Can You Use Canned Chili in A Chili Cookin' Contest?

I use it as starter. I also add a lot of other stuff because you can't just use canned chili to make chili.

Shut up, Naomi!

Only if you include pubes and chopped up parents.

[quote]Can You Use Canned Chili in A Chili Cookin' Contest?

If you'd like to lose.

OP, use the chili beans in gravy. I buy Bush's Chili Hot Beans. Usually add two cans to my own basic chili recipe.Oh.And put a bit of brown sugar into the chili when you're almost finished cooking it. You'll win.

that ain't cooking, it's heating

Well two of you are wise.

No... it's a cooking contest. Not a can-opening contest.

Sharing my recipe for chicken soup. You’re welcome.

Beer and fritos.

r10

OK now I just know one of you has tried this. Is it good?

Chili comes in cans?

Lesbians never used canned chili. It's unwholesome and anti-Lesbian.

R12 loves his pasta in pasta broth.

Of course you cant use someone else's recipe ie canned chili in a cooking (recipe) contest, OP.

r12 uses tongs and a spider, r14.

Fresh ground beef, no canned stuff. I don't mind the canned stuff on something basic like chili dogs, but not in home made chili - especially if it's for a contest.

That said, it's not beneath me to use a pre-mixed packet of McCormick Chili Seasoning as a base to my chili. I look at it this way, the spices are going to be fresher than what I've got sitting around in my cupboard at any given time. And the particular blend and ratio of the spices in the packets are generally what I would have used any how. My only gripe is that they include wheat flour as a thickener, though it's not a main ingredient.

Oh and I always rinse my beans - not a fan of the gloppy liquid they come packed in.

R16 so there's no truth to the rumor that all McCormick's spices were made and packaged in 1977 and due to a massive inventory overrun, still being sold today with just the dates altered??

When I was younger I made the mistake of eating a can of Hormel Chili for lunch. Without going into detail I can tell you I never did that again. That stuff is meant to go on hot dogs by the spoonful, not in a bowl as a meal. *shudders*

I'm friends with an eldergay couple who make chili using homemade meatloaf. But it wasn't just any meatloaf, it's made with turkey thighs that they grind themselves into large chunks instead of finely ground meat. They chop up the meatloaf and throw in canned beans, molasses, canned chopped tomatoes, assorted seasonings (heavy on cayenne powder), fresh peppers, onions, and some other vegetable I can't remember. But instead of using a lot of salt they mix in some miso paste for the umami flavor, you can't taste the miso flavor at all.

True chili aficionados would never use ground beef. Nor beans, for that matter.

Amen, R20

It's different, using ground meat, r19, but I have this damned smoke alarm that goes off when I sear chunks of chuck. I find using ground meat a much less stressful way to make chili, but I do appreciate the aficionado difference. More important, I like the chili I make with ground chuck.

About 3 people got what this thread was referring to.

don't forget beef jerky

What is it referring to?

It was to mock people who think chili comes in cans, wasn't it?

No, it was a direct reference to the chili cookoff episode of "Mama's Family" where Mama, Naomi and Iola compete.

Oh, yeah. I watch that on a regular basis.

I'd be embarrassed to know that, r27.

[quote] Can You Use Canned Chili in A Chili Cookin' Contest?

Of course you can use canned chili! Just be sure to embellish it with acorns and pumpkin seeds.

And vodka, r30.

Does anyone else put sausage in their chili? Sometimes I do turkey or ground beef. I also put lots of onion, garlic, peppers, chili and usually a can of crushed tomatoes or sometimes paste. I like black or pinto beans. Corn is a sometimes addition.

I remember the first time I ever cooked chili. It was for my first husband, Tommy Lee, I was 17 years old at the time.....Ever since then every new man in my life has inspired a new ingredient. Rick just loved his beer nuts, Leonard was a fanatic about beef jerky, and George was a real frito freak.

I use all of those things except sausage and tomato paste, r32.

That’s not cooking; it’s assembling.

so, this is what Muriel has brought on this formerly fun site! THANKS SO MUCH! anyone have any traffic figures for the new and improved site?

We make ours with Venison.

It never occurred to me to add Bush's Chili to my own mix. Or to use packaged spices. I might try it.

Yes, OP, if you plan on losing going in.

I side with OP. The main ingredients in my award-winning chilli are Wendy's chilli, Digiorno frozen pizza food processed (thickens and gives body to the chilli), and chopped Slim Jims. I start by sautéeing a bag of frozen mixed Italian vegetables for that homemade and hearty taste.

I think as long as you are honest and own up to the addition, no harm no foul, though I adore R13 and her chutzpah! Reminds me of a rugby meatloaf cook-off, (mostly lesbians on the team) and the contest winner had procured and entered a store-bought loaf. She couldn't cook to save her own life, but was bright enough to recognise it.

Start a thread about trashy foods you love, OP.

As I said earlier, I'd never use canned chili (especially the kind with meat in it. Canned ground beef or "steak" is gross. But I have used Bush's Chili hot beans in sauce as part of my starter and it really tastes good when you add other stuff. I usually use three or four different kinds of beans. My chili always gets raves and no, I will not share the recipe.

I have also used tinned beans in chili sauce with great results R43. There are many good varieties available here in the States.

If you can't make chili from scratch, why bother at all?

R45, and if one can’t produce one’s own farm fresh butter, one shouldn’t show one’s face in society.

I only use Johnson's beans

Supposedly authentic chili has no beans and no tomatoes.

Hold up. A poster said chili shouldn't have meat. Now chili can't have tomatoes or beans? WTF is left?!

R32, not sausage, but I have used ground meatloaf mix on occasion (beef, pork, veal).

If you want it to parallel the classic Mexican dish of chile (spelled that way) colorado, it should just have chunks of beef or pork, and a red sauce made from chiles and other spices. No tomatoes.

[quote] Does anyone else put sausage in their chili?

What about breakfast sausage? Can you use a roll of breakfast sausage (like you do with lasagna)?

If this were a thread about an Italian dish, the outrage would have pushed it past 500 posts by now. What gives, DL? Why do you lack the same passion for authentic Tex Mex cuisine?

As if someone would open a thread asking if it's alright to start Marcella's Lasagne Bolognese with a can of Chef BoyArDee, r54.