So I've agreed, nay, insisted on making a chili for everyone on new year's eve (travelling to friends tomorrow morning though). It would be easier for me to make the chili in my own kitchen today and transport it to Suffolk tomorrow for consumption on NYE. If I make it this afternoon/evening - both beef and vejumitarian - and the only time it's not refrigerated is in the car journey tomorrow (approx 4 hours), will it be ok for eatin' on Saturday? 
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Me make chili now - me kill friends on new year's eve?
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Posted 5 months ago #
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Couldn't you just put it in a cool box or something? Maybe wrap it in a down jacket?
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I don't think it would "heat" up that much in four hours in a car would it? A cool box could be a good plan actually - but I'm planning on taking them in the casserole dish I've used to cook them in. Might not fit.
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Put extra chilli in it. No one will know if it was bad or just to much for ones bot bot.
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Now there's a plan.
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it'll be fine. even if it does warm up in the car, it's not problem so long as no one eats it lukewarm.
if anything it will be very good by n.y.e as the flavours will have time to steepen.
yes, i have basic food hygiene training.
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Ah, I have the one affirmation I need.
That's more or less what I thought but the encouragement of strangers on the internet helps enormously.
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What would Homer do?
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Extra chilli, and add a couple of tablespoons of sugar. Make sure it has cooled and been chilled in the fridge properly before you pack it in the car, seal it properly and put it in the boot not the car. You will be fine !!
It's better to make chilli a few days ahead, it seems to marinade in it's own flavours.
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put it in the boot not the car
Depends if it's right above the exhaust which will keep it in the "bacteria zone", though!Posted 5 months ago # -
can't you freeze it and stick it in the cool box for the jouney?
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No problem. It will be better for the wait. If you're still dubious, freezing and defrosting on the car trip (plus a few hours) is a good idea.
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If you have some freezer packs put them under the casserole dish. A freezer bag or box would however be better. You could always but the chili in a tupperware tub and transport the casserole dish separately.
If you get stuck in traffic you could end up in the car for much longer than four hours. Food poisoning is not a great way to start the new year.
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I spent an interesting 7 hours with acute diahhorea and vomiting last night from eating out of date pesto......its not much fun
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yes it will be fine - like asking if you left it on the side for four hours could you eat it...that's the veggie one as for the meat like I give a shit but hopefully for you they wont have to either
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+1 for loads more chilli, it kills bacteria.
and if anyone has a problem the next day, its not your fault they're a chilli-wuss Posted 5 months ago # -
just keep it.cool by.packing.it with frozen peas. then recook it at boiling temp for thirty mins before serving.
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I'll be making a vegenemetarian chilli for NYE too. Great minds, or something.
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Given that once it's been eaten, its going to sit in a warm gut for 24 hours, I cant see the issue with 4 hours in the car.......
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as for the meat like I give a shit
Your concern for the welfare of me and my friends is, as ever, touching JY. Happy New **** Year to you too!
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Great minds, or something.
Immagonna go for Great minds. Or something is the more likely though.
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Ssh. No-one would ever know.
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It will be fine as long as you heat it before eating.
I once made enough chilli for two nights served up the first nights portion, put the lid back on the dish and forgot about it for 36 hours!
I put it in the fridge for the rest of the day & heated it up that evening, the wife & I suffered no strange effects
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Now, everyone share your chilli recipes...?!
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extra chillis and then keep it gently bubbling away right up until you leave the house.. then wrap it up in foil and loads of blankets and it will still be hot when you arrive..
no problemo amigo
Posted 5 months ago # -
Would it be completely effete of me to say I don't really have one? I just start with a load of stuff and go from there. For the veejumatarienne one, I'll be starting with a good base of onions, carrots, celery, chopped pepper and garlic...then a some puree, then the powder (ground coriander, cumin (lots), cayenne pepper and paprika), dry fry for a bit, then add all the beans...kidney, blacke eyed, borlotti, chickpeas and a tin of Heinz baked haricot
Then some veg stock, simmer for a while taste and adjust. Add a bit of smoky chipotle sauce and that's about it. Quantities seem to vary on how much of any one ingredient I use though.
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If your Chilli has enough Chilli in, then it should be pretty much impervious to bacterial growth due to its sheer toxicity
If they get poisoned, its because there's not enough chilli in it, simples!
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If you have some freezer packs put them under the casserole dish.
On top of what needs chilling as cool air sinks. This goes for packing the cool box too.
Posted 5 months ago # -
If your Chilli has enough Chilli in
Amen brother. However, I have other palettes to consider - I know at least two are wusses - so I will be using moderate heat and supplying sour cream or something for the babies.
Posted 5 months ago # -
I do mine in a wok and it takes about 3 hours.
Fry a kg of mince and 3 onions + garlic, drain off the excess fat, add a tin of toms, chopped fresh toms, courgette/marrow and tomato puree, add cup of water and a sachet of chilli mix, let this bubble away for a while..... Then add some frozen veg such as peas and or runner beans, carrots etc, add some more water, oregano, chilli powder and as many chopped chillis as you can handle, 2-3 teaspoons of muscavado sugar and plenty of cinnamon powder, a few chunks of dark chocolate....add water so the wok is pretty full then keep it on the simmer and let it reduce down, add a few tins of kidney and harricot beans with about an hour to go.
You can put in whatever you want such as shrooms or different veg to bulk it up, awesome on rice and even better the next day on chippy chips and rice. I leave it in the wok untill the next day and haven't had the squits yet, fausty pumps on the other hand....
CHILLI DONE, BOSH!
Posted 5 months ago # -
DD you proper metro sexual...I dont know what surprises me most you having friends or vegetarian ones
Thats sounds rather nice tbh - post me any leftovers if it was actually safe
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deadlydarcy - Member
I don't think it would "heat" up that much in four hours in a car would it?
Providing it's kept well away from fancy dan heated wing mirrors.Posted 5 months ago # -
Bizzie Fecker!
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Your problems are over Bravisimo
You can rustle up an omelette for the veggies. They should be used to it by now
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