One charitable woman posted a thread on Twitter about how she was going to make and deliver a pot of chili to her neighbors, a group of young men, according to the Washington Post.
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I know I opened up a can of worms with that caption, so let me just nip that shit in the bud.
You do not put beans in chili.
Let me say again, you do not put beans in chili.
One more time - YOU DO NOT PUT BEANS IN CHILI!!!
Chili without beans is BORING. All the best chili has beans in it.
ReplyDeleteNo, chili does not have beans in it. Your mother lied to you. She was feeding you beans with meat in it.
DeleteIf memory serves me well, according to the International Chili Association, beans, can in fact, be in a chili. But who knows, maybe they too have become infected with this nonsense. Idiocy is contagious.
ReplyDeleteThe minority calling "sloppy joe" a chili, are correct as well, but usually need some pampering, "There there, tell me where the bad bean touched you."
Meh. What does the International Chili Association know about chili? They need more Mexicans on that board.
DeleteMake chili in the cast iron skillet, make beans in the dutch oven. Then you can either mix them together in your bowl as you serve yourself, or get 2 bowls and eat them separately. With a big helping of cornbread, of course.
ReplyDeleteMay I please put meat in my tomato sauce beans if I don't call it chili?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the real rule is whatever meat you use in your beany dishes is do not for the love of God chintz out and use ground meat. Buy decent cuts of beef and/or pork and mince it yourself to whatever consistency you like, I like mine quite coarse, then brown it separately from the beans and add it last so it isn't horribly over cooked.
Kinda like using ground beef for taco meat, huh? That shit's nasty.
DeleteBoth are an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
Agree on both counts.
DeleteMy beans are black & slow-cooked with lentils & the rest of the holiday ham (Not crazy about turkey; had turkey every concievable way growing up) & some asst. spices.
When everything cooks off the bone, it's ready.
I always freeze half of it, because it doesn't last long.
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Chili with beans is chili con carne. I had a roommate's girlfriend make chili and put butternut squash in it. She had spiced it up enough that it took three beers to cool the fire while eating a bowl.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, you should be sweating after your third bite.
Delete"con carne" means with meat.
DeleteI'm with Kenny on this one. I absolutely can not stand beans in chili. They do not belong there. If you're putting beans in chili then you might as well put noodles and rice in too because you are making some kind of goulash.
ReplyDeleteMy brother from a different mother!
DeleteChuck roast yup, beans nope. I always thought of chili as a kind of a thick stew.
ReplyDeleteA thick spicy stew. God bless you, my Friend.
Deleteand i suppose you NEVER put cheese in your chilli?? or serve a pipping hot bowel of chilli with a fresh cinnimon roll?? son, you need to expand your horizons and open your mind to new possabilities. just because YOU have never done it dosen't mean it can't be done, and just because YOU don't like it dosen't mean it isn't good.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, I don't understand what cheese in chili has to do with no beans in chili. My wife adds cheese to her chili, I don't.
DeleteAnd no, I've never tried chili with a cinnamon roll - I don't like cinnamon.
Yep. I knew a guy that won a chili cook off once. It was at a winter festival. No beans in the pot of chili that the judges get. The chili that he served to the public later, contained beans. He said he only added beans "to feed the masses"...
DeleteI wish you would have told that to my father 60 years ago. Totally agree with you and might have liked chili.
ReplyDeleteI'd say the moral of the story isn't "no good deed voes unpunished".
ReplyDeleteInstead, it's "stay the f##k off twitter".
Now I gotta go, all this chili talk's making me hungry.
-lg
I put beans in my chili. The resultant farts are nothing short of lethal.
ReplyDeleteChili without beans is no fun....Texans don't use beans....the rest of the country, for the most part, seems to add the gassious mixture to one degree or the other....call it filler, or call it a needed part of the recipe, i like it both ways....chopped green onions on top, occasionally sprinkled with shredded sharp cheddar, my take on chili is it is a conglomeration of whatever one has on hand at the time....and yes, including beans....I suppose there are those staid, stiff upper lip folks who have a written recipe on hand at all times....I like the adventure of a freestyle creation....you know, Forrest Gump Chili...."You never know what you are gonna' get"....
DeleteAdd a little ginger, and I mean a little it can overtake the whole flavor but it helps keep the facts away.
Deletenoncom - that's because the rest of the country doesn't know how to make chili.
DeleteAnd my chili is freestyle.
Yes, you do.
ReplyDeleteNo. No, you not. I bet you don't add habanero sauce or chilies to it either.
DeleteChili con carne...
ReplyDeleteYes! "Chili with meat" is the correct translation, and according to Willie Nelson,
Deleteit was "being sold on the streets of San Antonio BEFORE the Alamo, and was simply a way to make tough string beef taste good" However, a bowl of beans on the side is allowable, along with a bowl of chopped onions and all the soda crackers you can eat.
(he also mentions his disgust for "all the foreign objects" that have found their way into chili....)
Fifth generation Texan, beans or no beans, you have a Constitutional right.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Everybody's got a Right to be wrong, even if includes putting beans in your chili. Just don't serve it to me.
DeleteI am willing to taste either if well seasoned, but tomatoes in clam chowder is an offence in the eyes of God.
ReplyDeleteTurned on the pc on the way to fix breakfast so it would be warmed up n ready to go. when i got back, i find this article to dine by.
ReplyDeletemy breakfast ?... a big assed plate of chili n eggs w sourdough toast.
im thinkin i neeed to get a lotto ticket
for breakfast like this, i just use a can of 'Wolf Brand' NO BEANS.
By the bowl style eatin chili tho, is ALWAYS made from scratch. usually w stewed beef, chorizo, an ground turkey. (ground turkey gives the rue a texture i like) , but again, NO BEANS
Damn, I haven't had chili and eggs in a good long while.
DeleteWell, poor Mexicans do what they can to stretch things out in the kitchen. Beans in some form are common with every meal. They also tend to use the cheapest cuts of meat. (fajitas) I cant imagine any of them would turn their nose up at beans in chili.
ReplyDeleteDamned near every Mexican I know would. Eat the beans on the side if you want, but keep it the hell out of your chili.
DeleteBeans? Nah they create too much intestinal gas. For a good filler add a few handfulls of meal worms instead.
ReplyDeleteDon’t mind little old me. I’m just sitting here over in the corner eating my chili with no beans enjoying this dialogue. Kenny is right! My dad was a Texan, and beans never made it into our chili, nor his brothers and sisters chili either.
ReplyDeleteT.Rose
God bless you, your father and all of his immediate family.
DeleteWhat about the heathens in the frozen north who add macaroni, lima beans, and corn to their version? Then again, they keep sending brother fucker Omar to congress.
ReplyDeleteTHEY ADD WHAT???
DeleteOf course these are the same motherfuckers that eat mayonnaise on their french fries.
I think he means Mac&Cheese.
DeleteI suppose they add carrots to their chili too?
Deleteadmit it amigo. you did time in germany...you yourself tried mayo mit yer pommes fritts
DeleteNope. The only time I tried it was after I got out of the army, was drunk on tequila and just tried to whip that fucking rat at the Chuck E Cheese. It was a bad night all the way around.
DeleteChili without beans is the same as eating spaghetti without a sauce.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you're from the east coast and consider Taco Bell to be authentic Mexican food.
DeleteEast Coaster, yes. Do I consider Taco Bell serving authentic Mexican food? No. In fact I can't remember when I last set foot in one or have the desire to go to one in the future.
DeleteWell shit, you might as well go to Taco Bell. I hear they put beans in their chili. Probably sour cream too.
DeleteOoops. I do like a dollop of sour cream on top of my bean-filled chili.
DeleteYou should be shot.
DeleteGive up the recipe for best chili contest. I’d be interested in trying a new one.
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ReplyDeleteMr. Lane,
I thus implore you to visit the wonderful city of Cincinnati. Acutally, the city has become quite the hellhole, but visit the suburbs. Find a Skyline or Empress chili parlor. Do not eater a Gold Star. Ever.
You may there order things you may find to be of Hell.
But they are ambrosia to me. Chili, as adopted and modified by Serbia and Bosnia war refugees from WWI (Empress and Dixie), and later that Cincinnati Style was further modified by two Greek brothers (Skyline).
Chili. Flavored with cinnamon and many other spices. Some even say coco powder, although the owners of Skyline ardently deny the use of coco. Beans and onions are both acceptable toppings, along with a mass of shredded mild cheddar. Usually served over spaghetti or as a conys.
On second thought, never mind. You must be raised on that stuff to truly appreciate, or even understand it.
We always put beans in it. All of it, our "southwestern style," "Cincinnati style," and "northern style." Good filler and it's a better easier on old T1 diabetic me. The fiber in the beans slows down the absorption of sugar from the tomatoes.
-Just a Chemist
Championship chili cook off's state, IN THE RULES, no fillers in the chili. This includes beans, macaroni, rice, everything. Another rule is NO vegetables in the chili. Chili is ONLY meat and broth (thickened of course).
ReplyDeleteTo get the flavor of the onions and peppers we used, we would wrap them in cheesecloth.
When I make chili these days for myself/friends, I just throw the peppers and onions in and let them cook down. Meat is individual taste. I use cubed sirloin, ground venison and ground sirloin. Bowl of fine chopped onions to add as a topper and Ritz crackers as a side.
I always caramelize my onions and fire roast my peppers first and just mix them in.
DeleteI put beans in chili. Always have, always will.
ReplyDeleteMy personal favorite chili is the James Brady chili recipe from the 80s. I consider it to be the sole meaningful contribution that man made to the world in his lifetime.
ReplyDeleteHalf a cup of chili powder, 8 ounces of jalapenos, and not a bean in sight. It's been a family favorite for nearly four decades now.
Do you fire roast your jalapenos to really bring out the flavor of them?
DeleteSure you do put beans in, if not, just a meat soup.
ReplyDeleteIf it's watery enough that you can consider it soup, then you're really fucking it up.
DeleteIf it has beans it's not chili. "Chile Con Carne" (its true name, speak it with reverence) is chili peppers, beef (that turkey chili crap is an abomination), and a few other spices. It's good chili if the spoon will stand up in it, it's great chili if it'll dissolve the spoon. If you see someone putting ketchup in their chili, shoot them, it's the only merciful thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE YOU, MAN!!!
DeleteChili con carne, literally translated, means 'chili peppers with meat'. Beans are a staple part of the Central-South American diet, served separately. No beans in the chili, not in Texas anyway.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteFrom the Comments: Abraham Lincoln once said, If you call a tail a leg how many legs does a dog have? The answer is 4. Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
ReplyDeleteA few more months of Liberal Democrats and we will all be hoping to put the beans we grew into everything and understand why beans are superior and the best thing ever domesticated by man. Mexican food only wishes it was as good.
ReplyDeleteIf it's your chili, put whatever the hell you want in it. Nobody else cares - or should care.
ReplyDeleteYeah! Sounds like greenies talking about global warming.
DeleteChili without beans is chili (chili con carne).
ReplyDeleteIf you add beans it becomes "chili with beans" and is legally required to be labeled as such when sold. The beans are not a part of the chili but an addition. An abominable addition as far as I am concerned.
REAL Chili doesn't have beans, tomatoes or ground meat. Just beef cubes, meat juice, onions, chilis (or pure chili powder - not that pre-mixed shit in the supermarket), and spices. Thicken it up with a little fine ground corn meal.
ReplyDeleteI do put a bowl of beans on the table for those who want them and serve with raw onions, grated cheese, and sour cream.
Well. Touched a nerve there, dintcha? 20 pages o' comments. Impressive.
ReplyDeleteI've made with and without beanz, and prefer without, myself. All I know is, when I took an industrial size slow cooker of chili to company pot-lucks, I never had to throw anything away after. So, there's that.
Yeah, I knew I'd get a nice rise when I posted it. We all had fun with it.
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