FINALS: EGG

For our long awaited final showdown, Chefs Tai and Ellen laid the most fantastic spread yet. Judges came in their finest duds to enjoy (and critique) ten courses of perfectly prepared eggs.  Soups, salads, stews, sushi, sweets, and of course cocktails, featured chicken eggs, quail eggs, and fish eggs...mmmm. 

Congrats to Chef Tai on winning the Iron Chef Championship!

Contestant 1: Chef Ellen

Egg salad picnic

Baked eggs with lemon

Cowboy-style buffalo hash

Egg stuffed potatoes with caviar

Pineapple "un"ravioli with a fig caramel sauce.

Cocktail Interlude

Tai's quail egg & rambutan concoction

Aaron's spin on a pisco sour

Contestant 2: Chef Tai

Ramen noodle soup with egg noodles, egg dumplings, and soft 
boiled egg, as well as braised pork belly (of course!), fish balls, seaweed, 
radish, shitake mushrooms, and pork shoulder.

Quail eggs in a bird’s nest of fried egg noodles. Other components 
include chicken and mushroom sauce and zucchini salad

Sushi plate with egg salad/salmon rolls, tamago 
maki, and tobiko/quail egg nigiri. Accompanied by 
seaweed/apple salad and deviled pickled quail eggs.

Thai pumpkin and egg curry served with jasmine rice 
cooked with salted duck eggs

Dessert eggs filled with butternut squash soufflé and a lemon 
mousse topped with lemon custard. Served with whiskey eggnog.

And the Iron Chef Champion is.............Tai!!!