If you don’t already do this, add a dessert-spoonful of back treacle to your chilli.
This is my best cooking tip ever.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:24, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

That sounds interesting.
What effect does the treacle have?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:26, Reply)

It makes the whole dish infinitely richer
and also does wonders for the colour too. I cannot endorse this highly enough – you’ll never make a chilli without it again. I haven’t in the 15 years since I learnt it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:31, Reply)

I'm pretty sure "back treacle" is the worst euphemism ever.
But, yeah, it's not a bad tip. Also, worth considering high-quality dark chocolate or good cocoa powder, same effect. It takes the edge off the heat of the chili and deepens the flavour.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:30, Reply)

My chili was disappointing on Saturday
I may buy treacle. Or I may just steart eating cereal for tea again
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Other tricks
Use cheap steak cuts rather than mince. Cook at least twice, and at least one of those times for more than 3 hours at a low heat.

Chocolate is a bit less hassle than black treacle as you can use it for other things and it doesn't have the properties of set araldite between the tin and the shelf.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:34, Reply)

Three hours?!
But I'm hungry now :(
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:35, Reply)

takes a day to make a good chili
start it the night before, cook it on the hob for an hour, let it sit out on the side overnight, put it in the oven at about 110 degrees at lunchtime and eat it at dinnertime.

fucking lush.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:37, Reply)

come cook me food I'm hungry and poor

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:38, Reply)

But you're in That London
aren't the streets paved with gold? I thought all the poverty was up here where I'm forced to live in terrible conditions in spacious centrally-located Victorian flats, eating only what I can forage by stopping at Waitrose on the way home from work?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:50, Reply)

Can't eat gold

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:00, Reply)

That Blumenthal chap would probably beg to differ.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:05, Reply)

He'd eat his own face if he could.

( girlinthehole, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 13:09, Reply)

Hahah

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:33, Reply)

"so anyway, after I booted her back doors in, I reached the vinegar strokes, pulled out and left her some lovely back treacle"
From "An officer and a lady" by E.M. Forster.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 12:36, Reply)