If anybody wants to get some home made chili, at least for a day, go to the web site for the International Chili Society and locate a cookoff in your area. One of the main rules for the competition is that everything must be prepared at the site, so you can see what ingredients go into a particular batch of chili, and then go back to sample it. The cooks are there to win prizes and advance to the next level of competition, so they are going to try to make the best chili they can. I have been a competitive cook for better than 15 years and I can tell you the cooks take their chili seriously. In the picture you can see a fresh roast being cubed and it will be browned up in the #14 Griswold cast iron skillet on the table.
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