Name: Delilah's Wicked Twelve Alarm Chili
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 3 h 20 min
Yield: 30 servings
Ingredients: 1 (20 ounce) can kidney beans, undrained; 2 (15 ounce) cans chili beans, undrained; 2 (14 ounce) cans black beans, undrained; 2 (15.5 ounce) cans black-eyed peas, undrained; 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained; 2 pounds lean ground beef; 1 pound hot Italian sausage; 2 large green bell peppers, chopped; 1 large red bell pepper, chopped; 6 small yellow onions, chopped; 1 red onion, chopped; 6 cloves garlic, minced; 1 (4 ounce) can sliced jalapeno peppers, finely chopped; 1 (7 ounce) can chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, finely chopped; 6 serrano peppers, finely chopped; 4 orange habanero chili peppers, finely chopped; 1 banana pepper, seeded and finely chopped; 3 cherry peppers, finely chopped; 1 Anaheim pepper, finely chopped; 4 red Thai chili peppers, finely chopped; 4 green Thai chili peppers, finely chopped; 2 tablespoons chili powder, or to taste; 1 1/2 tablespoons ground cumin; 3 tablespoons red pepper flakes; 1/3 envelope taco seasoning mix; cayenne pepper, or amount to taste; salt and ground black pepper to taste

Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,713 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,713 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Beans + black-eyed peatop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together37 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Kidney beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together364 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Black-eyed pea + tomatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together100 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, black-eyed pea, tomato, beef, pepper, onion, clove):

Chickpeafits better
Lentilsfits better
Chestnutfits better
Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, black-eyed pea, tomato, beef, pepper, onion, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Pork	100g cooked	242
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Kidney Bean	1/2 cup canned (128g) drained	112
Banana	1 medium (118g)	105
Cherry Pepper	1 cup (138g)	87
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Green Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Jalapeno	1 pepper (14g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Bean	not in our table	0
Black-Eyed Pea	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Taco	not in our table	0

Delilah's Wicked Twelve Alarm Chili