Debate...

[Little Joe]

I have never figured out what the big deal is about boiled crawfish. To me it's too much work for that little bit of meat. I can make myself sick on boiled shrimp, however.

Then you ain't ever eat any crawdads that were cooked right and if you think it's alot of work to peel them you've never been taught how to because I can peel and eat 5-10 lbs like nobody's business.

 

[Little Joe]

 

[Little Joe]

We gather around in a circle and put a kiddy pool in the middle to throw all the shells and corn cobs in.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I think this thread can be summed up with if it suits you and you like it so be it.

 

[shaz]

I think this thread can be summed up with if it suits you and you like it so be it.

still haven't defined what "real" chili is though

 

[Rafter S]

still haven't defined what "real" chili is though

I have it defined. Anyone who disagrees is just wrong.

 

[SBMF 2015]

I have it defined. Anyone who disagrees is just wrong.

I'm still lost. You said chilli has to have chunks of beef or venison, no beans, and no vegetables. So your telling me that real chilli is just a cut up steak?

 

[callmefence]

I'm still lost. You said chilli has to have chunks of beef or venison, no beans, and no vegetables. So your telling me that real chilli is just a cut up steak?

Real chili is beef , course ground is ok imo. A sauce ( tomato based sometimes)and spices.
Absolutely no beans or pasta. I can't imagine why anyone would eat pasta at all...but that's a different debate.
I hope this helps.

 

[Rafter S]

I'm still lost. You said chilli has to have chunks of beef or venison, no beans, and no vegetables. So your telling me that real chilli is just a cut up steak?

I didn't say no vegetables (at least I don't think I did). It's not just a cut up steak. You need onions, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and probably some other stuff. My wife makes it, so I don't have a complete recipe.

 

[Son of Butch]

I didn't say no vegetables. It's not just a cut up steak.
You need onions, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and probably some other stuff.

Don't forget, to be chili it needs the key ingredient of Chili Powder/chili peppers.
Ingredients listed on my bottle of chili powder: Chili peppers, paprika, red pepper, parsley and carrot oil/resins.

 

[Son of Butch]

After reading this entire thread, i still do not know what constitutes, quote, "real chili."

Chili Powder/chili peppers

 

[callmefence]

Here's what real chili looks like.

True Texas Chili

This Texas classic doesn't include beans or tomatoes, only beef, homemade chile paste, and a few flavorings.

www.epicurious.com

 

[shaz]

Chili Powder/chili peppers

Jalapenos. I've had too many chili peppers that tasted like nothing.

 

[Ebenezer]

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Now I'm hungry!

 

[Rafter S]

Jalapenos. I've had too many chili peppers that tasted like nothing.

Jalapenos aren't the only pepper with some heat. I prefer cayennes.

 

[Chevy]

After reading this entire thread, i still do not know what constitutes, quote, "real chili." i always thought it was predominantly beans, some meat, and if the person was weird, chunks of tomatoes

Grease meat chili powder

Apparently it's now vegetables taco chili soup.

Well I've learned from this debate my version of chili is fake chili. Apparently, people have definitely ideas of chili in different areas. What's real chili I guess is whatever you make it. It's all whatever you want it to be its your life your chili. Your body your chili!

 

[Chevy]

Jalapenos aren't the only pepper with some heat. I prefer cayennes.

I just go get all the hot peppers at the grocery. It confuses most the cashiers on how to ring them up.

We bought fresh celery the other day, the cashier looked at it, than asked, "aaaa what is that?" CELERY!!! I'd understand all the different peppers and different vegetables and fruits when you get in to jackfruit, passion fruit, ect. But celery? A grow up now knowing what celery is. Wow that's weird to me. Than again I don't know all this phones, apps, ect. But I know celery. As I always say I'm old school. I could care clue about having 100 apps

 

[greybeard]

Don't forget, to be chili it needs the key ingredient of Chili Powder/chili peppers.
Ingredients listed on my bottle of chili powder: Chili peppers, paprika, red pepper, parsley and carrot oil/resins.

Separately, add cilantro & ground Comino.
But, Ground chile (with a 'e' on the end) powder is just that. Dried ground up chile peppers. Nothing added. I said peppers (plural) for a reason. There are different kinds of chile peppers and chile powdwers are labeled as to what species is used. Sometimes a blend of different types but never any other non chile pepper spices added to chile powder. I like arbol, ancho or guachillo.
All chile pepper is a fruit, not a veggie.

Chili (spelled with 2 'i's) powder (store bought mix of many spices) is for folks that don't know how to cook and blend the different spices and want someone in faraway places in some corporate setting to do it in some plant for them.

If you just have to use a mix, Wick Fowler's 2 alarm is not bad. (He was co-champion of the very 1st Terlingua chili cookoff in 1967 and won it outright twice more) Carrol Shelby was one of the founders of that cookoff, as he owned over 200,000 acres in Brewster county. (If you don't know who Carrol Shelby is, you're dead inside)

Chili, the dish, is all about flavors but too many believe it's all about heat. It's not, it's all about blending spices and meat. Any fool can make something hot.

 

[Rafter S]

I just go get all the hot peppers at the grocery. It confuses most the cashiers on how to ring them up.

We bought fresh celery the other day, the cashier looked at it, than asked, "aaaa what is that?" CELERY!!! I'd understand all the different peppers and different vegetables and fruits when you get in to jackfruit, passion fruit, ect. But celery? A grow up now knowing what celery is. Wow that's weird to me. Than again I don't know all this phones, apps, ect. But I know celery. As I always say I'm old school. I could care clue about having 100 apps

A few years ago I was standing in line at my usual breakfast taco place when the guy in front of me, who looked to be even whiter than I am, pointed at the bin full of diced up cilantro and told the lady behind the counter "Put a bunch of that parsley on my taco." I just let him go, but I've often wondered what he thought when he bit into his taco and got a mouthful of that "parsley".

 

[Son of Butch]

Carrol Shelby was one of the founders of that cookoff, as he owned over 200,000 acres in Brewster county. (If you don't know who Carrol Shelby is, you're dead inside)

or under 40
Shelby's heyday was in the '60s and muscle cars of the '70s although I guess he was a consultant on the Dodge Viper.