Neil Perry is among the Australian Iron Chef line-up.
Australia's appetite for flat-screen food is soon to be embellished with three of Australia’s top chefs featuring in the Australian version of the cult Japanese cooking television show Iron Chef.
Guy Grossi, from Melbourne, along with Rockpool’s Neil Perry and Bennelong’s Guillaume Brahimi from Sydney, will appear regularly in the series as the iron chefs who battle against young chefs.
Grossi said he was ‘‘very excited’’ to be working with Perry and Brahimi who he has known for years.
Melburnian Guy Grossi, of Grossi Florentino.
‘‘They are true irons chefs. They’ve been around for many years and they’ve done the hard yards and have always been able to maintain standard over a long period of time.. I’m very proud to be working alongside them,’’ he said.
The trio finalised talks yesterday over the show, which will screen on Channel Seven.
‘‘I’ve always been a bit of a fan because it’s a bit of a crazy, fun show. It’s a great honour that I was included on the list,’’ he said, explaining he was a fan of both the Japanese and US versions.
Perry's fellow Sydneysider Guillaume Brahimi.
It starts filming in Melbourne in the coming weeks.
Mr Grossi said people seem to be really embracing cooking shows at the moment.
He’s not wrong. Following the MasterChef phenomenon, is an Australian version of Come Dine with Me and new shows Conviction Kitchen, My Kitchen Rules and Home Cooked!
Three hundred episodes of Iron Chef were filmed between 1993 and 1999, when the show ended but repeats continued to be screened every Saturday night in Australia on SBS.
The show was also a cult hit in the US and its popularity led to a spin-off version there in 2004.
In each episode of the Japanese show, a contestant chef challenges one of the Iron Chefs, who are specialists in certain cuisines, to engage in a "battle" or cook-off.
They are then given a mystery ingredient they must use in every dish of a multi-course meal that they produce in one hour.
‘‘If we can discover some great new talent along the way, all the better,’’ Grossi said.
The logo of MasterChef Australia.
In the wake of the season finale of ,  has announced that they shall be airing an "Aussie" remake of the Japanese cult classic .

Production starts in September in Melbourne, Victoria, with Neil Perry, Guy Grossi, and Guillaume Brahimi as the incumbent "Iron Chefs".

Grossi stated that Australians seem to be taking to the cooking show concept positively. Grossi also said that "if we can discover some great new talent along the way, all the better."

The Australian Iron Chef will take the traditional format of the Japanese version with contestants challenging the Iron Chefs to a cook-off using a secret ingredient each week, a spokesperson said. The dishes the Iron Chef and the contestants create will then be judged by a panel of food critics.

"The Iron Chef battle is not for amateurs or the faint-hearted — it is a cooking competition of Olympic proportions," the spokesperson continued.

As it stands, MasterChef Australia is the third most watched show in Australian history.