# Anyone ever make chili using liver? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [May 11, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812 "2021-05-11T04:04:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/21 "2021-05-11T22:09:39Z")
You’re not. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/22 "2021-05-11T22:12:36Z")
“Trader Joe’s near me” thirty five miles. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/23 "2021-05-11T22:31:42Z")
I’ve never been to Trader Joe’s, either. I make liver treats for the cats. It’s chicken liver boiled and drained and refridged. No salt, no spice. I’ve caught Son-of-a-wrek eating them with the salt shaker in hand. He’s nuts. I told him they were cat treats. He said “You spoil those stupid cats, Ma!” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/24 "2021-05-12T00:39:12Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “Trader Joe’s near me” thirty five miles. 😢 - Not worth a trip on its own. They have a few very good items, and the rest is kinda cheap crap. The booze is good and cheap, though. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/25 "2021-05-12T00:50:14Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Not worth a trip on its own. They have a few very good items, and the rest is kinda cheap crap This is what I’ve heard about it. I can get to one in about 25 minutes but I don’t see any reason to drive that far to any grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/26 "2021-05-12T02:13:43Z")
I had great foie gras at a couple of fine dinning restaurants no idea how that could be replicated at home though. The only other way I’ll eat liver is in a [giblet gravy](https://www.thespruceeats.com/old-fashioned-giblet-gravy-with-hard-boiled-eggs-3057037) which you can use on anything but I’d go biscuits and gravy or mash potatoes and gravy. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/27 "2021-05-12T07:02:54Z")
I like Trader Joe’s. There are a number of things they have that I don’t see anywhere else, mostly frozen foods. I’ll return there when the pandemic’s over. Last time I was there, they were limiting the number of people in the store, so there was a line a mile long to get in. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/28 "2021-05-12T08:10:04Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Beef heart is delicious. It’s meat, it’s a muscle. Chicken hearts are fantastic too, marinade them and skewer them up to cook on the grill. Chicken hearts, livers and spleens are also the main components of [Jerusalem Mixed Grill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_mixed_grill), a delicious Israeli dish. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/29 "2021-05-12T09:16:10Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > The only other way I’ll eat liver is in a [giblet gravy](https://www.thespruceeats.com/old-fashioned-giblet-gravy-with-hard-boiled-eggs-3057037) which you can use on anything but I’d go biscuits and gravy or mash potatoes and gravy. Christmas Lunch for us starts the night before when the turkey giblets are made into a stock, ready for the next day. That’s the true magic of christmas…well that and having a sherry at 10AM when prepping lunch. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/30 "2021-05-12T15:58:18Z")
This sounds delicious. I don’t know where to get any outside Jerusalem but I could try to make it myself and just ignore the local critics. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/31 "2021-05-13T02:25:31Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Would a braunschweiger and onion sandwich count? Oooooohhhh, I like me some braunschweiger, from waaay back. Learned it at “my Grandpa’s knee” (well, kitchen table really) Vaderling won’t eat it. > [@mixdenny](#): > > All Straight Dope members from Texas cancel their memberships… You did see the part where I said I was sceptical, right? Fruit flavored chili seems a little…trying too hard to hide the liver or something, specially raspberry, but I’m usually up for a culinary adventure now and then > [@Alessan](#): > > Chicken hearts, livers and spleens are also the main components of [Jerusalem Mixed Grill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_mixed_grill), a delicious Israeli dish Now _this_ sounds interesting, never mind the fruit chili, Imma go with this! Thanks for the suggestion ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/32 "2021-05-13T03:08:19Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I had great foie gras at a couple of fine dining restaurants no idea how that could be replicated at home though. you cant in the us … foie gras has to be imported due to the creation process being illegal in the us (its force-feeding a goose so much that its organs enlarge and then you use just the liver ) Well you might be able to use normal goose liver but then its just pate ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812/33 "2021-05-13T10:09:25Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > This sounds delicious. I don’t know where to get any outside Jerusalem but I could try to make it myself and just ignore the local critics. It’s not like there’s any “official” way of making it - just find a recipe that looks good online and try it out. Just don’t put ketchup on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-ever-make-chili-using-liver/941812.md?page=1)