Posted on 01/31/2022 3:17:16 PM PST by mylife
gotta admit up front: The title of this article is somewhat misleading. Yes, we will discuss chili, and yes, it's the best chili I personally have ever made.
But! To call something "the best chili ever" implies that the recipe is perfect, and perfection implies that there is no room for improvement. I can only hope that others will continue perfecting the chili work that began on the Tex-Mex border, and that I continue testing, well after the last rich and spicy remnant is licked clean off the bottom of the bowl. With that disclaimer out of the way, let's move on to the testing.
My first step was to set up some parameters that would define the ultimate chili. Certainly, there are disputes in the chili world as to what makes the best. Ground beef or chunks? Are tomatoes allowed? Should we even mention beans? But I think we can all agree on a few things.
The ultimate chili should:
Have a rich, complex chile flavor that combines sweet, bitter, hot, fresh, and fruity elements in balance. Have a robust, meaty, beefy flavor. Assuming that it contains beans, have beans that are tender, creamy, and intact. Be bound together by a thick, deep-red sauce.
To achieve these goals, I decided to break down the chili into its distinct elements—the chiles, the beef, the beans, and the flavorings—perfecting each one before putting them all together in one big happy pot.
The Chiles: this important, as is the meat, i add beef chorizo as well
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I like chili both without beans or with dark kidney beans
And a hint of clove powder...
Tennessee is more bean chili than Texas
It’s like Texas beef bbq or Deep South pork bbq
I like both..
Felix or Acme
Good choice to make
A luxury problem to have like an old flame always said
“Elbow macaroni’s eh.... small or large?”
whichever is on hand :)
My dad called it chili - so’s I call it chili :)
had to look that up as I didn’t know that one...I suppose it’s similar.
Hamburger or whichever meat is on hand ground or diced, tomato soup, beans, onions, macaroni, diced bell peppers....lots of chili powder, garlic, some salt, fair amount of pepper....he added sugar, but I don’t prefer it sweet so I drop the sugar.
Mark for later
That is true but Terlingua is the Super Bowl.
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