Chili season is on — the dumps are back. Hand-blended in Fort Worth, Texas.
Small-batch chili spices · Fort Worth, Texas

Real chili
starts with
the dump.

One packet, one pot. Championship-grade chili spice blends, made the Texan way by a name that's been in Texas commerce since 1921.

Gluten free · No beans. Obviously.

Jeb's 5th Wheel Chili Dump — Original, medium heat

Four blends, one scale — from campfire-friendly to certified regret. Every dump preps the same: 2 lbs of beef or wild game, a bottle of dark beer, and thirty minutes of patience.

BaseCamp MILD pouch
MILD

BaseCamp

Original MEDIUM pouch
MEDIUM

Original

Santa Elena HOT pouch
HOT

Santa Elena

Chichén Itzá FIRE pouch
FIRE

Chichén Itzá

"La Quinta" PantryPak — $39.95

Five dumps, every heat level, pantry stocked for the whole season. The best-value way in.

Get the PantryPak
Cogdell Kitchens — 1921 to 2023 heritage seal Since 1921

Born into Texas commerce.

The Cogdell name entered Texas trade over a century ago — humble beginnings, hard work, reliable goods, and neighborly care of customers. Cogdell Kitchens carries that spirit into its fifth generation: bringing good stuff to market, for good people, the Texan way.

Portrait from the founding generation Where the name began.
Five generations. One standard.
Jeb
The man on the label

Meet Jeb.

Fifth-generation Texan, lifelong chili man, and the reason there's a hat on your spice packet. Every blend gets built in Fort Worth and tested the only place that counts — over a real pot, with real people.

— Somewhere between mild and fire

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New blends & drops, first

New blends, seasonal drops, and nothing else. No spam — the Texan way.