant to drizzle a bit of the sauce to give it that "fresh blood" look, but forgot. I left the skins on the new potatoes, though, so the "mat" looks blood-stained, but three weeks old.
Had to vote for the Seawalls because they stepped up, and because I've only had chicken fried steak once, and it was fantastic. Had to vote for MCM (despite ruining perfectly good mushrooms with onions
) because New York is my favourite steak and the presentation is great. Tough call between Scott and rock, but Scott's just edged out on presentation. I'd prefer the fries to the rice, and I'm not sure that lobster tail is from the east coast :evil: , but the final presentation photo sealed it.
Just an amazing job everyone, now invite me to dinner, dammit!

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: Scott123
Date: September 25, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

filipino said:
Wow! I just voted, and I had to work very hard to find a reason NOT to vote for any of these. Voted for the Seawall's, MCM and Scott. I know I'm gonna start sounding like a conspiracy theorist, but in the 5 sec. it took me to vote, Scott's count went from 8 to 15. Is it possible that I voted for him 5 times instead of once by accident? Probably won't matter...
I didn't vote for myself because I would've felt guilty in the face of these other amazing entries. Still, I have to say, it was fantastic! Thanks to Dre and Grapple for the Octagon compliments - I had actually meant to drizzle a bit of the sauce to give it that "fresh blood" look, but forgot. I left the skins on the new potatoes, though, so the "mat" looks blood-stained, but three weeks old.
Had to vote for the Seawalls because they stepped up, and because I've only had chicken fried steak once, and it was fantastic. Had to vote for MCM (despite ruining perfectly good mushrooms with onions
) because New York is my favourite steak and the presentation is great. Tough call between Scott and rock, but Scott's just edged out on presentation. I'd prefer the fries to the rice, and I'm not sure that lobster tail is from the east coast :evil: , but the final presentation photo sealed it.
Just an amazing job everyone, now invite me to dinner, dammit!
Click to expand...
I think I voted for myself in the same time so that would explain 2 of em.

 

[Nastycrow]

Originally posted by: rocklobster
Date: September 25, 2009 at 03:05 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/iron-chef-competition-round-2-voting.17951/

Those are weird voting numbers.