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My sister told me my chili was just tomato soup with beans lol
She said I wasn't browning the meat or using any actual chili powder, just dumping cans into a pot. I started toasting whole dried chiles and searing the meat in batches, and now it actually tastes like chili instead of soup. Has anyone else had a family member call them out on a basic cooking mistake like that?
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andrew_baker912d ago
Man, I feel you on that "worth it though" part caleb_bell5. I did the same thing with my first batch of ancho chiles, filled the whole kitchen with smoke, and my wife came running in thinking the house was on fire. But honestly, that little bit of char gave the chili this deep, smoky flavor that no store-bought powder could ever touch. I spent way too long scrubbing the ceiling with vinegar water, but every time someone takes a bite and says it tastes legit, it feels worth the chaos. Did the smoke alarm incident at least make your chili taste better in the end?
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caleb_bell512d ago
Burnt my first batch of chiles so bad the smoke alarm went off (worth it though).
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jessica33112d ago
Oh come on, burnt is burnt. You know you can just buy a bag of decent dried chiles at the store and skip the whole fire drill, right? I get wanting to do it yourself, but if your smoke alarm is going off, that's not "toasted," that's cremated. Next time you might end up with a kitchen full of smoke and chiles that taste like ash. A little char is one thing, but setting off alarms just sounds like a headache for zero payoff. Was it really worth scrubbing the ceiling and airing out the whole house?
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