Most white trash meat loaf ever

Her recipes are all pretty white trash no matter how much she tries to hide that with her pretentious descriptions. She has no formal culinary training. She’s basically a home cook who got lucky…and extremely fat.

Love her - she's smart, sophisticated, good at what she does, yet relatable

Why is ketchup on meatloaf so offensive? It ain't a steak.

[Quote] Who puts ketchup to season their meatloaf?

Me!! Who doesn't, OP?

I wish I liked ground turkey but it tastes so mealy, even with a ton of glutamates in it (there would be a lot of sodium in that much Worcestershire sauce).

I would be really careful with ground turkey because I can imagine it’s made from turkey parts that were leftover from the portions sold as cutlets. Also, the amount of surface area in any ground meat must increase the potential for spoilage, so you really need to cook it thoroughly to avoid salmonella. I would overcook it and it would taste like particle board.

Ina must be so rich, and I would say that she has earned her stature as a food media presence and entrepreneur. I bet she is a tough broad. She must frequently endure being pestered by yentas and fraus like my big sister. A lot of viewers picture Ina as a form of muse and high priestess of prosperous, genteel lifestyles (her home and gardens are legit “baller”). I know she shuts down nosy, personal questions at book signings, and she should.

This early clip shows how sophisticated her programs’ production values have become since that time. Her recent material has amazing lighting and sound in that barn/studio structure. Her library of cookbooks is pretty awesome. I’d really like to know where those orange sofas are from. I think they’re really cool and really good looking .

Steam your meatloaf? No thank you.

Love her.

Who do you prefer?

Simply

Or

Barefoot

I put BBQ sauce in my meatloaf, and it is fabulous.

I make a ketchup glaze for my meatloaf. It’s American comfort food. Big whoop. Such snobbery is boring.

Meatloaf is just a rectangular-shaped burger, so ketchup is no big deal.

I mix ketchup, BBQ sauce, and brown sugar. I bake it a half hour covered, uncover and put the mixture on, and bake it another half hour. It makes a nice glaze. I prefer Martha Stewart's meatloaf recipe, but my husband likes the one with ketchup. We don't have it very often.

[quote]Who puts ketchup to season their meatloaf

I always laugh at people here who make this claims of class or elegance, but do so by making a comment on something that is by definition low class.

Meatloaf is a way to stretch cheap ground beef by adding fillers. Of course it's going to have stuff like ketchup.

OP's one of those people who says stuff like "who brings Jello salad to a potluck wedding. I can't imagine bringing something to the wedding potluck that isn't a real main or side."

R13 In my experience, people dive into lowbrow staples at potlucks. It’s actually pretty fun when someone says “oooh! Who brought (pigs in blankets/seven layer dip/deviled eggs/, etc.). I LOVE these!”.

I think it’s fun and convivial. I don’t eat that crap in real life, but roll with it at Super Bowl parties and places like that.

[quote][R13] In my experience, people dive into lowbrow staples at potlucks. It’s actually pretty fun when someone says “oooh! Who brought (pigs in blankets/seven layer dip/deviled eggs/, etc.). I LOVE these!”.

There is a forest desperately wanting to be seen if not for all these damn trees.

Ketchup has lycopene, so I don't know why people look down on it.

I season it with ketchup. And minced onion.

I’ve also started making a glaze from Dijon mustard, ketchup and a brown sugar. It’s delicious. I don’t care if it’s “trashy”, it tastes good.

But I can’t stand ground turkey; will only use beef.

It's really good ketchup you cunt!

Did she use the “good” ketchup?

Isn't ketchup a basic ingredient of meatloaf. What kind of bougie meatloaf are you guys making?

*PPPPPPPFFFFT* 💨

I'm a vegetarian, and even I know that ketchup is a traditional ingredient for meatloaf -and most every decent veggie loaf, too. Likewise hamburgers and veggie burgers. When it's right, it's right.

Ketchup on meatloaf? Yes. Ina Garten? Sure. The meatloaf in the OP link photo?

Absolutely not, Deborah Cox.

Let's look facts in the face:

Meat loaf was popularized during the Great Depression as a way for poorer families to extend meat. It typically consisted NOT just of hamburger meat but of other things as well, most often bread crumbs (which was how the meat was extended). It stayed popular during rationing for WWII, and exists to this day, although its popularity has diminished more and more.

It is inherently a trashy food, so complaining about a trashy way to serve it is pretty redundant.

Ketchup is ok, but I really would only buy the sugar-free form of it. They have some at Whole Foods and it’s useful.

My bigger issue is how old most Ketchup is in many homes. When I see a ring of brown crust around the bottle’s top it makes me heave. It probably has a long shelf life, but I think people keep it longer than is reasonable .

We've always done ghetto fabulous meat loaf - just good ground meat with onion, green pep, and shrooms mixed throughout and no bread

What about the dog food, R26?

My mom's meatloaf sandwiches were good for trade in the school lunchroom -anything you wanted! I had kids offering me their cupcakes, cookies, etc. Her secret? All the traditional, trashy things:

cheap ground beef cracker crumbs ketchup dried green pepper oatmeal (uncooked) eggs onion salt and pepper

With an additional layer of ketchup on top during baking, of course!

My meatloaf is made of ground.

Remember the dying child whose Make A Wish dream was to cook with Ina and she was captured on a smartphone chortling into her snifter with her nude hooves propped upon her hammock laughing "not in this lifetime, kiddo", before crumpling up his crayon drawing of two stick figure representations of himself and Ina smiling in her kitchen with the Grim Reaper waiting by the stove? That always struck me as a little cold.

Meatloaf? Yes! But with actual meat: beef, pork, veal, or some combo thereof NOT Buzzardloaf. The only way I can conceieve the idea of Turkey mince as a good idea is if it were paired with stuffing mix, and smothered in a rich herby turkey gravy. Mushrooms and white wine might help it along. Ina seems a bit weird to me at times. This is one of those times.

R30, but how do you know that actually occurred? It sounds like a story made up by some jealous p.r. flack. And didn't she eventually capitulate and see the kid?

I make the Ann Landers meatloaf, which is extra-trashy because it has both ketchup AND Lipton Onion Soup mix.

The definitive Datalounge meatloaf recipe.

Ketchup is very common for meatloaf and adds a good acid and moisture to the dish.

OP has egg on his face. Epic fail.

I also use ketchup for meatloaf even though I don't normally use ketchup for anything else. And R29 had the funniest comment of the night!

Ketchup is basically a gastrique, a reduction of sugar and vinegar, often blended into a fruit sauce with many variations. Chefs use gastriques to add a complex depth of flavor to otherwise bland dishes. Like meatloaf.

R37 - actually, originally ketchup was a vegetable-based (celery, roots, etc.) concoction to put on expired meat to cover the taste. Then Heinz switched it to a tomato-based version, which is had previously never been.

But your comment holds - it's a reduction of tomatoes, sugar and vinegar and goes extremely well with meatloaf.

Ketchup mixed with a little brown sugar and smoked paprika is fantastic on meatloaf.

I love ketchup, but not so much in meatloaf. Maybe just plan tomato sauce would be better. Or switch it up and use barbecue sauce.

That's true, R38. I've read a few old non tomato-based ketchup recipes, though I've never been tempted to try them. We're on the same page.

I use ground beef, ground pork sausage, Italian breadcrumbs, eggs, milk, BBQ sauce, minced onions, minced celery, capers, smoked paprika, Old bay, parsley, sage, salt, pepper and Worcester sauce.

Makes great sandwiches and I use the recipe for meatballs too.

No ketchup on top of the meatloaf, though. That always seemed a bridge too far.

Nothing Ina does could be considered “white trash.” Shame on you, OP.

[bold] A thread where DLers from White Trash backgrounds (e.g. most of them) attempt to prove that they have overcome their backgrounds and are now Hi-Klass Aye-Gayz

R24 "Let's look facts in the face:

Meat loaf was popularized during the Great Depression as a way for poorer families to extend meat. It typically consisted NOT just of hamburger meat but of other things as well, most often bread crumbs (which was how the meat was extended). It stayed popular during rationing for WWII, and exists to this day, although its popularity has diminished more and more.

It is inherently a trashy food, so complaining about a trashy way to serve it is pretty redundant."

My grandmother, as well as my mother, and myself, have never used ketchup in or on a meatloaf. They did however annually garden, canned, and made their own tomato sauce entirely from scratch. The meatloaf I always grew up on was essentially a traditional meatball mix recipe (blend of beef/pork/veal, fresh onions and garlic and parsley, either breadcrumbs or stale bread soaked in milk...), pressed into a loaf pan and topped with some homemade sauce. No ketchup or brown sugar or BBQ sauce... The tomato sauce itself on top would condense down and thicken as the meatloaf baked, and add a slight sweetness naturally.

Chilled leftovers were awesome on some crusty Italian bread with some Pecorino Romano.

I thought meatloaf being trashy was a given. Who the fuck is making fancy meatloaf? WTF are you adding? Some sort of "reduction"? It's meatloaf!

I make my meatloaf with a panade and ketchup.

Frito pie is white trash food.

Meatloaf is classic American comfort food.

As someone upthread pointed out, a meatloaf is basically just a rectangular burger. Why WOULDN'T you put ketchup on it?

It does differ in one crucial aspect: A day-old or two-day-old burger is gross, but meatloaf sandwiches can be one of the most delicious leftovers imaginable.

That meatloaf looks dry AF.

One of my exes used to call meatloaf “meat cake”. I guess it is pretty much a meat cake lol. I enjoy it if it’s done right, but it seems hard to perfect.

A couple of things:

Meatloaf cannot be made with ground turkey. That would be Poultryloaf.

Calling something "white trash" is racist, as it implies one race is inferior or superior to another. Just stop it.

Thank you for policing and correcting our language, R52.

Maybe you can go on Bowen Yang's podcast and make some "Me Too" Meatloaf.

It was my pleasure to correct you R53. I appreciate the link, but I do not do podcasts.

I use ketchup mixed with hot sauce to give it some kick. I put corn and red and white onions in it. My friends and family often request that I make it for them. It is just junky comfort food.

A mustard glaze is so much nicer than tomato frosting.

Meatloaf is not trashy. Most cuisine is a way to stretch A small portion of meat to feed everyone. Wrapping it in dough, grinding or slicing it up and putting it in a pie or over rice, adding vegetables, etc.

Being nasty about meatloaf doesn’t make you “classy”, folks.

^Quite. Threads such as these seem to be nothing more than pathetic gestures for attention.

Before someone writes it -yet here I am commenting! YES, trolls, where else would I go to ridicule your efforts than your witless thread?

We've done this before, many times. On 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (Dec 2020 - Jan 2021), I posted @R38:

In both meatballs and meatloaf I use a combination of ground beef (preferably 90% lean, which I haven't been able to get since coronavirus got underway) and Owens Hot Sausage (pictured at post on the thread, link below)

With the meatballs I use canned dried breadcrumbs as a filler, along with grated Parmesan or Romano, salt, black pepper, granulated garlic and dried basil as seasonings, a couple of eggs, and some tomato paste.

Meatloaf gets oats as filler, along with minced garlic, diced onion and bell pepper. Eggs, ketchup, Worcestershire, black pepper, ground celery powder, and Knorr's 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑑𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑠 (beef broth powder) instead of salt, with Heinz 57 sauce on the tops of the individual loaves.

Ketchup is a wonderful base for stir fry! Use a dollop with olive oil, vegetables, cubed meat and rice. I stopped using sriracha because it’s absolutely LOADED with sodium.

Ugh! Ina Farten can take her gastritis of the bowels and go fart somewhere else!!!! She’s a fat slob!!!

[quote] It sounds like a story made up by some jealous p.r. flack. And didn't she eventually capitulate and see the kid?

It was widely reported. The family was on several major news outlets s. She did eventually cowtow to the negative publicity, but by that point, she had been such a cunt, the family declined to see her fat arse.

I had a fancy meatloaf that had whole eggs in the center. You'd slice the meatloaf and get a ring of egg in the center. I can't remember where that was. I, too, use ketchup in my meatloaf, and enjoy the meatloaf sandwich the next day more than the meatloaf dinner.

My mom used to make it and it was more loaf than meat. Too many crackers, and she put chopped-up celery in it and I hated that crunch.

Who the fuck uses turkey for meatloaf?

The thought of ground turkey gives me dry heaves

I thought meatloaf was super WASPy?

[quote]OP has egg on his face. Epic fail.

R63 and Joan Crawford have eggs IN THEIR MEATLOAF. That's an epic fail to me.

You think just because you made a little money, you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes, and you look down your nose on meatloaf and ketchup that you can turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing.

R69 Veda, don’t!

[quote]Steam your meatloaf? No thank you.

I have steamed mini meatloaves on the stove and they're just fine.

Back in the 1970s mom would make mini individual meatloaves on the stove top but she didn't want to steam them, so she cooked them on a medium-low temperature in a deep skillet and flipped them so every side got some heat. She used the same stuff in her meatloaf that you guys all said should go in hamburgers in that disaster of a hamburger thread recently: dried onion flakes, onion and garlic powder, an egg for binder, A1 sauce, and of course salt and pepper.

Ironic--and classically, despondent DL--that most of you frowning upon the benefits of a good, hearty meatloaf live in your mum's basement, with not even an electrical outlet for a hotplate.

How come what you eat or how you cook can make you considered trashy, but looking down on someone for what they eat doesn't? This world is so screwed up.

R57 - I agree. Many dishes that we know were made to stretch food. It doesn't make them low class.

French Toast? That's the stale left-over bread from the night before that gets another life with an egg batter.

There are dishes in every cuisine that stretches food or leftovers.

Knowing what a Fat Cunt Ina is, are we really sure that's actually ground turkey? It's probably ground up babies and aborted fetuses. She just calls it turkey to throw everyone off. Bitch face slag.

Italians have been putting hard-boiled eggs in meatloaf since forever. We make it with tomato sauce that has cinnamon added. Delicious.

R76 here - clarification - not the recipe we use.

Is the kid still alive?

My mother was the worst cook ever, with many abominations in her arsenal, but perhaps her worst was her meatloaf. Listening to her squelch the meat and ketchup together would send a chill up my spine. To this day I will not eat it in any form, which I’m sure is my loss in many instances, but the aversion goes deep.

[quote]Listening to her squelch the meat and ketchup together would send a chill up my spine.

😂

[quote]Steam your meatloaf? No thank you.

How do you feel about steamed hams?

[quote] Italians have been putting hard-boiled eggs in meatloaf since forever.

Brazilians, too.

People named Joan, too.

Joan’s meatloaf includes a splash of vodka…as do the rest of her personal recipes.

Stop spreading lies R84.

Joan's favorite recipe.

[quote]Who puts ketchup to season their meatloaf?

Who the fuck makes meatloaf with fucking TURKEY?

Why would you make that for your boss?

Ina wanted to serve a comforting and unpretentious meal to a VIP in her kitchen. Not a snooty ten course meal with exotic ingredients. Ina served parmesan mashed potatoes and roasted brussel sprouts with the loaf, sounds tasty.

[quote] Stop spreading lies [R84].

Okay.

Did you know Anus Garten is a superstar? Me either.

You want a trashy turkey meatloaf? Try this one from Katie Lee (I actually made it.)

You haven't mentioned my meatloaf recipe. Cooked in a crockpot over frozen O'Brien potatoes, and it has jarred mushrooms, Shake and Bake mix, onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup AND cream of cheddar soup!!!!

What about NUTloaf?

Fartloaf.

Ketchup belongs on meatloaf as a glaze on hot meatloaf or a condiment on cold meatloaf sandwiches.

The best turkey loaf I ever made had corn bread and schmaltz in it.

R93 The scathing reviews there are priceless. She really outdid herself there with that one, didn't she?

R93 Stay near the toilet.

[quote]The best turkey loaf I ever made had corn bread and schmaltz in it.

R97 What is 'schmaltz'?

Ina is always near a toilet between her farts and shits.

r100 Schmaltz is chicken fat.

[quote]You haven't mentioned my meatloaf recipe. Cooked in a crockpot over frozen O'Brien potatoes, and it has jarred mushrooms, Shake and Bake mix, onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup AND cream of cheddar soup!!!!

You definitely win the prize for white trashiest, but I've never heard of Cream of Cheddar soup. Did you mean Campbell's Cheddar Cheese soup?

Diseased trash OP has been Red-Tagged today!

r100 : Normally called chicken fat referred to as "shmaltz" by Jewish people.

R103 honey, you're right. It's 1 can condensed Cheddar soup. I'll fix that in a second. Imma little busy.

In Canada, or at least some parts of Canada, we eat it with this instead of the ketchup on top. Never made with anything spicy.

If anyone served me "meatloaf" period that'd be a wrap and the uber would be around the corner in 10 minutes. What is this 1978?

R92, that recipe actually sounds good to me. I must be craving Thanksgiving dinner!

R108 - no wonder you're single.

Latecomer here. My friend had "Meatloaf of the Gods" at a Madison diner, and we got the recipe and made it tonight. It's delicious. It's a large recipe but you can make hash or sandwiches with the leftovers.

Some of us find meatloaf comforting. YMMV

R111 That looks good, almost too good for this thread! If I may suggest, you might consider sharing this recipe on the related thread below. (which also wasn't started by a Troll)