Here are some ideas for future Chopped Top Iron Chef - Oakridge Episodes...

From the archives of Top Chef, here are some Quickfire and Elimination challenges the Chefs faced since season 1....

The chefs must create a dish using $20 worth of ingredients from a gas station store.  (Season 1, Episode 4, Quickfire Challenge)

The chefs must identify a variety of ingredients by taste while blindfolded.  (Season 1, Episode 4, Quickfire Challenge)

Each chef are asked to make a sandwich using any of the available ingredients.  (Season 1, Episode 5, Quickfire Challenge)

The chefs are required to prepare a dish using all the ingredients in a closed crate to be served to the other Top Chef contestants.  (Season 2, Episode 1, Elimination Challenge)

The chefs have to make a dish updating a "childhood classic".  (Season 2, Episode 3, Elimination Challenge)

The remaining chefs must create a dish using three different canned foods.  (Season 2, Episode 6, Quickfire Challenge)

Each chef draws a knife that shows a different color. The chefs must then create a dish based on the color drawn from the knife block.  (Season 2, Episode 9, Quickfire Challenge)

The chefs prepare a burger.  (Season 3, Episode 9, Quickfire Challenge)

The chefs must create a signature deep dish pizza.  (season 4, Episode 1, Quickfire Challenge)

The chefs must each prepare a vegetarian dish.  (Season 6, Episode 10, Elimination Challenge)

The chefs each create a dish that represents where they are from.  (Season 7, Episode 1, Elimination Challenge)

The chefs prepare individual dishes best served cold.  (Season 7, Episode 6, Elimination Challenge)

The chefs must make a dish inspired by a foreign country.  (Season 7, Episode 8, Elimination Challenge)

WHAT DOES EVERYONE THINK ABOUT THESE IDEAS?

Chopped Top Iron Chef Oakridge - Season 1, Episode 3 - White Night: Ron vs. Richard

Tonight's battle was Ron vs. Richard, with James as the "shopper".  James brought all white ingredients to the competition:

canned potatoes

chicken

white brats

flour tortillas

scallops

cauliflower

white kidney beans

perogies

sour cream

cream cheese

rice vermicelli

cream of potato soup

milk

white cake mix

Dream Whip

instant hot white chocolate

almonds

coconuts

Prep time brought much deliberation and menu planning on both sides.  Ron and Richard, although competing against each other, worked very well in the kitchen, prepping some items together, such as toasting almonds and cooking the vermicelli. 

 Richard chose to do a home style curry with a jalapeno Havarti quesadilla.  

Ron went with a trio of beef carpaccio, butter-braised potatoes, and a pan fried chicken and cheese wrap.

Both dishes were delicious and unique.   The best dish of the night was Ron's wraps, they had great flavor (and they were topped with sour cream).  The judges scored the dishes and here are the results:

Taste:  Ron

Creativity:  Richard

Presentation:  Ron

So Ron takes this evenings win.  Congratulations Ron!

Special mention must go to James, who after last weeks loss was on Redemption Kitchen Island, so he prepared a cake with some of the unused white ingredients.  YUM-O!

Next weeks Cheftestants will be Ron vs. Eric, with Richard choosing the special ingredients.  

Current standings:

                        Wins                  Losses

Ron                     1                        1

Warren                1                        0

James                  1                        1

Richard               0                        1

Eric                     0                        0

                  

Chopped top Iron Chef Oakridge, Season 1, Episode 2 - James vs. warren - Meat Wars Judges Ron and again special guest judges Richard and Eric

As of now James and Warren are prepping between veal scallopini, pork ribs and chicken. Warren is preparing veal scallopini, cucumber red onion with yogurt, roasted potatoes with parsley and an Asparagus salad with his take on a bloody Mary. James is doing a citrus rib with little chicken pot pies. He also plans on using the avocado in some application. Both cheftestants are ferverously prepping away.

The Challenge!

Each week three of us gather for a night of food fun. Based on three shows, we have come up with a friendly albeit tense competition combining elements from "Chopped", "Top Chef", and "Iron Chef". Watch and follow the three of us as we challenge each other to different themes and ingredients each week.