/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18136124
Because like almost any other food or dosh in the whole world it was made horribly and people base their entire opinion on that terrible example.

>>18136124
Depends on the sauce.

I think its just alright, nothing to write home about.
Dry meatloaf is absolutely disgusting and terrible tho

>>18136131
Yeah, before the internet was available to everyone, a VERY common recipe was to bake it in a bread loaf pan. Fucking everyone did it that way, and its literally simmering in a container of greasy meat juice.
For so long, everyone did it that way, and its gross. Its a boiled meat cake, and it earned a really bad reputation. Also social stigma for being extended with fillers and low class food.
Modern recipes can be quite good using proper techniques. But anyone with some years behind them remembers why its been considered bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_mNozo4yqM

>>18136124
Only if it's not covered in ketchup.

>>18136191
>>18136257

ketchup is mandatory.

>>18136274
GFTO, tastelet!

>>18136284
Ketchup is a fine sauce, within reason. It works fine with some things.

I think it's one of those situations where some TV writer didn't like his mom's meatloaf as a kid so like half the sitcoms on TV used "meatlaof is le bad" as an lazy bad joke, so it ingrained the idea that meatloaf is bad to tv addicts. Same thing happened to Arby's

>>18136124
some people thing vegetables are gross. the answer is that people are stupid and it's not worth your time trying to figure them out

>>18136421
The answer, in this case as well as meatloaf, is that people's moms can't cook. Which for zoomers and beyond is a near universal feature since women stopped cooking decently by like 1990 and entirely by 2000

>>18136124
>no slices of bacon strips on top
FUCK OFF HEALTH NUT!

>>18136124
The problem i have is that i need something else to balance out fatty ground meat. Imagine eating a hamburger patty on its own. You need the buns and vegetables.

>>18136235
I use that as the basis for my meatloaf nearly every time and it always comes out delicious. Chef Jeanne-Pierre's meatloaf also looks amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3DQRlF_qnM

>>18136257
I started to like meatloaf with gravy a lot more. I had it recently kind of like Swedish meatballs with cranberry sauce and brown gravy with onion and sour cream in it, that was really good too.

>>18136257
THIS
>>18136274
fuck you

I tried one with franks red hot sauce as the sauce, buffalo style, was good, but too salty.

>>18136518
>>18136530
Peach or apricot preserves are pretty damn good.

>>18136124
I don't get it either. Growing up, my mom would make meatloaf and everyone in my family would devour it -- everyone except for my sister. To this day she despises meatloaf no matter who makes it.

>>18136124
It's a loaf of low quality dog food with ketchup on it.
If it was good meat, meat loaf wouldn't be common.

>>18136124
my mom makes bomb meat loaf

>>18136235
Terrines are fine. Loafs baked in tall sided square pans are fine. They are not fine if you don't know what you're doing, even to the point of thinking these things are not fine. People thinking it's gross is the same mentality of
>eww aspic
They've simply been exposed to bad renditions.

>>18136518
>sear leftover meatloaf slices in pan to get a nice crust on 'em
>remove, add mushrooms, salt, and butter
>little flour, stir, then whatever wine you have kicking around the kitchen
It takes more time than just nuking up some after a 12 hour shift but it's almost always worth it. Love a meatloaf and gravy.

Meatloaf should be cooked on a baking tray, never a loaf pan. You form it into a loaf-football shape for maximum amount of crispy edges.

I like to top mine with smoked bacon, rosemary, and a glaze that is a mixture of dijon mustard and bourbon maple syrup.

>>18136865
>whatever wine you have kicking around the kitchen
Who the fuck just Has Wine in their kitchen? I have never opened a bottle and not finished it the same night and I'm not so baller as to just have a hundred bottles in stock in the cellar.

>>18137003
Some people have self control

>>18136871
>loaf-football shape for maximum amount of crispy edges
Toroid loaf is better

>>18137009
Yeah, you go to jerk off and just beat your meat for 2 minutes then stop without nutting too? People who only drink a little bit at a time are beyond retarded. Enjoy poisoning yourself with zero payoff.

>>18137024
It's called edging and it's very popular

>>18137003
I am not an alcoholic so I have a cheap bottle of white wine in my fridge I use for cooking

>>18137017
Yeah, but you need to make a pretty big batch of mix for something like that.

>>18137003
I dont drink wine, just beer and liquor, so I've had a bottle of red sitting on my counter for almost 3 weeks since the last recipe called for it, just finished it off smoking beef ribs tonight. Feels good not being dependent on a food ingredient.

>>18136300
This. My wife hated the idea of meatloaf when we first met, I enjoyed it growing up, a couple different recipes and now she loves when I make it. I always watched a Christmas story with disdain during the meatloaf scene and realized as I got older, her kids are just shits who don't appreciate a meal.

>>18136719
Your mom IS bomb meat loaf.

>>18136191
>>18136257
>>18136274
>>18136284
>>18136296
>>18136518
>>18136530
>>18136655
>>18136658
>>18136682
One of the most important secrets to good meatloaf is picrel

>>18136202
The secret to moist meatloaf is to use bread instead of bread crumbs, and soak the bread in milk before adding it to the meatloaf.

>>18136124
Because their parents can't fucking cook.

>>18136518
>Meatloaf is giant meatball
Never really thought of it this way, makes it more appetizing.
Still, I'd prefer meatballs fried crispy in shallow olive oil and beef fat I think.

>>18136682
Get an electric meat grinder, make your own minced meat. Make your own burgers, sausages, Bolognaise and meatloaf. Choose your cut of meat and your race of beef. Add your own eggs, salt, pepper, bread, chili, fresh herbs.

And don't fucking pour ketchup on that masterpiece.

>>18136191
>needing sauce

>>18138269
I hardly drink at all, maybe once or twice a month, but that is because I don't buy any hooch. If it's in the house I'm absolutely drinking it.

>>18139451
>And don't fucking pour ketchup on that masterpiece.
this

It seems like a waste of ingredients, if you have meat loaf ingredients, why not make something better?

>>18136124
single mom cooking where they cook it with the meat full of raw onions that either never get cooked or make her overcook the meat badly

raw onion in meatmix can actually work, but it needs to be salted and chilled for a day or so. It will soften up and distribute/mellow the onion flavor. Probably still doesn't do anything good for food safety in that case though.

>>18136235
I never noticed Food Wishes guy has 4 million subs
Never underestimate the power of a corny voice

>>18139951
... uhh, because I want meatloaf..? It's good with mashed potatoes and corn? Then I can have meatloaf sandwiches all week...? Duh..?

>>18136124
How do I get this shit to not fall apart? Do I literally have to go 1:1 on binders? Is overmixing a meme?

>>18136235
You are a fag meatloaf pans are old as dust the meatloaf doesn't just sit in the fat