Why does chili always taste so much better on the second day?

Because it allows all the flavors to blend and mellow. Any stew (including chili and curries) and many soups benefit from sitting overnight. As does certain sauces, like bbq sauce and other savory cooked sauces.

legume magic
cabbage does it too

>>8889338
I read that when you cook protein it tightens up like a spring. As it cools, it relaxes. It's during that relaxing stage that the protein absorbs the surrounding liquid like a sponge. Would you rather the meat taste like chili or taste like meat floating in chili sauce? Most people prefer the former.

>>8889338
The more you cook it the more the flavours concentrate as the water content evaporates out.

Because your roomate jerks off into it once you fall asleep

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>>8889338
At night when u we're slepping I sneaky in a bust a nut in it

>>8889428
The other guy made the same joke you did but 4 minutes earlier.

>>8889391
Real chili doesn't have beans

>>8889461
If we let you secede will you shut your fucking mouth?

>>8889338
It has time to really infuse.

>>8889461
Chile con carne indeed doesn't contain beans. It's meat braised in a chili spiced broth

>>8889338
Happens with just about any long simmering dish. Same is true for most stews and curries.

>>8889338
Like the others say, generally it applies to stews and stuff like that, I don't really know why, but it seems to usually be the case.

>>8889461
>>8889467
A rainbow flag dont mean your a fag either a rainbow is gods promise traditionally.
Things change no bean fags.
Rainbows are for fags and beans go in chilli

>>8889420
I killed that bastard years ago, he ended as main ingredient for curry stew.

>>8889659
>beans in chili are for fags and rainbows are refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets.

FTFY

>>8889338
It was explained in Modernist Cuisine, something about oxidation, cant remember for sure. And yes, its true for any stew as well

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>>8889338
Because the flavors mend and blend. It's kinda the same as coleslaw and macaroni salad...always better day two.

Some dishes are just like that .

>>8889461
Jesus fucking Christ. When the fuck will people realize that this is shitposting and will stop letting it derail whole threads and the fucking board?

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>>8889461
Where do this guy even come from making statements like this?

>>8889338
Mold.

>>8890001
In most Texas chili cookoffs "filler" will disqualify you, which includes things like beans and corn. It's just autism

Personally I don't like beans in chili but I do put a can of corn in mine for the texture contrast

>>8889413
Correct answer here.

>>8890064
>In most Texas chili cookoffs
Most people aren't Texans, nor engaging in cookoffs, so who gives a shit? Is this really the logic of that?

>but I do put a can of corn in mine for the texture contrast
Me too, I like the flavor of the corn, along with the beans.

>>8890064
>le texas chili cookoffs are center of universe
The idea is to make something delicious and nutritionally balanced for me. The beans are both necessary and authentic, not to mention healthy.

>>8890106
You asked where this autism comes from so I told you. Don't be this way

Why did my roommates eat all my leftover chili and then tell me it was just okay?

>>8890260
Your roommates want your cock

>>8889353
Every time I make curry, I cook it the night before. Reheating it on the stove the day after improves the flavor 10 fold.

>>8889659
God isn't real and rainbows aren't a promise, therye what >>8889676
this moderately informed fag said

>>8889401
Wow there actually is somebody who isn't completely retarded in these threads.

That + the acidic environment the tomatoes/lime juice (or whatever you use for acidity) slowly breaks down everything causing them to slowly leak out water / flavor aswell as taking in the tasty other flavors that aren't theirs.

>>8889461
Truth.

>>8890850
>>8889401
This is actually interesting to read about.

>>8889338
It allows time for the carbs in the beans to break down into simple sugars

>>8891365
Mmm... beans