/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14824236
Russians or FL man? it's gotta be Russians right

>>12361130
cooking longer will break down some flavors like garlic which will get milder and milder the longer it cooks and other ingredients will blend together with a longer cooking period. The thing is different chili's are well different... my "Florida man chili" had really bold flavors that stand on their own and blending them together the sausage and chipotle flavors were overtaken by the BBQ hamburger flavor and the longer cook time also caused the chunks of hamburger to fall back apart resulting in what at the 2 hour make was a amazingly flavorful chili changed into a basic chili at the 5 hour mark.

Now if you're starting with a simpler chili recipe without unique flavors you want to preserve yes a longer cook time should help, but to add layers of complexity you can do as you mentioned and spices in batches (flavor dumps) along the way because the early one will blend in and later won't but be careful because to many dried spices can make it grainy

the cocoa powder and coffee work as a buffer to balance out flavors so one flavor doesn't take over the whole batch, you shouldn't actually taste them so use in small amounts