Over the Top Chili... Literally!

EggHead_Bubba

I tried this last night and it turned out GREAT. Quite possibly the best chili I've had. The idea is to put all your chili ingredients into a Dutch Oven and then set the DO under the grate where you lightly smoke a big 75/25 ground chuck loaf mixed with bacon. The dripping drop into the DO and once the loaf reached 150° I chopped it up and mixed it in. It then simmered for another 30 minutes before serving. Delicious!

bud812

Sounds like a good idea. Looks good too.

YEMTrey

Yours looks good.  The FB group is blowing up with these cooks.  Must be the trendy thing to do now.

Killit_and_Grillit

I've done quite a few like this...usually less bacon but I may add it to the grind. I also only use red and dark red kidneys, never northern, but it adds some nice color. (Bell pepper, onion, corn, beans, ground beef/pork fat, garlic, crushed tomatoes, tomato juice, chili powder, ancho, cayenne, salt, pepper, Hungarian paprika...whatever other flavors but looks very similar)

also, @YEMTrey what FB group?

EggHead_Bubba

YEMTrey said:

Yours looks good.  The FB group is blowing up with these cooks.  Must be the trendy thing to do now.

Yep, my wife saw it there and wanted to try it.

Grilltastic

What temp did you smoke at and how long? Any details will be appreciated. Thanks 

SloppyJoe

YEMTrey said:

Yours looks good.  The FB group is blowing up with these cooks.  Must be the trendy thing to do now.

FB Group?  

SloppyJoe

The inside of your egg looks brand new. 

nolaegghead

Beans - you did it right.  Chili without beans is just Mexican spaghetti sauce.

bgebrent

nolaegghead said:

Beans - you did it right.  Chili without beans is just Mexican spaghetti sauce.

Couldn't agree more. Nice cook brother!

nolaegghead

Mostly I'm trying to troll Texans.  "Mess with Texas" and all that. 

But I like beans, and I like chili. 

YEMTrey

SloppyJoe said:

YEMTrey said:

Yours looks good.  The FB group is blowing up with these cooks.  Must be the trendy thing to do now.

FB Group?  

@SloppyJoe & @Killit_and_Grillit

Big Green Egg BBQers is the group.

EggHead_Bubba

Grilltastic said:

What temp did you smoke at and how long? Any details will be appreciated. Thanks 

Smoked it at 250° until the ground chuck was 150°.

EggHead_Bubba

SloppyJoe said:

The inside of your egg looks brand new. 

Yeah, that's right. I had a warranty replacement on my base that developed a crack in the bottom. I also had past warranty replacements for the firebox and fire ring a while back. I put all the new stuff together when I relocated my egg to a new table.

Foghorn

@nolaegghead clearly knows that chili without beans is   well   chili.

And with beans it is some form of a meat and bean stew for which nobody seems to have developed a name so the word "chili" is often used as a misnomer.

theyolksonyou

Foghorn said:

@nolaegghead clearly knows that chili without beans is   well   chili.

And with beans it is some form of a meat and bean stew for which nobody seems to have developed a name so the word "chili" is often used as a misnomer.

I think you're confusing chili and hot dog sauce. 

Hotch

I thought it was more like a meatloaf stew. 

KiterTodd

Does it get to be pretty greasy chili with all that fat dripping in?
Was wondering if you skim the fat before serving.  I know some of you guys drink shots of beef fat for breakfast, though.

The thing I like about this idea (in addition to the rave reviews) is that you likely really get the smoked meat flavor into the chili.   I'll give it a try for sure.

20stone

nolaegghead said:

Beans - you did it right.  Chili without beans is just Mexican spaghetti sauce.

nolaegghead said:

Mostly I'm trying to troll Texans.  "Mess with Texas" and all that. 

But I like beans, and I like chili. 

Count me as successfully trolled.  That looks like a great dish, a better version of what my grandmother made.  Hers was ground meat, Ranch Style Beans, hatch chilies, etc.  The dish was called "Hattie Belle Beans".

RRP

Today I just ordered 12 more packages of Cin Chili from TX which we love! It takes the guess work out of the spices to add and more importantly means my chili is consistent from batch to batch year after year. BTW I make my own additions to her recipe, but my chili is kick-thy-butt good!

thetrim

That's meat stew with beans, but it does look pretty good for meat stew with beans.  Beans make you fart, and when you fart, you're gonna $$$$$heeeeaaaatttttt, so meat stew with beans is sssshhhhh

KiterTodd

@EggHead_Bubba what temp did you cook at?  It looks like you did 250, the recipe I saw said 300.  Just wondering.  250 sounds right.

Also wondered the rough cooking time for you;
1. Time until meatloaf reached 150ish
2. Amount of time you cooked the chili after you broke it up and added.

Thanks!!!! 

Budaman5000

I'm so gonna try this....

shtgunal3

@RRP where do you order the Cin Chili? Thanks

RRP

shtgunal3 said:

@RRP where do you order the Cin Chili? Thanks

I just order it direct.
http://cinchili.co