Beef Chili with Bacon and Black Beans

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2003, America's Test Kitchen TV

Could we take supermarket staples and create a basic chili with great flavor?

SERVES 8 to 10 (Makes 3 quarts)

TIME 3 hours

Beef Chili with Bacon and Black Beans

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

With the goal of developing a no-fuss chili recipe that would taste far better than the sum of its common parts, we discovered that adding the spices to the pan with the aromatics boosted their potency. For our chili recipe, we added the be...

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