AR’s First Annual Chili Cookoff….Let The Bickering Begin!

[glitchy]

The wife wanted chili today…so: Click Wagyu ground, no bean, hatch chilies chili. Sorry no prep pics as I threw it together between meetings.

[Andrrr]

I have been known to eat bowls of chili like a dip using frito scoops. It’s such a guilty pleasure but they are made for each other.

[holehogg]

Beautiful.

[Elton's BBQ]

Looks really good!!

[FireMan]

In the spirit of two other posts, I,didn’t make chili when ya’ll wanted to make chili cuz I’m not letting any body tell me what time to make chili. I make it when I want to make it. I did my best to imitate Troutman ‘s Texas Red. A few twists though, no fancy meat, 4 lbs of “stewing beef”, 1 1/4 lb oh hot Italian sausage, 1 1/4 lb of 90/10 ground sirloin. All meats did not have a Japanese name to it. I substituted New Mexican chili powder fer all the powders & the jalapeños were substituted with home grown seranos. No IPA beer either, I used Heineken 0/0 & drained two on the side whilst cookin. Hat off to Troutman. This is some good chili AND fer the first time in my life, no beans.

[CHNeal]

Well played indeed! I’d eat a big bowl or two of that.

[CaptainMike]

Lookin' good FireMan!

[Elton's BBQ]

Now that's a good looking chilli!

[mrichie1229]

A great use of leftover brisket...Chunked it and tossed in black beans, tomatoes, onions, and mix of bell and poblano peppers along with some tomato sauce, and spices. Great chili on a cold Minnesota day!

[hoovarmin]

Nice!

[Bogy]

Looks great. On Sunday when I told people at church that I was going to use leftover brisket from my chili some of them were aghast that leftovers from what they had just enjoyed would be used that way. 😂

[fzxdoc]

Nothing not to like. Congrats on doing such a good job.

Kathryn

[efincoop]

Hi Everyone, I had an opportunity to make my chili last night (thanks Panhead John ) and wanted to add my cook to the thread. I already know I won't be a serious contender because I used beans. But hey, I grew up in the Northeast, so what the heck to I know about chili

Anyway I present to you my entry, Triple Treat (Meat) Durango Chili!


Beef, bison & venison prepped.

Meat seasoned

Everything loaded on the Weber. I used Fogo lump with oak chunks.

Rendering down my home cured bacon.


Browning the meat.

Veggies off the cooker and ready for the food processor.


Adding another layer of flavor.


Finished product!

[holehogg]

Oh yes!

[fzxdoc]

Great photo montage. It made me really hungry. Nice work!

Kathryn

[treesmacker]

Beans, contender, YES!

[Jim White]

Okay, since the thread has been extended.



That's it. Those are the ingredients for vegan sweet potato black bean chili. We had my wife's students over this evening. I made the vegan chili (half or more of her students these days are vegan or vegetarian) and we had some of last week's chili I made with a chuck roast (and beans). It was a hectic, last minute cook on the vegan chili this afternoon, so the only finished picture I have is this sloppy one showing the vegan chili in the black Lodge enameled cast iron and the last bit of beef chili in the Misen stainless pan. A sampling of some of the dishes from the students line the far counter.



There was very little of either one left over.

[Bogy]

Panhead John that would depend on what kind of tuna it is. Canned, steak?

[Red Man]

What kind of beans go best in tuna chili? I’m thinking probably lima beans.

[WayneT]

I’d eat that several times! Well done!

[Elton's BBQ]

Finally.. my take on a chilli..
Ingridients:
Beefstrips
Carrot, celery, red/yellow onion, paprika, garlic
spices
Tomatopaste, 3x cans of crushed tomatoes
can 'o beer
Water
Black beans
Garnished with springonions, corn , jalapeno, mozzarella and sour cream.. tortillachips on the side.

[Panhead John]

Only thing missing was the sweet potatoes!
😉

[holehogg]

No ghost chillies.

[Elton's BBQ]

Thanks Jim White Panhead John holehogg
Regarding Ghostpepper... there were other who wanted to eat so i was not allowed..

[texastweeter]

Whelp, just put two more deer in the freezer, will be more chili soon.

[texastweeter]

WayneT only 2 kinds of gold on our property, yellow pine, and black gold.

[DogFaced PonySoldier]

It just blows my mind how people can afford land. I get most of it is passed gen to gen - and I can't afford a half million just to get in the game. <sigh> $5k/acre for undeveloped, no utilities and hardly accessible land here is considered a super great deal. It's crazy, I almost despair I will ever have the opportunity...

[Bogy]

texastweeter and DogFaced PonySoldier not all land is created equal. 17K acres is a huge spread. But what is land going for in your area per acre? Around where I am, and where my family farmed for 150 years land goes from $12,000 to $25,000 per acre. But Iowa farmland is different than Texas grazing land. I only know a couple of people who own more than 10,000 acres here in Iowa, and they can't farm that much all by themselves.

[WayneT]

I had taken several pix of my chili making ingredients and process but, alas, my iPhone and PC decided to not play well together and I lost the pix. So, instead of a fully illustrated report, all I have is the executive summary. (Did I just hear a collective sigh of relief?)


Ingredients: 125F IT smoked pork neck meat and smoked chuck, both of which were coarse ground by moi which totaled about 1 lb. Also, another 14 oz of smoked, pulled chuck fully cooked to 196F IT on the smoker. Bacon, green pepper, yellow pepper, yellow onion, garlic, fire-roasted tomatoes, jalapeños, beer, and…oh, yeah, three kinds of beans. Spices were, cayenne pepper, chili powder, red pepper flakes, paprika, salt, and black pepper.


Served up with obligatory cheddar and sour cream.

After all the additional work of fire-roasting fresh tomatoes, soaking and boiling dry beans and grinding my own meat, this chili wasn’t noteworthy for me. The beans especially were lacking something compared to chili made with canned beans. I’ll have to check out the ingredient list on those canned beans.

Finis.

[DogFaced PonySoldier]

Looks great!

[CHNeal]

Yep looks great!

[Clawbear57]

+3

[Arsenlael]

I’ll just assume if you’re spelling it “chili” then you are already losing the cookoff. 😂😂😂

[Mosca]

Well, chiles are chili peppers…. But the chiles they grow in Chile are not used in chili.

[Clark]

Mosca Your comment is getting a chilly reception.

[Mosca]

Clark They use aji amarillo from Peru. Our son-in-law’s parents grow them in pots on their patio. You can buy them pickled, or as a paste in a jar. Very bright and forward taste and heat.

[Uncle Bob]

There is no end to the abomination wrought by bean people......

[ofelles]

It is way to early to have seen this!!🤮

[treesmacker]

ofelles - agreed. I'm not sure I should have clicked the like button... I hovered over it for quite some time before liking for ingenuity.

[mnavarre]

Bean twinkies are right out.