WOLF BRAND Chili With Beans, 24 oz.

As someone who has loved all kinds of Chili for more than 7 decades I have tried different brands over the years. While browsing on Amazon recently for soups and Chili I came across this brand (Wolf Brand Chili with beans, 24 ounce can) for a great price and I decided to purchase it. This brand of Chili has been around wince 1895 and I had eaten it in the past. This large size can is enough Chili to feed anyone with a big appetite, and I found it to be delicious. I am very pleased with my purchase. Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Training alone in combatives and self-defense).

Bigger cans than I usually get but perfect for making 4 chili dogs. 👍 Can't beat the taste - also great for topping a bowl of Fritos with cheese and diced onions. Yum!

This doesn't compare at all to homemade chili, but it's in a can. so get over yourself. But it's finey itself as Chili and is totally acceptable on a chili dog and is probably fine for backed potatoes. Bean texture is fine making up around 40% of the volume, it's probably about 40% "meat", and the other 20% is sauce - as expected the chili blends most of the flavors together and I couldn't really disquingish between meat & bean - but as chuncks of chili they fine. I found the sauce thinkness appropriate (thick gravy) and muttled well with melted cheese. I agree with some other reviewers that some canned beef stew is nearly this thick, but unless your chili is thickened with velveta it's not going to get much thicker then this and be either edible or "chili". Homemade chili is rarely this thick and also better. So I don't see the point of this issue other than for chili-dogs, which this chili is fine for. It'll be a staple in my pantry for when I can't be bothered to make it myself.

There are many different types of chili. Like many of the bad reviewers here I used to prefer Chile Where the ground beef and the beans were well-defined. The taste of the chili was more like hamburger and beans than chili. I still like that version of chili but Wolffs is not it. This is the classic chili from the 1950s: you're not supposed to be able to see hamburger vs the beans. It's more like a very very thick sauce which is meant to be put on hamburgers and hotdogs or eaten solo. And that's how I eat it straight from the can. I don't even wait to heat it. 😋 Back in the day classic Chili's of the 1950s had been Nalley's and Dennison's. You can find those here in Amazon. Hormel has also long been a classic. You will notice that all of them have the thick paste consistency. We can argue Wolff's is pricey. But you're getting it shipped! So yes, I will keep buying this 😍

Pros: This chili is really tasty. I like mine with a sprinkle of shredded cheese and saltine crackers. I have been making my way through every brand I can find of canned chili and this is in my top five for flavor. The meat is pureed and there is nothing difficult to chew or swallow. The chili isn't bean heavy which might be a pro or con depending on who is eating it. Finally, the cans are huge. I can turn one can into two meals. Some might choose to eat the whole can at once, but I am not one of them. Cons: There is a slight heat to this chili, it isn't bad but, those with digestion issues might have problems with it. This chili has a pureed meat consistency that some put some people off of it. My adult daughter thought I was dumping dog food in a bowl at first glance.