{"id":292418,"date":"2020-05-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1151758"},"modified":"2020-05-15T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T07:00:00","slug":"were-dishing-out-the-best-secrets-about-beat-bobby-flay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/were-dishing-out-the-best-secrets-about-beat-bobby-flay\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re Dishing Out the Best Secrets About Beat Bobby Flay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Michelein star is nice. A James Beard, great as well. But for some chefs nothing is quite as sweet as besting Bobby Flay<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Since 2013, the Iron Chef, a three-time James Beard honoree himself, has been taking on challengers with his Food Network series, Beating Bobby Flay<\/em>, a natural extension of the head-to-head face-offs he engaged in on Iron Chef<\/em> and Throwdown With Bobby Flay<\/em>. The show’s recipe is straightforward. Each half-hour episode starts with two cooks battling it out to create a meal using a featured ingredient (think: fresh squid, pumpkin puree or sardines).<\/p>\n

Once a winner has been determined by the guest judges\u2014as pals of Flay, their prime motivation is finding someone capable of taking him down\u2014they get a swing at The French Culinary Institute grad and<\/em> they get to decide what’s on the menu, generally a signature dish that they’ve spent years perfecting.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Even with that upper hand, Flay’s competitors don’t serve up humble pie all that often. In 297 episodes, across 25 seasons, the 13-time cookbook author has only lost a respectable 111 times\u2014and more than a few of those were to his fellow Food Network personalities. (Judges named Alex Guarnaschelli<\/strong> the victor in the blind taste test twice; Amanda Freitag<\/strong> has notched another win and, most recently, pastry whiz Buddy Valastro<\/strong> topped Flay in a cake-themed competition.)  <\/p>\n

“Competing and beating someone of his stature, and knowing how good of a chef he is, it was definitely validation to show my skill exceeded his that day,” Michael Merida told New Jersey’s Pascack Press<\/em><\/a> of winning with his smoked cod croquettes in February’s season 25 premiere. “I wanted to see who the better chef was when it came to flavors\u2014and I out flavored him.”  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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With no end in sight, there are plenty more opportunities to watch the 55-year-old to get his just desserts (and you can catch 10 of his losses now that seasons eight and nine have dropped on Hulu). <\/p>\n

In the meantime, we’re dishing out some secrets about his long-running hit. Eat up!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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A Michelein star is nice. A James Beard, great as well. But for some chefs nothing is quite as sweet as besting Bobby Flay.  Since 2013, the Iron Chef, a three-time James Beard honoree himself, has been taking on challengers with his Food Network series, Beating Bobby Flay, a natural extension of the head-to-head face-offs he engaged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 01:13:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}