I like beans and see no reason not to use them. I generally rotate between Black, Kidney, Cannellini, and Garbanzo (pick 3).
I don't care all that much about keeping "traditional" foods, if it makes them taste inferior (pineapple on pizza makes me sick because I don't like heavy pineapple taste).
Right on. I'm a three bean, three meat, three pepper chili man myself. Black kidney and pinto, beef pork and venison, jalapeno Anaheim and poblano.
One of my best buddies since I'm in from college who was older than I was but I'm not for the electronics repair shop we all worked at used to make that, that might not necessarily deviated. I mean I have and I've made up my own but that's sort of a foundation. I'm happy to substitute them white beans or whatever, but to me beans and chili aren't necessary and wonderful, especially because they break down and give you that starchy thickness.
My wife had brought home some bags of frozen chili from somebody at her work that claimed they do chili competitions. This is just this past week and I was kind of excited to see what just at home stranger thought about their creation.
I'll just say this, but HEB me and being chilly is tastier. It wasn't necessarily bad but he had some sort of odd thing that added some sort of acidity to it, maybe it was a lime zest, because it was hit me up pretty front and center.
I added a can of kidney beans to the one bag, a tablespoon of the HEB barbecue sauce to add a little bit of sweet balance, and made chili cheese dogs, and it was totally serviceable, for the competition it was not going to win.
It was true blue competition chili though and I don't understand why people love that. Beans are great, good for your heart, and make you fart, but they're really just do taste good and can change things like a pasta salad or a soup into something quite a bit better, and I think they're necessary for a great chili.
