Chili

Botch

It was supposed to be partly cloudy and dry today, wanted to mow the lawn one last time and winterize the mower, but woke up to 40 F and a light drizzle, so decided to make chili instead.  Thought I'd try pre-cooking the meat in the Egg with some smoke, and see what that does to the chili.  At the store I found a "7-bone" pot roast, I've never worked with that cut of meat but it was only $7 so gave it a try; also halved a couple onions to smoke also:

Cooked it to 150 F internal, really a good-looking cut of meat and pretty tender for not having much marbling at all.  I sliced it up and then cubed it for chili.  There weren't 7 bones in it, only two (I later looked up on Wikipedia that the main bone is shaped like a "7"; my two bones looked more like a roman numeral "VI"    )

 

Added beans, tomatoes-n-green chile that I had in the cupboard, ground chile, garlic, salt & pecker, cumin, oregano, and basil.  Had the first bowl after 3 hours, it needs to stew a bit longer but was still darn good.  I don't own any cast-iron so the chili itself was made in a crockpot.  

I like to throw a handful of Fritos in the bottom of the bowl and gobs of cheddar on top, yum!

Navigator

Looks Tasty!

Squeezy

That looks like what we call chuck or shoulder which is quite a tasty piece, and good for chili or stews.

I'd go one step further ... put the chili in an open pot and back on the egg to get some more smoke on it.

I do it all the time with bean dishes ... just love it!

 

mosesmalone

Looks good.

mr toad

squeezy - what pot do you use when you cook chili -

mr toad

LDD

looks great.

I stopped using ground beef for chili about 5-6 years ago, and exclusively steak/roasts.

Squeezy

I just make it inside with my stainless pots, then transfer to an aluminum pan, into the smoker at 225º for a couple hours of smoke time, stirring in the smoke flavor every half hr. or so ... ">

4Runner

Looks and sounds great.   Looks like your pic is a bit early....needs to simmer more and thicken.  Still, I can almost smell it from here.   I do think charring the meat on the Egg adds a nice flavor.  I also now do everything on the Egg for my chili except garilic, onion and peppers.  My burger is ground from chuck so I start with that and then add some cubed meat....typically a top sirlion steak.   Just to mix up the texture a bit.  I can't wait to do a chili.

Gato

I would be careful about adding that ingredient right after the salt. Whoops