Weak chili. If you can call it chili at all. Sugar? Really?
The basic real chili is a stew of meat and chili peppers (I usually have four or five different kinds, as a minimum), spiced with cumin, garlic, and oregano. Don’t use burger. Cut the meat up fine but it will have more character than burger which loses character. Onions are basic. Beans are an extender, and tomato is not required – but both are pretty much traditional. If you need to put hot sauce or chili powder of any sort for heat you’re making it wrong. Add some hotter chilis into your original prep… Oh. And it takes time to simmer and the flavors to meld together. It takes hours to make chili.
This is ersatz chili, for people who don’t know the real thing. It would probably be edible. It wouldn’t be chili… Too many people don’t know what chili is. Know a guy who thinks if you add a bottle of hot sauce to anything it magically become chili. No it doesn’t become chili anymore than it is magically transformed into a unicorn.
Weak chili. If you can call it chili at all. Sugar? Really?
The basic real chili is a stew of meat and chili peppers (I usually have four or five different kinds, as a minimum), spiced with cumin, garlic, and oregano. Don’t use burger. Cut the meat up fine but it will have more character than burger which loses character. Onions are basic. Beans are an extender, and tomato is not required – but both are pretty much traditional. If you need to put hot sauce or chili powder of any sort for heat you’re making it wrong. Add some hotter chilis into your original prep… Oh. And it takes time to simmer and the flavors to meld together. It takes hours to make chili.
This is ersatz chili, for people who don’t know the real thing. It would probably be edible. It wouldn’t be chili… Too many people don’t know what chili is. Know a guy who thinks if you add a bottle of hot sauce to anything it magically become chili. No it doesn’t become chili anymore than it is magically transformed into a unicorn.
(And I’ve won ribbons for mine.)