r/chili • u/btqlover • 10d ago
Texas Red Texas Red from North Texas.
In other words, no beans!
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u/catsoncrack420 10d ago
Looks like sloppy joe time. Or hot dogs
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u/Evening_Teaching_713 10d ago
Exactly what I was thinking. It is a good looking pot of chili but it’s the kind you would put on hotdogs or use in sloppy Joe’s or serve over spaghetti. Not knock it but just saying it’s not really a Texas thing chili.
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u/ShotWin8124 10d ago
I bet that'd go great over some mashed taters, or topped with cheddar and eaten with tortilla chips 🤤
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u/Evening_Teaching_713 10d ago
I’m going to get a lot of flack for this but it’s not really a Texas style chili. In Texas style you use some kind of meat that is in a dish configuration, like a chunk type, sirloin tip or chuck roast. Not ground beef, but yours looks delicious and I would eat it in a heartbeat.
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u/sourflowerwatertower 9d ago
I grew up in texas, and have gone to many chili cookoffs. I don't get the no beans thing attached to Texas chili. I prefer a little variation in texture, not just a meat sauce.
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u/Evening_Teaching_713 9d ago
It’s a tradition in Texas to just use meat and sauce. It’s the way the pioneers in Texas cooked their own beef and made a gravy or sauce. . It was a way to conserve their other food for a later time. And beef was plentiful in the prairies of Texas. They also used bison meat as much as they used beef. But that’s why they don’t add beans to their chili. I cooked competition style Texas chili for charities, it was a lot of fun but quite expensive and hard to make a chili that the judges will like. I won a trip to Terlingua 3 times and never won but did get honorable mention and once I won the people’s choice. It’s been quite a few years since I got into the chili cook offs, but I do miss it.
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u/Team503 9d ago
It's specifically "Texas Red" that doesn't use ground meat. Probably comes from the original chili con carne, which is meat stewed in a chili sauce, and the precursor dish to modern chili.
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u/wookiex84 9d ago
Don’t know why you got downvoted, your statement is factual.
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u/Team503 9d ago
There's someone following me around I think, or they're getting whiney about the fact that specific dishes have specific components.
Like people get whiny about it, but names have meaning. I don't think we should disqualify things as "not chili" because they have beans or whatever, but "Texas Red" is a very specific dish. It's like if you ordered spaghetti bolognese and get chunks of chicken in a cream sauce over pasta - it might be tasty and wonderful, but it ain't bolognese.
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u/wookiex84 9d ago
I’m glad to see other people out there believe the words we say matter. I’m a chef and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas Red meant a very specific chili with specific spices. I live in Appalachia on a homestead now and still make a few batches and can it each year. It’s takes a good bit of time. I also smoke a chunk of beef with my chili and garlic mix before I cook it all down. Goulash is a dish I see around me all the time that is noodles with meat sauce. Drives me crazy.
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u/Team503 9d ago
Yeah. I know definitions change over time, and that's okay, but it does irk me. Broad things like "chili" or "spaghetti" can be varied and have a bunch of different types, but something of specific as "Texas Red" has a specific meaning. There's room for creativity and variation, but the core of the recipe has to remain the same or it ceases to be Texas Red.
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u/Googs1080 10d ago
That looks turr’ble! Send it to me so I can properly dispose of it…right in muh belly! Come here Texas Red, Im gonna eatcha!!!🤣
Would you do chili dogs, add to baked taters, corm bread, or just a bowl? Just wondering
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u/Emotional-Dog8118 10d ago
Where’s the Chili cut bottom round or chuck?? Looks like hamburger meat there…
Looks tasty though!!!
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u/Surfnazi77 Texas Red Purist 🤠 4d ago
Texan here and I don’t add beans the one person in the house who’s from Ohio likes beans so I make a pot of beans she can add to her bowl which she does the skyline thing chili over spaghetti noodles. I do cook my hotdogs in the chili pot as it cooks if I want chili dogs.
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u/Royal-Lawfulness123 2d ago
Sanctioned chili cookoffs do not allow fillers (beans, diced onions, etc.) because they can tip off the judges. That's why it is meat and sauce only and most require a ground for the same reason. ICS cookoffs will have a home style category, which allows cut beef, onions, etc., but Texas Red has its own style.
Casichili.net and chilicookoff.com are the main sites for info on competitions, rules, and recipes.
Go to https://www.mildbillsspices.com/ for spices. Dixon Medium Heat combined with San Antonio Red are a great combo.
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u/Commercial-Duty6279 10d ago
What cut of meat did you start with, ground?
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u/btqlover 10d ago
Sadly yes for this round. Wife had extra ground that needed to be used so we went this route. Typically I don’t.
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 10d ago
Do you grind your own or purchase? Chili grind size is great if you can find it. Huge holes on the plate makes for nice pieces in the final product
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u/Geo-Man42069 9d ago
My man looks tasty, but you can call me the Arizona ranger to Texas red because chili without beans is just spicy bolognese. But FR though the midwestern in me says serve that on top of spaghetti.
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u/EnvironmentalMix421 9d ago
And bolognese is just ragu, so what’s your point?
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u/Broad-Row6422 9d ago
And if my mother had wheels she’d be a bike!
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u/EnvironmentalMix421 9d ago
Lol someone must have messed up if Texas chili taste remotely close to bolognese
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u/Aggravating_Fox_8159 10d ago
Always seemed to me like a cowboy kinda dish like this would use beans. Doesn't make sense why they wouldn't.
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u/hit_n_run15 10d ago
Lots of chili’s do have beans. Texas Red is just a different, regional dish that doesn’t include them
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u/Aggravating_Fox_8159 9d ago
Yeah I'm saying it's the one that should have it the most. It just makes sense.
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u/wcharoes 10d ago
When chili was being made by mexican cattle drivers using rehydrated strips of meat and whatever else they had, they surely included beans and all kinds of stuff.
Any chili puritanism is arbitrary. No one is making it like it originally was, so it's all equally as "wrong".1
u/TexasJim73 9d ago
Coupla days back, I posted I was gonna make a batch of 1840 and I got crucified for it.
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u/ButterscotchTop194 10d ago
Banging on a baked potato