How to Make Chili for the Chili Haters
Didn't I Just Feed You
Stacie Billis and Meghan Splawn
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A classic American dish, chili is not just one thing: there are as many variations as they are places where chili is eaten. Among its many virtues, chili is hearty, nutritious, packed with flavor, and can be made in a big batch, making it a perfect family meal — except when someone in your family is a chili hater. In that case, we’ve got help!
Links From This Episode
- Our What We’re Cooking and Eating Now episode with Bailey Walton
- Our episode Spice up Your Family’s Food with Chief Spice Mama, Kanchan Koya
- Acid League Smoked Malt Vinegar
- How to Make the Easiest Turkey Chili
- Our White Chicken Chili recipe
- Our All the Cans Chili recipe
- Stacie’s Green and White Chicken Chili Verde from her Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner cookbook
- Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner: 50 Winning Ways to Cook It Up!
- Alton Brown’s Chili Con Carne
- Cincinnati Chili recipe
- Copycat Skyline Chili recipe
- I Tried 4 Famous Vegetarian Chili Recipes and the Easiest Was Also the Best
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| 0:00.0 | Your best chili is going to be the chili that gets to cook longer |
| 0:10.3 | because it really like breaks down the meat, |
| 0:14.5 | it gets tender, and you really extract all that fat in goodness and flavor. |
| 0:21.6 | There's a misconception, I think. |
| 0:23.6 | Once ground meat is cooked, it's cooked, and that's what it is. |
| 0:26.6 | You can stop there, but actually there are benefits to cooking it longer. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to didn't I just feed you. |
| 0:32.6 | A podcast about feeding kids. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi, I'm Megan. |
| 0:39.0 | And I'm Stacy. |
| 0:40.6 | Today's episode isn't just about how to make chili. |
| 0:44.1 | We're also talking about how to make chili or the haters. |
| 0:50.0 | Are there chili haters? |
| 0:51.6 | I mean, I guess there are. |
| 0:53.2 | I know. |
| 0:53.8 | We work hard to be inclusive. And so I guess we have to talk about the chili haters. I have literally blocked them out of my life. I can't. I don't know. I'm kidding. Guys, I'm kidding. Phyllis is out here blocking the haters. Listen, listen. Okay. We know that some of you have kids are partners that are picky about certain things, |
| 1:12.9 | and chili is probably one of those things for some of y'all. So we want to offer some helpful |
| 1:17.6 | suggestions so that you can make a pot of chili, have what you want to eat, and feed everybody |
| 1:24.4 | without having to cook a whole other dinner unless that's what you feel like doing. |
| 1:28.3 | Which that's cool too, permission slip to make two dinners if you're up for it. |
| 1:32.7 | Before we get into all that and talk about how to block the haters, apparently, |
| 1:39.1 | a quick reminder that this is the last week to complete our listener survey. |
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