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1 lb hamburger
1 lb breakfast sausage
1 can pinto beans
1 can black beans
1 half of an onion fine
1 can petite diced tomato
1 can mild Rotel
1 can tomato sauce
1 sm can tomato paste
1 pig Williams Onion Chili Seasoning
2 tbs barbecue sauce
1 tbs steak sauce
1 tsp liquid smoke

My base recipe for myself:

3 lbs ground beef
6 bell peppers diced (multiple colors)
2 sweet onions diced
1 large can of diced tomatoes
2 cans of rotel (serrano or hot)
4 habaneros
1 cup dark brown sugar
Seasoning (3 packets of McCormick chili seasoning can do in a pinch),


Drain all canned food. Throw in a crock pot on low for 6-8 hours or overnight. Top with cheddar cheese and sour cream with cornbread on the side.


If using beans, I go down to 1-1.5 lbs beef, 3 bell peppers, and 1 onion. Add in 2 cans kidney beans, 2 cans chili beans, and then a large can of Bush's baked beans.


Adjust heat level to suit your tastes, but I like the brown sugar and habanero combination, as it's a delayed heat with sweet up front that makes you crave more.

 

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Pictures are from last week's chili and jalapeno corn bread.

 

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My base recipe for myself:

3 lbs ground beef
6 bell peppers diced (multiple colors)
2 sweet onions diced
1 large can of diced tomatoes
2 cans of rotel (serrano or hot)
4 habaneros
1 cup dark brown sugar
Seasoning (3 packets of McCormick chili seasoning can do in a pinch),


Drain all canned food. Throw in a crock pot on low for 6-8 hours or overnight. Top with cheddar cheese and sour cream with cornbread on the side.


If using beans, I go down to 1-1.5 lbs beef, 3 bell peppers, and 1 onion. Add in 2 cans kidney beans, 2 cans chili beans, and then a large can of Bush's baked beans.


Adjust heat level to suit your tastes, but I like the brown sugar and habanero combination, as it's a delayed heat with sweet up front that makes you crave more.

You're lucky. I live with someone with Barrett's Esophagus and have to make it as tame as I can. The RoTel is as far as I can go.

Years ago when I worked at Boeing, we had a Toys for Tots Chili Cookoff. 4 Marines were the judges. I made my "Widowmaker" chili...its a little hot, but its very subtle. I won for "Spiciest", the Marines loved it, but one of their relatives won Best Chili.

My co-workers all thought themselves "pepper bellies" and ate healthy portions. As the evening progressed, one by one throughout the shift they all passed my desk/tooling on the way to the shitter looking at me as if I had poisoned them. Good times.

 

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You're lucky. I live with someone with Barrett's Esophagus and have to make it as tame as I can. The RoTel is as far as I can go.

Years ago when I worked at Boeing, we had a Toys for Tots Chili Cookoff. 4 Marines were the judges. I made my "Widowmaker" chili...its a little hot, but its very subtle. I won for "Spiciest", the Marines loved it, but one of their relatives won Best Chili.

My co-workers all thought themselves "pepper bellies" and ate healthy portions. As the evening progressed, one by one throughout the shift they all passed my desk/tooling on the way to the shitter looking at me as if I had poisoned them. Good times.

Yeah, I love heat, but it still has to taste good. Not just be hot for the sake of being hot.

I've contributed to several cook offs and decide what category I want to go after. If they have a hotness category, then I'm pretty sure I could compete and still bring flavor. I've changed the recipe to go for best overall, as many just can't handle any spice, so like you, it isn't much more than rotel for most people.

Even then, it comes down to who is actually a friend/ relative garnering the votes. I actually do better in "blind" competitions, where no one can see the crock pots to recognize their friends.