How do you like your chili?

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I’ve seen these threads get wild, seems people are serious about the chili they eat. so… beans or no beans.

  • Beans
  • No Beans

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I don’t mind a small amount of beans but like mine with a lot of meat. Venison makes the best chili.

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define beans

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any kind I suppose.

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any bean but kidney - no

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If it comes in a can, with beans. Homemade however, NO beans.

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I voted beans but that is with ground meat if I take a roast and make real chilli then no beans.

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Prefer no beans but I don’t discriminate … unless it’s venison.

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I like beans, lots of meat and a lot of spice. Usually cut up a few jalepenos and throw in the seeds. Ghost peppers are even better

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Chili on hotdogs, NO BEANS!!
Chili as a meal, BEANS!

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Seems racist

Chili dogs are awesome. As are chili burgers.

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As with many things I’m opinionated on this. But I never heard of a controversy of beans or no beans. With me it’s tomatoes or no tomatoes. The original as made on the wagon trains never used tomatoes so I generally don’t either. My fav’ is a very spicy meaty sauce and beans, that’s it, no tomatoes. If it contains tomatoes it’s soup and no longer chili IMO. Serving it on rice is just an abomination.

I agree LWMc, as a hotdog sauce, no beans.

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Neither had I

I do love some venison chili,

and you can’t put enough chili powder in

I love chili cook offs

my wife puts the entire garden in, squash included

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I like wendys

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In Wisconsin some put macaroni noodles in it

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No beans for me please im gassy enough as is :dash: :rofl::rofl:
Bison chili no beans, homemade :+1::+1:is my favorite!

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Them gotta be democrats. :astonished: :rofl:

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Or its got to be goulash

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If you can keep a secret I’ll give you my easy ultimate ‘hot dog’ chili recipe(actually owned a cart for a few years)…

Brown 2lb of ground beef(don’t waste venison on hot dog chili) in a cast iron skillet, breaking up the grounds as fine as possible with a spatula, drain the fat and put meat into slow cooker.

Add-
16oz pureed salsa of your choosing(from mild Newman’s own to CaJohns Reaper super hot).
4tbs of cayenne chili powder(adjust to heat tolerance).
Water(or beer :+1:) to bring liquid barely to top of meat.

Cover and let cook on low for 5-6hrs, breaking up meat with spatula every hour or so, add 2-3tbs corn flour masa to thicken(stir after each tbs until preferred consistency is reached) and serve.

I actually had 2 different chili’s on the cart, mild and atomic. Both were made with mild salsa as a base but the salsa that went into the atomic had ghost peppers(whole, just the stem removed) added before pureeing.

Also, if you’re going to make ‘dirty water’ cart style dogs you need to do them right. Use Sabrett’s and only natural casings. Natural casings give you that ‘snap’ when you bite into them, others(no casing/cellulose casings) won’t do it. Only cook the dogs in water long enough to heat them through and only as many as you are going to eat. DON’T let them sit in the water(carts/trucks use a separate steam box to hold ‘rethermalized’ dogs unless they’re busy).

For water, add a beef bullion cube before bringing to a boil(then reduce to a simmer and add dogs). ‘Dirty water’ dogs get their name because the water is brownish from having dogs go through it all day. The first batch of dogs can absolutely SUCK because all their flavor went into the water. Supersaturating with bullion eliminates that issue.

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yeah I figure the macaroni was a dutch/save some $ thing idk but I like it better without. Some of the best chili ever I’ve had is from church chili suppers in WI though - haven’t had some like that in a while. There are probably a couple people at church who could do it well. Wife made some with baked and blended kidney beans once and that was good - Beans are a texture thing for me - refried or blended they are better. I like hummus - the fancy ‘bean dip’. but I also more recently can tolearate beans if done right like in Wendys - some of the best fast food is their chili and baked potato imho

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