I don't eat beans in any form and definitely not in my chili! Chili (my chili) is one of my favorite dishes and I cook it and eat it all year round regardless of the weather.

I use beans, but I use red beans. I don't like kidney beans. They're to firm. Red beans are softer. You can blend/mash up the beans and leave some whole. That thickens up your chili, and gives flavor too.
Leslie

Maybe it's those red beans. They are were big and red. Still don't like them.
Hadn't thought to mash them up, would have saved time picking them out :o)

Now don't gag but I put pintos in my chili. Nice and soft and mild flavored.

I like mine with beans...but I do not like those Kidney beans. They are hard and seem uncooked to me.

I always buy chili beans that come in a chili sauce.

Usually "Mrs Grimes" if I can find them...They are my favorite.

patti

I have recipes for chili with and without beans and like it either way.

Mashing some of the beans sounds like a good idea!

I used to have a coworker who participates in chilli cookoffs. She said beans were not allowed in competition.

I don't like chili without beans ... I put in LOTS of them.

I use pinto beans, too. My GM's recipe who cooked chili a long time ago!

I don't compete. But, give me Beans, Red or Pinto, whichever. A big bowl topped with cheese and green onions and a slice of cornbread.

I like Beef Chilli, Turkey Chilli and Venison Chilli.

Now I want some. Wheres the BEEF? I'm Full of Foul!

Gayle

with LOTS of beans...

I like it both ways,sometimes with sometimes without depending on my mood.I usually cook a pot of pintos (never Kidney beans)and let everyone add them if they like.

I like mine with beans & usually cook it with red & kidney beans. Sometimes I use pinto beans too.

I like beans in my chili, but not kidney beans. I hate them in anything. If I have a recipe that calls for kidney beans, I always substitute something else.

With beans but never Kidney beans. I don't like them either. I use pintos and/or black beans. As far as I'm concerned it's not chili without the beans.

Linda

Getting ready to make some deer chili either tonight or tomorrow. Using lots of beans. You guys may not want to read a post from me for awhile.....ROFLMBO

We have a lot of chili here, too. I grew up w/mom making chili w/kidney beans. I never liked them, so I left them out when I grew up and made my own. At some point, though, DH announced he likes black beans in chili. I said, OK, I'll do it. That was years ago and now we always use black beans. Not too much, though, not quite the whole can. I don't want more beans that meat. I like the black beans b/c they are smaller.

I like all beans esp black beans I will eat all beans right out of the can yummmy:) As for chili I like it with beans unless I am putting it on a hot dog then no beans.

No beans for me, but I add broken, cooked spaghetti after it's cooked.

Pinto beans for me too. I love em so much i could swim in them.

Beans are fine... just not a lot of them.

I prefer it without beans and that's the way I make it, but will eat it with beans if I must.

Linda

I like beans...beans and rice or beans and cornbread or beans and tortillas....but not ever in chili!!

The more the merrier. I used red and dark red kidney beans, along with a can of mixed beans (navy, chick peas and black eyed whatevers... all for colour LOL).

I was thinking of making some chili for supper tomorrow. It's one of my favourite things to eat.

Maybe I will make some white chili with some left over turkey....and add some white beans.
Thanks for the idea.
I like my chile without beans and spicy hot.

I use beans. But I like it without for chili dogs. Got to have hot sauce in my bowl of chili.

Well I fool them all. I put a can of refried beans to thicken my chili and no one knows. I get my beans and they think they don't! lol Salena

I used to think of Chili without beans as "hot dog sauce", but since moving to Texas and being "properly educated" in the ways of chili (according to some Texas cowboys) I make it both ways. If I want to have it with something such as chili cheese fries, I make it without beans, if its the main part of the meal I use beans, but the small red ones or pintos.

How can it be Chili without beans? I always thought that was part of it. Without beans isn't it just hamburger/turkey meat ground up kind of like sloppy joe? I have never had it any other way. What would you put in it besides beans?