Chili General

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15643814]

What's the verdict on using cocao powder in your bowl o red?

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15643820]

This goes without saying, but beanlets can fuck off to their bean soup thread.

[Anonymous No.15643823]

>>15643814
No.

[Anonymous No.15643827]

cacao, coffee grounds, nut of horse, and beer are all acceptable additions to any chili

[Anonymous No.15643831]

>>15643814
There are other things that will bring bitterness, sweetness and complexity to the table, but if you've overdone it on the garlic, habaneros and fat, then all the power to you.

[Anonymous No.15643836]

>>15643814
Only if you're going for a pre-Columbian themed meal and use turkey or whatever for the meat.

[Anonymous No.15643850]

>>15643814
Only if you're a faggot who doesn't eat beans. You know. Like faggots are won't to do. Faggot. Did I mention you're a faggot, faggot? Because you are. A faggot, I mean

[Anonymous No.15643973]

>>15643814
>>15643820
Beans go in chilli. Cope.

[Anonymous No.15643983]

>>15643973

they literally by the definition of chili don't

[Anonymous No.15644005]

>>15643973
>>15643983
gentlemen, gentlemen. chili can have beans if you want, or if you don't. its all good. what we really need to focus on is the shitty filler - you know what i'm talking about. tomatoes. the red menace.

[Anonymous No.15644011]

>>15643814
Bowl o red. Hehe! That's a good one, never heard it before haha!

[Anonymous No.15644012]

>>15644005
these people put saltines and cheese in their chili

[Anonymous No.15644017]

>>15643983
They literally do.

>>15644005
What would be the base of your chilli if not tomatoes?

[Anonymous No.15644020]

>>15643814
Cinnamon is also great in chili.

[Anonymous No.15644021]

>>15643983
>>15644005
Tomatoes and beans are fine. It should not have peppers of any kind.

[Anonymous No.15644025]

>>15644017
>
What would be the base of your chilli if not tomatoes
why do you think its called chili?

[Anonymous No.15644032]

>>15643820
wouldn't beanlet mean without beans? Why would a beanlet go to a thread with beans when they don't have any?

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644049]

>>15644017
The meat, retard.

I recently took the no tomato pill, and I'm never looking back

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644054]

>>15644020
Hey chief

[Anonymous No.15644115]

>>15643850
jesus this place makes /pol/ seem downright civil

[Anonymous No.15644124]

>>15644025
>>15644049
Chilli has sauce, where do you get the sauce from if not tomatoes?

>>15644049
Retard.

[Anonymous No.15644127]

>>15643814
love/hate
people either like it or they don't care for it (my Mom taught me to be polite)
but always puts some beans in that chili

[Anonymous No.15644186]

>>15643814
Using cacao is fine and only turbo autists from texas give a shit

[Anonymous No.15644226]

>>15644186
Their chili usually sucks anyway... usually. Some are actually really good.

[Anonymous No.15644230]

>>15643814
DANG BOY I JUST LOVE ME SOME MEAT N BROTH DONT MESS WITH TEXAS

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644272]

>>15644124
What the fuck do you mean sauce? Chili has a minimal amount of liquid; too much and you dilute it and ruin your chili. You want just enough to cover your beef while it stews. You don't want "sauce", and if you have too much liquid you will have to dump a ton of corn starch in to get it sufficiently thick. Adding too much cornstarch is a simple way to tell if you fucked up your chili.

>>15644186
I am a Texan.

[Anonymous No.15644277]

>>15644272
You should just never be allowed near food.

[Anonymous No.15644280]

>>15644272
>chili with no sauce
The fuck is wrong with you. It's chili, not bbq beef.

[Anonymous No.15644284]

>>15643814
Cacao sounds interesting.
I dont use beans, but I like to cause autistic meltdowns by using corn in my chili. I can hear the screeching and heavy tard breathing from here

[Anonymous No.15644292]

>>15644272
>You don't want "sauce", and if you have too much liquid you will have to dump a ton of corn starch in to get it sufficiently thick
For me, it's reducing the liquid down until it's got the consistency of a thick gravy, because I had to buy an entire bag of corn masa when I used it as a thickener, and I'm using it up by making corn tortillas to serve the chili in.

[Anonymous No.15644296]

>>15644284
That's weird mate. If you're going to use corn, it should be because you enjoy it in your chili.

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644303]

>>15644292
This man knows. Masa is the correct way to thicken chili, but if you have to thicken it from a pure liquid you end up dumping so much in it comes out tasting like a corn tortilla. Gotta get it thick before you add it.
>tfw working off the same bag of masa flour for a year and still have 4/5s of the bag

>>15644284
Sounds gross m8

[Anonymous No.15644317]

>>15644303
If you have to reduce or thicken a chili from a purely liquid state, you need to unfuck physics, and then maybe take a look at how Porkolt is made.

[Anonymous No.15644341]

>>15644284
>corn in chilli
People like you deserve to be waterboarded

[Anonymous No.15644354]

>>15644296
I do enjoy it, there just happens to be a second benefit
>>15644341
>>15644303
>t.

[Anonymous No.15644370]

>>15644354
You haven't posted a picture of it. Do you eat corn chili and hear the screeching in your head? That could be an early sign of schizophrenia.

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644471]

>>15644317
Shut the fuck up you idiot

[Anonymous No.15644484]

>>15643814
what's the best alternative beef to use that's not ground? The chili I see with hunks of stringy beef look way better than typical ground, like in OP, what kind of beef is it?

[Anonymous No.15644506]

>>15644484
You'll want to use some of something with a decent amount of fat and connective tissue - something tough. Chuck, flank, tip. At least 1/3. Brown it first, and simmer all that goodness out.

[Anonymous No.15644516]

>>15644506
that's what i thought, i was thinking maybe shank. But those cuts sound good, thanks.

[Anonymous No.15644531]

>>15644471
Serious question, tripfag: why are you on a cooking board? Are you even capable of applying heat to food?

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644532]

>>15644484
I used chuck for that. Definitely the go to for chili. Make sure you get a well marbled cut, there can be a lot of variation but you can find some gems.

[Anonymous No.15644543]

>>15644484
>>15644532
He also used canned whipped cream in lieu of sour cream, so take his advice at face value.

[Anonymous No.15644555]

>>15644370
Here's a picture of it. I had it with a homemade biscuit. Also there is poultry gizzard in there.

[Anonymous No.15644562]

>>15644532
>>15644543
chuck sounds about right from what i know. Not pre-cut according to /ourguy/ chef john

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644563]

>>15644543
That's literally sour cream on top you retard.

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644567]

>>15644555
Lmao did you put hominy in it?

[Anonymous No.15644568]

>>15643814
Never used it, but I have used cinnamon.

[Anonymous No.15644582]

>>15644049
If you're getting rid of 'maters you mizell get rid of peppers too.
Now you're eating pre-colombian bolognese.
Based

[Anonymous No.15644587]

>>15644272
STEERS AND QUEERS

[Anonymous No.15644873]

>>15644563
Does it come in men's?
>I know you do! Get it? Because you're a homosexual.

[Anonymous No.15644910]

>>15644562
>/ourguy/ chef john
baste

[Anonymous No.15644915]

>>15644567
No. Sweet corn from my garden

[Anonymous No.15644925]

>>15644555
>corn
you deserve to be shot

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15644949]

>>15644915
Looks like shit m8

[Anonymous No.15644959]

>>15644124
Tabasco sauce has tomatoes?

[Anonymous No.15644964]

>>15644925
>you deserve to be shot

[Anonymous No.15644972]

>>15644949

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15645031]

>>15644972
>Ew, yucky!

[Anonymous No.15645691]

>>15643814
makes your chili digievolve into a mole

[Anonymous No.15645730]

>>15643850
>Like faggots are won't to do.
Indeed

[Anonymous No.15645741]

>>15644115
That guy is having a moment we're not usually like that

[Anonymous No.15645747]

>>15644555
looks like garbage

[Anonymous No.15646033]

I rarely ever hunger for chili... there are just so many more interesting forms of stewed meat. If I do want chili, I am snowboarding or in some other chilly environment where the comfort and spice of chili warms me from the inside.

In this case, I really like my chili to have a lot of complexity in seasoning (like cacao, cinnamon, nutmeg) and filling ingredients like beans. If I’m making a big pot of chili, I want it to stand in as a prepared meal for being lazy throughout the week for my meals. But like I said, I can think of so many other stewed meat dishes that would be better than spiced tomato beef stew. The last time I made chili was over a year ago.

The bean-less, veggie-light chilis I have had have only ever really been in the context of use as a condiment. Like on a chili dog or the insanely spicy variety provided at TexMex restaurants that I use as a taco sauce.

Texans seem to think their variety of chili is appropriate for every context, but not everyone lives in a dry as fuck beaner desert where a tradition devoid of quality produce meant chilis that were made with minimal veggies.

[Anonymous No.15646091]

>beans do not go in chili
>tomatoes do not go in chili
You gaylords who think there was fresh produce and time to soak beans all night on the chuckwagon trail are idiots.

[Anonymous No.15646093]

>>15644124
From the chilis retard.

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15646762]

>>15645741
No, this is pretty typical

[Anonymous No.15646825]

5 minutes and it's ready

[Anonymous No.15646830]

>>15643850
You need help with your obsession. Get professional help now. This is a cooking board.

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15646835]

>>15646825
Some kind of tomato and vegetable soup with beef? Congratulations but it's a bit off topic for this thread.

[Anonymous No.15646866]

>>15646835
it has chipotle and california peppers, 1 kg of beef and the same amount of beans, but no tomatoes. sorry sport

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15646868]

>>15646866
Oh sorry, bean soup then I see

[Anonymous No.15647145]

>>15646866
He's doing this for the attention. If you ignore him, he'll go away - after flooding the board with chili spam and getting b& for a week.

[Anonymous No.15647161]

>>15643814
Interesting take on dessert. Did you wipe afterward?

[Anonymous No.15647209]

Are you low on cash? Looking for something that's cheap, filling and tastes good? Well you're gonna love this.

Ingredients
>4 onions
>one head of garlic
>three bell peppers
>three jalapeno peppers
>three habanero peppers
>5 guajillo chilis
>an ancho chili
>a chipotle chili
>five cups of dried pinto beans
>cumin, coriander, cacao powder, salt, black pepper, all to taste

Procedure
>finely dice the onions and fresh peppers, EXCEPT the habanero, sweat them in lard in a hot pot until the onions are translucent
>add the garlic and cook until fragrant
>add in the beans and cover with enough water to let them swell, in at least a 2:1 ratio
>add in salt here and bring to a simmer. be generous, beans crave salt.
>simmer the beans until soft, which should take around 1.5 hours
>do NOT skim the foam off the water. this is pure starch that will reincorporate into the broth and emulsify with the fat you used to soften the veggies, which makes the broth smoother and thick
>when the beans are soft, grind up the dried chilis and mix together your spice blend with them and all the other aforementioned other spices.
>cut up the habaneros
>add the spices and habaneros. we didn't add the habaneros until now because they tend to lose their heat if you simmer them for a long time
>simmer for another 30 minutes or so, or until you feel that the flavors have gotten mixed together
>do NOT eat yet. portion out, dump into the fridge, and let it sit overnight. it will taste better that way. this should make almost a week's worth of food

serving
>bake some cornbread. if you aren't adding herbs to the cornbread, you are doing it wrong
>while the cornbread cools, reheat the chili in a pot
>poach an egg in the chili, garnish with parsley or oregano if you want, and serve with the fresh, warm cornbread

this is a cheat code for a delicious, filling set of dinners for days.

[Anonymous No.15647225]

I made some hot dog chili boys. How'd I do?

[Anonymous No.15647912]

>>15647209
It's not even red...

[Anonymous No.15647950]

As long as you don't use beans it's fine. Just remember that if you use beans then it's literally not chili. It is spicy bean and meat soup. As you can see all arguments have been refuted. Post in this thread to agree

[Anonymous No.15648049]

>>15647950
Excused me sir, you dropped your trip.

[Anonymous No.15648065]

>>15643814
Wtf does no one else serve their chili with some rice ?

[Anonymous No.15648331]

>>15647912
Chili gets redder the more tomato product you put in it. Less tomatoes, less red. Dried chilis are a dark brown color, as are browned beef and beans.

[Anonymous No.15648383]

>>15648331
>dried chilies are a dark brown color
Depends on the type of chili and how it's been roasted/dried you fucking retard. I have some arbol that's practically brown.

[Anonymous No.15648468]

>>15648383
If you're mixing your chili powder properly, you are using a blend of red and dark peppers, which makes the final product brown. Dumbass.

[Anonymous No.15648491]

>>15644516
If you're using shank, try to get bone-in. Cook the chili with bones in the stew and take em out when you're done

[Anonymous No.15648530]

Do you anons have a premade chili spice mix? I know some people have a family blend of kitchen pepper, so do any of you have a set of dried spices that you have on hand, already mixed together, for use in making chili and like meals?

[Anonymous No.15648549]

>>15648065
>Wtf does no one else serve their chili with some rice ?
Fuck no. Chili is to be served with cornbread.

[Anonymous No.15648568]

>>15647225
You did good son.. you did good..

[Anonymous No.15648575]

>>15648530
I usually have a jar going where I put my dried and smoked chilies after about a month. Every now and then I dump half of that in with some toasted cumin, salt, pepper, dehydrated onion and garlic, and dried oregano and thyme (all also run through the processor), which becomes a chili powder/curry precursor.

[Anonymous No.15648614]

>>15643814
Doesnt matter what you put in it, as long as it AINT BEANS

[Anonymous No.15648645]

>>15648614
>t. retard

[Anonymous No.15648976]

>>15648645
Beans can go in chili, but you have to commit to it. Beans don't belong in a chili with meat. You should be using thickly cut chuck roast like the OP, and beans don't bring much to the table here. If beans are in the chili, they should be the main focus of the chili. A meatless chili. It's one or the other.

[Anonymous No.15648988]

>>15648976
No. Beans work with meat so long as its ground or mince. If you want chunks of a discernable cut, then by all means go meatless, but beans and ground meat is a fantastic combination. Meatless chili is retarded.

[Anonymous No.15649156]

>>15648988
By using ground meat in chili, you are only hurting yourself

[Anonymous No.15649272]

>>15643814
i'm pro- cacao, i usually use baking chocolate, some cinnamon and -hear me out- a small tablespoon's worth of finely ground coffee. i also put honey and/or molasses/maple syrup in my chili, with garam masala and copious amounts of dried chilis rehydrated in beer

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15649771]

>>15648331
>>15648468
Haha what? Look at how red the bowl is in the op post. I guarantee you there were zero tomatoes that went into that chili.

[Anonymous No.15649792]

>>15643983
By that logic neither do tomatoes, onions or spices

[Anonymous No.15649806]

>>15644124
>Chilli has sauce, where do you get the sauce from if not tomatoes
From the meat retard. Do you seriously not know how to make a fucking stew?

[Anonymous No.15649855]

>>15649792
If it's not an empty bowl, it's not right.

[Anonymous No.15649862]

>>15649792
>>15649855
No. It's called chili. You put chilis and only chilis in it.

[Anonymous No.15649891]

>>15649771
All that tells me is that you were using a very unbalanced chili blend that consisted mostly of guajillos and little else. Not exactly something to be proud of admitting.

[Anonymous No.15649929]

>>15644021

[Anonymous No.15650175]

>>15649862
There should be no bowl, nor chilies, nor meat, vegetable, fruit, fungus, spice, herb, crystalline mineral or human being of any kind. Chili should be an unvarnished, wooden table, like it was in the old days when we had famine for dinner and sorrow for dessert. Now stop fucking with the classics, and get off my lawn!

[Anonymous No.15650254]

>>15650175
>he has a table
richfag

[Anonymous No.15650397]

>>15650254
>he doesn't snort freshly hand-ground chili pepper straight from the mortar, as Quetzalcoatl intended
Go back to your fast food threads, faggot

[Anonymous No.15650459]

>>15650254
We had famine and sorry. I didn't say anything about poverty, serf. Now fetch me my crippling loneliness.

[Anonymous No.15650460]

>>15650397
>Quetzalcoatl
Jajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajaja

[Anonymous No.15650676]

>>15650460
Season 2 when? It's been years.

[Anonymous No.15650692]

>>15650676
>Season 2
Huh? The Babylonia arc is finished. The first of the Camelot movies came out last year. They already said they're not adapting Solomon.

[Anonymous No.15650695]

>>15650676
Babylonia just finished last year, anon.

[Anonymous No.15652053]

I dont even know why I even look at this board, none of you can even cook. Just fat fucks arguing about beans while eating fast food.

[Anonymous No.15652055]

>>15643973
not chili con carne u fuggin devil worshipper

[Anonymous No.15652065]

I made a quick chili the other night. Garlic, onion, celery, ground beef, chili powder, paprika, beans, diced tomatoes.
Simple as.

[Anonymous No.15652088]

>>15652055
He said chili, not texas braised beef. Go back to freezing to burning your houses down because you can't figure out how to warm your houses.

[Anonymous No.15652385]

>>15652088
cope bean nigger

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15652454]

I thought I told all y'all beanlets to fuck off to your bean soup thread.

[Anonymous No.15652521]

>>15643814
Is that Mayonnaise?

[Anonymous No.15652759]

>>15652521
Whipped cream. He made a strawberry-beef compote.

[Anonymous No.15652954]

I've been using Chipoltes, Guajilos, Pasilla, Arbols, and Anchos to make a chili paste lately, think it's been turning out pretty good

[Anonymous No.15652999]

>>15652954
sounds smokey

[Anonymous No.15653388]

>>15643814

I get the dark chocolate instead of brown sugar. Recently because we have so much chocolate left from Christmas Ive been using whatever I have at hand. Dark chocolate orange slices most recently, pretty indistinguishable.

Totally unneeded if sweetcorn is used.

[Anonymous No.15653522]

>>15643814
Chili purists are no better than Italians

[Anonymous No.15655317]

>>15653522
wopsicans

[Anonymous No.15655865]

what the fuck

[Anonymous No.15656710]

>>15643814
Why are you posting stew in a chili thread

[Anonymous No.15657719]

>>15644032
so they can get some beans dickhead

[Anonymous No.15657794]

>>15643814
Go for it
Not needed, by any means, but it can be good.
>>15643983
No water or broth allowed in my chili con carne!
>>15644124
Meat, ground chilis, water/broth will form a sauce.
Why is anyone having issues with chili being too wet? It does need to form a gravy, but doesn't need more liquid than just covers other ingredients. If water steams off, add, use a teaspoon or so of masa if you want to thicken it

[Anonymous No.15657892]

menudo is chili

[Anonymous No.15657910]

>>15644555
looks pretty good to me, idk why people are shitting on you

[Anonymous No.15658477]

>>15644020
Yes! I just made a pot with cinnamon for the first time, it's really good.

[Anonymous No.15658494]

>>15643820
>>15644272
>I am a Texan.
Why would you admit that? Opinion discarded.

[Anonymous No.15659635]

>>15657910
Autism. Remember this is an anime board.

[Anonymous No.15659667]

>>15644021
Peppers in chilli are delicious.

>>15644272
>>15646093
>>15649806
Literally cope and seethe, fucking retards.

Chilli has chopped tomatoes in it, which makes a sauce.

[Anonymous No.15659820]

>>15659635
No, the pedophilic cartoon board is that way: >>>/a/

[Anonymous No.15660159]

>>15659667
No peppers. There are no chilies in chili. Chili should be a vacant thought projected into an empty, white room with rounded corners.

[strawman !!9eSatjbJatr No.15661341]

>>15660159
Amazing

[Anonymous No.15662324]

>>15644021
subhuman take

[Anonymous No.15662426]

>>15652954
It sounds like you're trying to reinvent mole. Maybe try adding some nuts.

[Anonymous No.15662920]

>>15647209
>>Looking for something that's cheap
lmao

[Anonymous No.15662936]

Based and Molepilled.

[Anonymous No.15664357]

>>15643814
Shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.15664871]

>>15643820
>faggot with a trip has a retarded opinion