Confusing Groceries: Chili Powder
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
- Part 2 in a series about the most confusing items to shop for in the grocery store covers "Chili Powder". Learn the difference so you're never left with the wrong ingredient.
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What a fantastic shorts series idea! I remember you doing this about things labeled “coconut cream” and it blew my mind
I pulled up comments to say this exact thing. so much confusion from similar wording
I don't think I've ever seen anything as confusing as coconut cream or milk labelling. There's really no way to go off of only labelling, you just have to read the ingredients. Want coconut milk that separates into water and fat? Get full fat! Oh? What's that? You bought a can that said full fat coconut milk but still wont separate? That's because it has all of these gums and stabilizers that wont let it separate! So frustrating.
Finally, a YT channel that produces different content for shorts instead of just clipping their other videos and teasing people that they should watch the whole video! This is a great series too!
Great short, great series, great creator!
To be fair, his normal videos are so concise and to the point that clipping them is nearly impossible. A screenshot is the biggest chunk you can get to tease the whole video without giving way too much content for a short and too little to be satisfying
Literally every channel I subscribe to makes unique shorts content, don't blame creators because you have shit taste
@@vyvianalcott1681 shorts content is generally ass. If you like it all maybe you have shit taste
some even has salt included in it so if you aren’t aware you can accidentally oversalt your dish
This series of shorts is what convinced me to check out the channel, leading me to the extranet, and the rest is history. Great lean content; keep it up.
It generally advisable to look at the back on spices and spice mixes, so you aren't surprised if for example you got salt in it
Thank you for not making it loop
those red and yellow bags are the GOAT. all like 1$ and last you for weeks.
Spanish and Asian grocery stores ftw!
Best garlic powder I've ever used!
Sooo much more flavorful than the supermarket stuff too.
Dude, mexican grocery stores are awesome
@@IjeomaThePlantMamaMiddle Eastern shops too! I've found so many new to me tasty things in those. And if you can find farina/sooji, you can use it just like cream of wheat but it's cheaper and in bulk! I've also gone through munching many a can of stuffed grape leaves, yum. 💛
I’m writing a research paper on how confusing food labeling complicates the responsibilization of eating under neoliberalism and this is the perfect popular source to show how packaging claims can confuse us when trying to make healthy eating choices! Thanks!!
That sounds like a cool paper!
The amount of lobby money, research grants, and funding for the FDA coming from industry makes the concept of neoliberal responsibilization almost a joke. If we had any sort of ethics in marketing it might be an option. But, when the FDA says it's okay to hide ingredients and make confusing nutrition fact-labels, and allow ridiculous marketing words... there is no ethic. It's just a farming of the lower classes via misinformation, bad food, and expensive treatments when they get sick.
Good luck with your paper!
Sounds like a boring overthinking paper, I’d quit college or whatever you are and start getting to work at walmart if I were you.
@@RealRustGangsta sounds like your life is going great. 👍 Enjoy being a dickhead
@@RealRustGangsta na bro this paper will be the one that finally solves neoliberalism for once and for all!
Neoliberalism is barely even an ideology it's just the academic name for not giving a fuck.
As soon as I saw the title I knew what the complaint would be. It drives me absolutely crazy especially because the vast majority of them don’t even specify what kind of chilis they are. I live very far away from any kind of Latin grocer or even a place with a significant Latin section so every time I go to a big city I find a place and stock up for a couple months.
I also plan on smoking my own chilis once my garden starts producing in a couple months. I tried a bit last year but thanks to a cheap junk smoker I ended up with a lot of burnt chipotles and only a couple good ones
Your videos are incredible. I've been a cook in quite a few kitchens, and cook almost daily at home, but so many of your videos show me things I've never even thought about.
I am so glad you said virtually and not literally.
I only recently learned that when an american cook says the recipe has chili, it doesn't necessarily mean burning hot, but can in fact be almost like paprika. Non-hot chili was a mind bender to me. Whose grocery stores had until recently only cayenne pepper powder, maybe unspecified chili flakes.
There is a massive variety of Chilli peppers.
I love the content of your shorts, they are extremely helpful! Please keep the terrific content coming
Internet Shaquille I used to only care about your videos for the comedy and self care advice but now I'm a chef and what you say in these videos is even more relevant and funny haha
Is it safe to say most casual recipes we come across are gonna be referring to the spice blend unless stated otherwise?
Yes, any casual recipe calling for "chili powder" is gonna have the blend in mind. Authors with a specific flavor in mind will call for "New Mexico Chile Powder", for example
at least in the commonwealth, just "chilli powder" in a recipe means powdered thai red chillis in Australia, UK etc.
Absolutely not. Any recipe that asks for chili powder wants just chili powder. I've never even seen this blend before. B
For a casual meal it won't make a whole lot of difference, I wouldn't worry about it at all.
Wish I would have seen this video 10 years ago. I was a fresh of boat grad student from India, on a limited budget, bought a bottle of chilli powder and got so pissed to learn it’s a fucking blend. Even though I am rich as fuck now to buy a whole spice store, it irks me to think of that day.
Brother when I first saw some of your shorts I thought you also actually cooked but all I see you do ever is explaining confusing ingredients lol.
Which honestly is great, informative and entertaining. Cheers!
Is this a uniquely American issue? I live in the UK and when I think about it, chilli powder is always labelled in its variety (usually cayenne or kashmiri) so you can trust it to be single ingredient.
My understanding is that is that “chili powder” as a blend is referring to the dish (chili con carne, which is almost universally shortened to just chili in the US) and not the peppers themselves. Sort of along the same lines as “curry powder” not being powdered curry leaf- you use curry powder to make curry, you use chili powder to make chili. Being a staple of northern Mexican/Tex-mex cuisine that has become a national staple with many regional variations, I think the confusion is indeed an American issue.
This isn't even common in America
Yeah... I was slightly baffled by this, but then, the EU and UK (currently) have some of the strictest food labeling laws in the world, and they're *uniform,* which isn't always the case with the States.
If it says chili powder, it's just chili powder. If it says chili powder mix, then there'll be other things in there, and if it's a specific *type* of chili that the powder is derived from, it will say that in the name as well.
@@thenefariousnerd7910 Chili Con Carne is *not* shortened to just "chili" in the U.S..
Chili has meat, *beans* (and sometimes tomatoes), as well as probably other stuff like onions, garelick, sweetcorn, or bacon, in rare cases.
@@userequaltoNullI can understand the confusion but I believe the "chili" you're referring to is a shortening of the original name of the dish which is chili con carne. Even if it typically has a lot of other ingredients these days. Sometimes maybe people use the full name to refer to a more "pure," authentic version of it.
Honestly, I've been cooking for years and didn't know this. Thanks, Shaq!
Silicone dioxide is an unusual spice
eat your sand, peasants!
Love a little free sand with my spices
As someone who cant eat garlic, this drove me nuts for years. Now I buy specific chiles like that from a spice store and it is way better.
I want to say thanks for adding your own captions to the short form videos. For the most part, I noticed that people talk really fast in them so that you won’t understand everything they say and then you have to watch it a second or third time because of course you can’t rewind it, especially when your casting on your television, it’s a cheesy gimmick and I’m glad you don’t do it
Great short! I never realized that
Here in New Mexico, USA, we spell it "chile." So move here to avoid confusion.
I'm not a beginner cook, no I am I a professional, so thank you for breaking this down for us.
This is exactly what i do at my job as a instructor for kids i try to tell them as much as i can and teach them about the intricacies of cooking and how some things might be named similar they can be wildly diffrent
Your videos are everything shorts should be - direct, informative, to the point.
I love what you're doing Shaq. I hope your full length videos start popping up on my feed again.
I love this series
Love the delivery. And this is all great info for beginners. Just wish you were around before I had to make all these mistakes myself. Nice channel. And now I sub
This is a great series
That one got me back when I was learning new recipes. I wanted a chili(the dish with beans) recipe and the recipes I found called for chili powder, so I bought chili powder and was blown back by how spicy the dish was. Later found out that when they called for all those tablespoons of chili powder, they meant the chili blends made for the specific dish and not actual chili 🌶️ powder. I don't normally see that product in our grocery stores, so I found a recipe to make my own chili blend for when I make chili(the bean dish).
I'm so glad I figured out how to read
I love your content. Well researched, informative and doesn't waste your time.
I’m from central Texas where Chili powder (the spice blend for well chili) was invented. We keep it on hand and use it for everything. Chili burgers go hard!!
This is the best information I have ever found related to cooking
I’m commenting so I see more of you. You’ve taught me so much, thank you!
Thats why i go to the ethnic specific grocery stores and get whole dried pepper and grind them myself. I get Kashmiri pepper and habanero a lot but I also have managed to find whole dried Tabascos
Oh wow this one blew my mind! Never thought to look at the ingredient list for a spice of all things
great series mr shaquille
I once when to Tampico when I was very young, Tamaulipas is probably the best place to go to if you're from Northeastern Mexico or maybe even South Texas
this series is a godsend
Your content is excellent!!
I was amazed that Texas chili is a blend of all kinds of stuff.
Thanks, great tip for people with High Blood Pressure or cooking for people with sodium restrictions who can't take all the additional salt
FYI, Dried chilies take to a cheap coffee grinder pretty well.
I fully agree with you
I miss Tampico.
If only I had seen this before it got me
Wow! You're doing such good work here. ❤
Yeap, subscribing this kind of info is super good to know.
Bless u 4 your videos
These are incredibly helpful
Love the videos
I remember when I had just moved into my own place and doing my own cooking.
I had bought a spice I really liked, but was out of it, and the store didn't carry that brand anymore.
No problem picked a different brand said the same thing, but it wasn't the same thing.
Unfortunately I never found that brand again
In Brasil we once bought some chile poweder while visiting a larger city. Where we lived, five hours away, you couldn't find chile powder. When we got home, we found out that the "chiles" used were not spicy (I think it was red bell peppers or something).
I actually knew about this one. After I read about this online while looking up ways to differentiate higher quality pepper, I scoured my grocery store for a Chili Pepper spice that was JUST chili pepper. There was only one brand, and it wasn't even in the spice aisle, it was in the International/Hispanic Foods section.
I love my Chipotle Powder, i mostly just use it for Ranch dressing
Good stuff. Learned this recently making a rogan josh recipe that called for pure chili powder for heat rather than the standard "chili powder" blend
Chipotle is so good!
Thanks for not looping!
Are loops not fun to watch?
@@RRAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I personally feel exploited by them.
I'm sitting there watching and I realize I'm seeing the same stuff over, which is like a practical joke being played on you.
If the loop point is obvious, that's different, because you can opt out.
But if it's well done enough to trick me, I feel... TRICKED.
I don't like that.
So when people don't try it I feel respected.
Maybe that's just me.
The only way to make sure what you're getting, is exactly what you want, is to look at the ingredients label.
It's exactly what I do everytime I go looking for spices to refill my spice cabinet with.
Huh!? I always assumed it was only powdered chilies. I'll make sure to check from now on!
Had to double check my spice drawer, thanks Shaq!
oh yes. it was like that with me. at first, i thought one bottle wasn't fresh, coz it seemed orange, not the dark red from another store!
The conflation of pasilla and poblano chiles in US grocery stores is a big one for me
Learned that the hard way. The recipe will taste very different if you use the one with added spices And add your own because you didn't notice the small print. There is also a very dark chili powder and I've never figured out if it's just another variety of chili. There is also Indian chili powder and Korean chili powder. And I am just exploring the differences of those .
I'm not American so chili powder is just powdered chilies. Which is why it took me a while to understand why Americans made, and ate, chili. Were I'm from we eat curry or peri-peri.
Chili powder is the bomb
~ Pinkenberg
Cayenne pepper is usually sold as cayenne and not chili pepper, at least in my area. Chili powder is usually the blend and chili pepper is a single type of pepper. As I pointed out that's in my area, I cispeak for where others live
Lately I have just been throwing the dried peppers I want for the dish into a blender and blending them to a dust, instead of buying ground chili.
Just give it a minute before opening it if you're using something like arbol or hotter
Fun fact! My girlfriend is allergic to mustard and EVERYTHING had mustard on it. If it doesn't label it specifically it'll just say "spices" and it is SO unhelpful!
Mega chill, eee!
Noticed this the other day looking for Kashmiri chili powder, also couldn’t find it in a brick and mortar Midwest grocery store.
Love Tampico brand, they have better spices for less money.
Also I'm very sensitive to capsaicin, so when I learned a few years ago paprika is just red bell pepper, and considered that while taste testing ground chili pepper... I can approximate spicy things in flavor without putting myself in hours of pain 👏
The combination of good ground chili peppers with ground cumin, garlic and oregano is What's in every good chili but definitely make your own. That stuff in a bottle usually sucks.
Dude, you're da man. You're the hero we need but that we didn't know that we need. (screw batman, InternetShaquille is in town)
your watch is amazing, what is it?
That’s why you always check the label
Regular paprika is from the red bell pepper. Which is a green bell pepper that is allowed to mature.
Shit were you looking at me while I mixed them up this morning 😭
Now I have to check my chili powder. I've never noticed a chili powder blend being available, except for the McCormick Mexican Chili Powder I have which is only a blend of various chilis and not any other seasonings.
THE ONLY TRUE CHILE IS FROM NEW MEXICO
ETA: I'M LOOKING AT YOU, DENVER! 😂
this blows my mind because i have NEVER accidentally bought or even SEEN the spice blend
ground paprica is a bell pepper and not a chili, however ancho powder makes better deviled eggs.
I really thought my chili powder was just chili until I went to look just now... Shaq making me question my entire reality again.
I really like the chili powder blend just for ease of use when making taco meat, for example. Do you have a recommended diy blend for something like that?
Go to the Mexican market and buy dried chili peppers according to the type you want. Take them home and put them in a blender, food processor, spice grinder whatever. It won't have that super fine texture but it will likely taste better and you know what you're getting.
Lol I grew up in a household where red kashmiri chili powder was chili powder. Now imagine what happened when I used it to make enchiladas sauce 😂
You made some awesome enchiladas!!??
I finally understand why my new bottle of chili powder is way spicier than the last one
I always thought a non-specific chili powder was a mix. I mean, otherwise, just what kind of pepper is it? Good to know to start double checking that.
They should be labeled chili powder for ground chilis and chili mix for the ones with other ingredients added .
Even more confusing in countries where chilli powder is always the straight up dried peppers/chilli's so you don't even see the alternative ones.
Many of our problems can be solved by avoiding the branding or what the packaging looks like and simply reading the ingredients.
I've noticed this more recently ehen diving into asian cooking. I usually specifically get cyanne chili powder and pepper flakes, but noticed the naming convention across more varieties is still typically genetically names "chili powder" and "chili flakes". I wasn't aware of the blends, but I have a habit of checking food labels so I'm not sure I've fallen for this. It's a bit alarming though, considering how many dietary restrictions and food allergies exist. I know several different spice blends will have added salt and sugar, and the labels on spice jars are very small. It would be really easy to get something you didn't intend to.
I especially dislike when a spice blend contains salt
Thanks bruf
So in my country "chili powder" EXCLUSIVELY refers to the spice blend, and I thought that was the case everywhere so that's what I've been using every time a recipe calls for chili powder ...
Nomenclature (what different things are called) in any field is always terrible, and usually involves some history and some names that, "just stuck."
I know chili powder I was using (I don't like spicy things) but I really thought you were calling for that in some of your recipes like the chicken tinga. Now I'm realizing I probably interpreted it wrong too 🙃
Make one of these on toasted sesame oil vs regular sesame oil. They are often labeled the same thing.
So many dishes ruined.....😢😢