Chopped Top Iron Chef - Oakridge, Season 1, Episode 6 - Warren vs.James - Yes We CAN!

This weeks we have Warren going head-to-head with James for the second time.  Eric was the secret shopper, the Cheftestants are provided with the following ingredients which are mostly canned and prepared foods.

Canned Spam

Canned Whole kernel Corn

Canned Swift Cooked ham 

Canned Chipotle Peppers Imitation Crab Meat fresh

Canned Artichoke Hearts

Canned Red Kidney Beans

Canned Black Beans

Canned Chick Peas

Canned Lentils

Heinz BBQ sauce

Canned Wild pink salmon

Vienna Sausage

Canned Oven roasted unsalted Almonds

Canned Unico sliced ripe olives

Canned sliced potatoes

Canned Hereford corned beef

Canned sliced mushrooms

Canned Thai kitchen coconut milk

Mr. Noodles instant noodles mushroom flavour

Egg roll wraps 

Fresh Tarragon

French Dill

Fresh Sage

fresh cabbage

French Bread  

The Chefs draw knives to determine who will choose the protein first, Warren wins and takes the Polish sausage and the canned ham.  James then takes the imitation crab and the canned salmon.  Time is then taken to plan their dishes.  Warren is preparing Chili and James decides to do a seafood chowder.

Halfway through the competition the Chefs are asked to go over their ingredient lists to ensure that they are using at least half of the mandatory ingredients.  Both Chefs fall short and must add items from the list.

The final dishes are presented:

Chef Warren presents a sausage, ham and multi-bean Chili with Polenta fries topped with a tomato relish and a buttered Crostini.

Chef James serves a creamy Seafood Chowder with clams, shrimp, scallops and salmon topped with roasted almonds accompanied with a Biscuit stuffed with a Cabbage Slaw.

The judging begins and after much deliberation the results are in...

Presentation - Warren

Creativity - Warren

Taste - Warren

So once again Warren takes the win and is named Iron Chef because he has competed three times and is undefeated.  

James, however, wins best dish with his Chowder.  The Judges felt that there were some problems with the execution of James overall meal, the way he plated the biscuit on top of his Chowder cost him valuable points.  If he had served it differently, there may have been a different outcome.

Next week's challenge to be determined.