On 10/15/2013 9:13 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "Steve Freides" > wrote in message
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>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> I am watching a show called Taste This. Not sure who the male chef
>>> is but he is doing pub food. He made chili. Said that every pub in
>>> Scotland serves a good chili. I did not know this! He made it in a
>>> skillet and said that you start with a good chili oil which you can
>>> make yourself. He sprayed it from a bottle. From there he lost me.
>>> He used sausages and other meats in there and said that he will not
>>> use kidney beans because they have a tough outside. I can't remember
>>> now what beans he used. Maybe black. I just sat there thinking...
>>> They do not! Have a tough outside that is. They re my favorite
>>> beans for chili. He also topped the finished chili with cubes of 1-5
>>> year aged sharp cheddar. His chili does not look like any chili I've
>>> seen.
>>> But my question is... What is chili oil? And do you put it in your
>>> chili?
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>> I don't think chili oil has anything to do with what most of us think
>> of as chili - chili oil is Chinese, at least what I've used. Not that
>> you couldn't use it in chili...
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> Does it contain chili from peppers?
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>
It would seem so. And definitely not what I would consider "Scottish
cooking". Once again, some people listen too much to what television
"chefs" have to say.

Jill