<Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ Based on weighted average (. 5 victory for a draw). The win / loss data is based on the performance of the Iron Chef in Iron Chef America: The Series and the Battle of the Masters . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Wolfgang Puck was an Iron Chef for one battle, during the Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters mini-series; he defeated Iron Chef Morimoto . When the show was picked up as a regular series, Puck could not remain an Iron Chef, and was replaced by Morimoto . He is considered as a retired Iron Chef . </Li> </Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ Based on weighted average (. 5 victory for a draw). The win / loss data is based on the performance of the Iron Chef in Iron Chef America: The Series and the Battle of the Masters . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Wolfgang Puck was an Iron Chef for one battle, during the Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters mini-series; he defeated Iron Chef Morimoto . When the show was picked up as a regular series, Puck could not remain an Iron Chef, and was replaced by Morimoto . He is considered as a retired Iron Chef . </Li> <P> Each Iron Chef wears a specially designed chef's jacket, a simplified version of the more stylized attire worn by the Japanese Iron Chefs, along with an apron and trousers of their choice for each battle . Through the Battle of the Masters and the show's first six seasons, the Iron Chefs wore contemporary denim chef's jackets with individualized solid - colored patches and trim: Batali's jacket trim was red, Cora's pink, Flay's blue, Morimoto's white, Puck's green and Symon's black . On the left shoulder of each jacket was a flag representing the Chef's country of origin . </P>

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