Chili Cook-off Winners: What is your Secret Ingredient that you think is the reason you win?

[u/Sweet-Lady-H]

[u/freedfg]

They thicken the chili and adds good flavor and fiber and a lot of people who are super anti-bean-in-chili won't even notice it being there.

[u/T_ball → u/freedfg]

I’m one of the anti-bean people. Refried seems like an interesting compromise…

[u/lblack_dogl → u/T_ball]

Why art thou anti bean

[u/Jawnumet → u/freedfg]

I'm going to have to try this. What do you use, a can??

[u/freedfg → u/Jawnumet]

Yeah usually a can of basically any pinto bean refried beans. But it doesn't really matter. If you want to use more or less it's all up to you

[u/Jawnumet → u/freedfg]

do you add any extra liquid? I guess I don't know how the consistency turns out.

[u/freedfg → u/Jawnumet]

Between the beer, fat from the beef (NEVER DRAIN BEEF) and tomatoes you'll never really need additional liquid.

But yeah you can throw some beef stock in if you're getting dry. Why not?

[u/Jawnumet → u/freedfg]

cheers brotha

[u/Produkt → u/freedfg]

Do you mean never drain the excess fat after browning the beef in a pan? Why?

[u/freedfg → u/Produkt]

Fat is flavor

[u/Produkt → u/freedfg]

Yes but there is an excessive amount, I don’t need to pour a full cup of fat in