I made this recipe this weekend but skipped the kidney beans. I've done this before and the effort to make the beans and the difference a can off tinned beans in tomato sauce is negligible.
for the chilli ingredients I used Serious Eats Chili list of chilis, as I said I've done this a few times ,not often as the recipe is expensive, laborious and wasteful (the stock is crazy), with many different Chili mixes but the main flavour that you get from this is the heat of the Jack Daniels so i wouldn't get hung up on the chili mix. I'd skip the corn muffins too; they were very dry.
I made this recipe this weekend but skipped the kidney beans. I've done this before and the effort to make the beans and the difference a can off tinned beans in tomato sauce is negligible. for the chilli ingredients I used Serious Eats Chili list of chilis, as I said I've done this a few times ,not often as the recipe is expensive, laborious and wasteful (the stock is crazy), with many different Chili mixes but the main flavour that you get from this is the heat of the Jack Daniels so i wouldn't get hung up on the chili mix. I'd skip the corn muffins too; they were very dry.