On Tue, 08 Jun 2021 04:55:39 +1000, Dave Smith >
wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:14:28 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:
>
>>On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 1:44:57 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 08:04:50 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >When it lacks cumin. And for red chili, when it lacks ancho chiles. For me,
>>> >those are the flavors that define chili. Apparently for a lot of people, because
>>> >"chili powder" has both.
>>>
>>> Chili powder has cumin? I've only ever seen chili powder made
>>> exclusively from chilli peppers.
>>
>>If it's made exclusively from chile peppers, it's labeled as "ground red pepper"
>>or "ground [variety]" such as ground cayenne, ground habanero, ground chipotle.
>>
>>Here's how we remember it: chili powder is a spice blend for making chili;
>>anything else is powdered chiles of a single variety, and can be used for making
>>anything you want, including chili. It would be easier if we would call "chili" by
>>its proper name: chile con carne. But you know we love our abbreviations.
>
>Yes, I figured it refers to chili con carne and not to chili pepper,
>even though there's chili pepper in the mix.
>
>I looked up chilli powder at a big Australian supermarket. They have:
>-Hoyt's Chilli Powder: ground chilli pepper
>-Maharajah's Choice Chilli Powder Spice: ground chilli pepper
>-Masterfoods Mexican Chilli Powder: paprika, cumin, chilli pepper and
>garlic
>
>So the last one is what you'd just call chili powder.
Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."
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Not Dave Smith