VIDEO: Next Iron Chef’s First Food Fight

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If you’ve ever thought that the Next Iron Chef kitchen is home only to neat, orderly, proper chefs, it’s time to think again. When the cameras stopped rolling after last Sunday’s Secret Ingredient Showdown, Chefs Elizabeth Falkner, Duskie Estes and Amanda Freitag indulged in a second battle, this time a physical one. Within minutes of Alton saying “The challenge is over,” the first handfuls of food were flung and a full-fledged food fight was underway. Each of the chefs aimed for her fellow rivals and doled out the leftovers of her dish’s components, and each took the ingredient inundation in stride, becoming covered with marshmallow fluff, flour and more in a flash.
Want to see how it all went down? Click the play button on the video above to watch Chefs Falkner, Estes and Freitag go head-to-head-to-head in the ultimate Kitchen Stadium food fight, then tell us: Who do you think started the fight and which chef became the messiest?
Scroll below for more behind-the-scenes snapshots of the fight.

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A still-clean Chef Estes ducked for cover to avoid Chef Freitag’s aim.

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During the fight, Chef Falkner found that she even had remnants of food in her ear.

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Armed with a bowl of leftover food, Chef Estes headed back to the fight zone.

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Chefs Greenspan and Guarnaschelli watched from the sidelines as Chef Freitag took a quick clean-up break.

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“Don’t get it on our plates!” Chef Estes yelled to her fellow rivals about their Showdown offerings.