/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18098746
>The only written in stone rule there is to chili is that you follow YOUR recipe
You can have your amateur hour homestyle chili padded out with filler ingredients like beans if you want, but keep it to yourself as a shameful secret.

>>13903124
>Please explain. What's wrong with beans and chili?
What is there to explain? "Chili" with beans isn't chili at all.
Beans in general are a poverty food used to stand in for meat.
>During the last days of meat rationing in 1945-1946, the term Trumanburger was coined. This dish, named after President Harry Truman, consisted of a patty of mashed baked beans! [8: 12]
http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/food/panl8ukno.html
Specific to beans in the context of chili, here are two sources (CASI and ICS) telling you beans are filler ingredients:
https://www.casichili.net/guide-1st-time-cook.html
>CASI has a whole book dedicated to rules for a CASI event; but most of these are administrative rules for the CASI officials and event promoters. There are a few basic rules that a cook must remember:
>Do not use fillers in your chili; such as beans, macaroni, rice, hominy, or other similar ingredients.
>>13308498
>Any non-meat fillers are not allowed, including beans.
If you can actually taste beans you for whatever reason decided to add to your "chili" then separate from the beans issue you already fucked up. The entire point of chili is it's supposed to be strong as fuck flavor. Hence why it's a filler ingredient. The weak taste of beans adds nothing to the flavor if you did everything else right which means you only have it there to skimp on the meat.

>>13308468
>Meat isn't even part of the dish, it is added optionally.
Yikes.
>By what definition?
You can have your shitty bean monstrosity in an amateur hour homestyle cook-off for slow children. Just keep it away from people with fully developed nervous systems and tongues.

>>12737646
You can have your amateur hour homestyle chili padded out with filler ingredients like beans if you want. Just don't pretend you're the one doing it right.

>>12717928
>Chili without beans is crap pasta sauce.
>You have no idea what you're talking about.
You can have your amateur hour homestyle chili padded out with filler ingredients like beans if you want. Just don't pretend you're the one doing it right. You're the same as people who use ranch dressing for their Buffalo wings.
Yes, more people today use ranch dressing then blue cheese for Buffalo wings. No, that's not how you're supposed to do it.

>>12701391
>traditionally
No. Do that if you want but it definitely isn't traditional.
>>12701881
Nobody actually calls chili "homestyle" outside of cook-offs.
"Homestyle" is just a polite term for "amateur" when cook-off rules need to differentiate between the real contest vs. the special needs side contest that's maintained to quarantine the plebs who insist on making low quality weak chili centered around filler ingredients like beans.

>>12403320
this

>>12387251
>Because poor people can't afford all meat with no filler material to stretch it out. Nobody likes beans, but they put them so you get more meals out of it.
He's right you know. Beans are fine for amateur hour homestyle chili, but keep filler out of the real stuff.