/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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I put all sorts of fucked up shit into chili; beer, cocoa powder, cinnamon, coffee, etc

using brewed coffee is fine, you won't taste it directly just like you don't taste beer

>>5622042
I will be. Forgot to picture the spices. Also I found this TJ's stuff I forgot I had. It's so good. Gonna use that instead of coffee.

Should I toast the cumin? Does it matter?

Brown that beef!

Chop those onions!

Should I caramelize the habaneros with the peppers/garlic/onion mixture or no?

oops

>>5622038
>no beans

>>5622132

Nothing wrong with beans in chili.

It is really quite simple:
If you like beans in chili than put beans in chili.
If you don't like beans in chili than don't put beans in chili.
If someone bitches about it, tell them to go fix their own chili.

>>5622132
Sorry coach!

>>5622038

In what third world communist rationing system do they distribute ground beef in plastic bags?

>>5622176
My neighbor gave them to me.. They were packaged about an hour from me in Carrollton, GA. No other info.

Alright I'm cooking the peppers, onions, and garlic in a mixture of beef grease, dark brown sugar, and some chunked country bacon that turns everything it touches into gold. Starting to smell great.

>>5622038
>bell peppers
For what purpose?

>>5622184
Why would I not use bell peppers?

If I put these reggianno rinds into the pot will they eventually melt? Or should I use my grain steeping bag? Or should I grate them up?

>>5622195

Grate 'em

>>5622176
You'll get beef in pound packages like that if you (at least in my experience) get them from a local butcher- we get a cow butchered every year and that's how all our beef comes.

>>5622218
Yeah they were all exactly a pound. Just not sure where they bought them.

>>5622211
Okay thank you.

Alright. I threw the garlic and water in the food processor then dumped it into the caramelizing veggies. I am mixing the beans, corn, tomatoes, ground chili peppers, spices, cheese, and water with the ground beef right now. I have habanero juice on my upper lip and in my nose and it hurts.

>>5622290
>water

Dear lord, you're not using water in chili are you? fuck that. Get something flavorful instead. Beer, vegetable juice, stock/broth, anything but water.

>>5622301
I'm doing beer, coffee, and just topping it off with water. I always thought it would be too strong if I used anything else.. I have bouillon cubes but nothing else. I haven't added water yet. Should I use that?

>>5622301
What about this? It's pretty good but apples..?

>>5622317

just use straight beer for the liquid. coffee is fine, but that's more of a seasoning than part of the main liquid volume. bullion cubes are better than nothing if you don't have enough beer.

>>5622326

I wouldn't use that, too sweet.

>>5622338
Right but see >>5622326

Is that okay?

I really don't have much room left but the only liquids I have are water and this apple beer. All my other beer is too fancy to dump. I am gonna add some Booker's though but obviously not enough to make a difference.

>>5622038
Where's the beans in that image?

>>5622354
Scroll down a bit. Using kidney beans.

Okay I'm just making bouillon I guess. I'm gonna raid my beer cellar and see if there's anything I wouldn't mind sparing. But honestly the other times I've just used water and it's been delicious. It really only needs 24-48 ounces of liquid and it'll be full.

>>5622038
Lemme get this straight.You had a great chili lined up. Then, due to random assholes in the thread about the chili you're making, (which really has no public place,) you decide to add beans.
>>adding beans to appease people on /ck/

>>5622366
No I always use beans. I love kidney beans in chili. I even got them out for the OP picture and just forgot to include them. Though why would two cans of beans ruin my chili for anyone? Do you hate beans everywhere or just in chili?

>>5622366
Chili without beans is awful, sorry texas.

Do I HAVE to grind the cumin? I was thinking about just toasting it on the stove.

Alright. Toasted cumin, ground it up, threw it in. On goes the lid. Thanks for participating. Maybe I'll post again when it's done simmering. I'm gonna try to simmer overnight but I have work in the morning.

>>5622377

>all these bitch niggas crying about beans in their chili. must be mexicans.

Beans are for faggots and peasants. If you don't have enough meat for a good chili and need beans for filler you are a poor fuck.

>>5622502
Said the gout-stricken duke from the 1600s

i just try to keep it simple.

basically you Need beans, preferably Kidney, meat is optional (chili con carne) a tomato base, spices and vegetables is also optional. I like mine on white rice.

bland chili is the worst.

>>5622502
>poor fuck

Or you just realize that beans belong in chili and make it a better dish...

>>5622377

Actually, the notion that you don't put beans in chili is not as widespread in Texas as some would have you believe. If you ask the oldtimers in rural areas, nearly every one of them will be rather surprised that some people think that it shouldn't have beans. I don't know any of the older ranchers around me who don't want beans in their chili.

I think that the notion mainly came from chili cookoffs, but then very few people would ever make cookoff chili for their regular dining. Cookoff chili is little more than a spicy gruel.

>>5622544
>I like beans and rice in spicy tomato sauce.

That's nice. I like chili.

>>5622705
I made the mistake of going to a chili cookoff once, it was awful. Maybe one chili out of thirty was edible. Some I wouldn't even call chili, one guy had literal chicken soup with too much cock sauce mixed in.

>>5622502
Eat shit. I used four pounds of ground beef and yet I'd still like to bite into a delicious kidney bean every now and then when I eat my chili. They aren't filler if you want them in there. They are not a substitute for meat.

>>5622757
>muh authentic chili

>>5623026
I don't think he's shitting on it for being inauthentic. Just sounds kinda boring. Not bad at all but it's barely even what a lot of good cooks would consider chili. I mean "spices and vegetables optional?"