Chile or chili?

[Phaseolus]

Since there is an ongoing discussion about chili with or without beans do you call it chile (I think this is correct) or chili?

 

[rob86jeep]

Chile with an "e" refers to green or red chile. Chili with an "i" refers to the soup like meal people make. Big difference...

 

[robtattoo]

Chile is a country.

Chili or chilli is a pepper or spicy stew

Chilly is a temperature.

Chill is the correct way to behave.

Chilled is the only way to drink top shelf tequila.

 

[wildwilderness]

I would say the American version is chili, with or without beans.

If it is Mexican (spanish) then chile, like Green Chile which they make in Colorado (and the southwest) is so much better than than the American version.

 

[Billy Goat]

I'm calling it meat chowder from now on, just to save confusion.

 

[Trr15]

Chile rhymes with Kyle.

 

[JPD350]

I would say the American version is chili, with or without beans.

If it is Mexican (spanish) then chile, like Green Chile which they make in Colorado (and the southwest) is so much better than than the American version.

LOL I almost spit my New Mexico Chile out when you mentioned Colorado

 

[JPD350]

I would also like to say that NM Chile is as American as apple pie, noticed what I did? didn't mention any other states LOL

 

[kboatman107]

Chile with an "e" refers to green or red chile. Chili with an "i" refers to the soup like meal people make. Big difference...

This!

 

[MTN Humper]

I don’t know, I’ll have to taste it first

 

[5MilesBack]

I had a discussion about this with a guy from Albuquerque one time. He'd mention green chile a lot. Well, I grew up on green chile.......but our green chile is the "pork and green chile sauce" that we smother all of our Mexican food in. His green chile was just a bunch of cut up green chile peppers. So there's green chile and red chile which has the cut up peppers in it, and then there's the actual green and red chile peppers.

Also, chile verde seems to translate to green chile.......but the two are worlds apart from every chile verde I've ever tried.

And chili is what I make with my elk and moose burger.

 

[elkyinzer]

Chile is a sauce made from chile peppers

Chili is a tex-mex soup/stew. Confusingly enough contains chiles or chile powder.

My wife and I were discussing the other day over a bowl of pozole (cooked in a red chile base) where the border is between a soup and a stew. She thought my pozole was a soup, I said it was a stew. For marketing purposes I let her win that one because she does not like stews in a general sense. Either way it is delicous, I recommend anyone that likes good food check out Hank Shaw's venison pozole recipe.

 

[coloyooper]

Chile is a sauce made from chile peppers

Chili is a tex-mex soup/stew. Confusingly enough contains chiles or chile powder.

My wife and I were discussing the other day over a bowl of pozole (cooked in a red chile base) where the border is between a soup and a stew. She thought my pozole was a soup, I said it was a stew. For marketing purposes I let her win that one because she does not like stews in a general sense. Either way it is delicous, I recommend anyone that likes good food check out Hank Shaw's venison pozole recipe.

My wife’s family is Mexican and her grandmother makes pozole for Christmas every year. Most wonderful time of the year!

 

[BFR]

Chili or Chile? Meh, what is important is ground, cubed or pulled meat, and how hot is too hot?

 

[11boo]

You know there can only be one this time of year. Smoked the pork too.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

You know there can only be one this time of year. Smoked the pork too.

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OH YA. Love home made pork verde. I use three kinds of peppers.

 

[Seth]

That’s a good looking batch of roasted chiles, 11boo.

 

[Phaseolus]

That’s a good looking batch of roasted chiles, 11boo.

Fire roasted chile are common in this part of western Colorado. I started a batch last night with local pinto beans, chile, and a bunch of pork left over from our pigroast. 11Boo’s is greener than mine.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I said I use three Dif. peppers without naming them so, Anaheim, Serrano and Poblano.

 

[11boo]

Fire roasted chile are common in this part of western Colorado. I started a batch last night with local pinto beans, chile, and a bunch of pork left over from our pigroast. 11Boo’s is greener than mine.

The beans are gonna be good, as was the pork.