5 crucial changes on Netflix’s ‘Quest for an Iron Legend’

After “Iron Chef America” ruled the Food Network for more than a dozen seasons, the famed cooking competition is back on Netflix.

“Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend” is now streaming an 8-episode first season, shot in a new Los Angeles Kitchen Stadium with familiar basics – the show's elite Iron Chefs take on deadline cooking challenges against rival chefs with meals involving a secret ingredient announced by The Chairman (with actor Mark Dacascos reprising the role).

But there are noticeable “Iron Legend” changes that are “quite significant and crucial,” says returning host Alton Brown. “But the show's DNA remains intact. This is evolution, not mutation.”

Here are the top five differences.

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Newcomer Kristen Kish brings competition pedigree

“Top Chef” Season 10 winner Kristen Kish joins Brown as “Iron Legend” co-host, showing competition battle experience and interviewing the chefs on camera during the frenzied preparation. “Kristen can go down on the floor and ask great questions and really get inside people's heads,” says Brown. “Then she comes back up and we can talk about it.”