Do you like chili?

Question

If you do you like it hot, mild or reaally hot.

Answer 1

Really hot, I like chili, chili sauce with fried tacos and mexican food.

Answer 2

Well I'm from Texas..yes I do..but chili is probably not what you have really eaten..the spices, yes, it was cooked properly only with ground beef..REAL chili is a chunked beef and not ground..we have major chili cook offs here in Texas as well, I worked washing dishes when 11 years old at a place next to our house called "the Chili House"..and this is where I began knowing this...
http://www.chilicookoffspi.com/

and chili dont have beans lol
Texas Style Choo Choo Chili Recipe
If You've got some time and want to make a true "Texas Style" Chili, use a diced sirloin or top round. Brown the meat, add the ingredients like above, but Leave out the beans. Simmer for 2 or more hours, until tender. You'll need more liquid too! Add water as needed.

Accounts of chili date as far back as 1618. It was in that year, as Southwest American Indian legend tells it, that Sister Mary Agreda of Spain appeared to them in a vision and wrote down a recipe that called for antelope or venison, tomatoes, onions, and chile peppers. It’s worth noting that the Sister never physically visited America. Could this have been the first chili?

A little over a century later, in 1731, a group of families left the Spanish Canary Islands, on King Philip V of Spain’s orders, and settled in what is now San Antonio. Historians tell us that the women of the group made a spicy Spanish stew. What is chili, if not spicy stew?

Linda Stradley of the What’s Cooking in America website, mentions that some Spanish priests were said to have been wary of the chile pepper, believing that the hot peppers inspired passion and were aphrodisiacs. Many a sermon was preached against eating the demon pods.

In 1850, chili hit the Texas trail when trail cooks made concoctions of dried beef, fat, pepper, salt, and chile peppers, creating the first chili mix. This blend was formed into bricks that could be boiled in pots along the trail, whether for cowboys in Texas, or adventurers headed to California seeking gold and fortune.

Note that none of the blends above have mentioned the use of chili powder. That little miracle was the invention of William Gebhardt, a German immigrant living in New Braunfels, Texas. In 1890, he made the first chili powder to sell commercially in the United States. It is interesting to note that Gebhardt, in 1911, wrote the first Mexican cookbook to be sold in the Untied States.

By the turn of the 20th Century, chili joints began to spring up in San Antonio, eventually spreading westward. They gained in popularity during the Depression Era, as they offered cheap, if not always good, chili and free crackers.

Answer 3

I love chillies.
Mild or hot or very hot depends on the mood I am in or the occasion and sometimes the type of food. Some food is only good with a little chillies because it may be meant to be more of the other tastes (for example - pizza is not good too hot as I want to taste the cheese and the other meat on it, but Thai papaya salad "som tum" - yeah.... the hotter the better)

But I DO love really hot food - BRING IT ON!

Answer 4

I really do love chili, but like pcbeachrat I am particular about my chili, and dont usually eat it unless ive made it.by the way thanks Pcbeachrat for all your info.very interesting.
my love of chili began with my dad, he made chili most often from deer and antelope, and was as pc described,a thick meat stew rich and full of chili ,garlic,cumin and oregano.
I was suprised the first time to find beans in chili.id been spoiled by my dads .
here in the north chili seems to be more about the beans and less about the meat and quite often hot but not flavorfull.
over the years ive developed my own method of chili that fits my tastes.
I make both red and green chilis that have won cooking contests.(not bragging) cause im sure that somewhere else (likeTexas) they wouldnt like my style.but here they do.
and it is possible to make a good chili with ground meat and it doesnt hurt to add beans once in awhile.as long as the base of your chili is meat.
one of the things that used to bother me about other peoples chili was that it lacked depth of flavor.here in the north it was either this greasy thin sauce that fried your taste buds off so you couldnt taste anything or it was tangy like bar-b que without the sugar.
if you e-mail me i,ll gladly share my recipe for either but its too long for here.
hint? mole pablano.
love chili! I prefer medium hot ,the kinda hot that you dont notice at first cause o fthe other flavors then wham your hair starts to itch and you have this warm glow inside .
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Answer 5

I love chili especially Zippys Chili mmmm. And I like mild to hot :-) Sometimes I enjoy putting corn in my chili. Mmm Chili con corne lol

Answer 6

Yes I love chili, Regular Chili or Hot Dog chili both have to be Hot...

Answer 7

Yes, if its made right i actually love it...
i don't like it too spicy, so i go for mild allthough i am aware of chili not being a real chili if its not spicy...
so...

Answer 8

I would like to say that pcbeachrat gave a fabulous and informative run down on chilli. As an Australian person I don't know much about chilli. We have a restraunt called Lone Star and they serve chilli made with ground beef - its ok but then I read how Chilli is not made from ground beef and I think its sounds like it would taste better. Great information thanks

Answer 9

I like my chili really hot and spicy.

Answer 10

yep. love it.
hotness depends on the food. if its not supposed to be spicy, i would like just a little chilli, so that it dosent cover the actual flavour and taste of the dish.