To make truly spectacular meatloaf you must do two things:
1) Grind your own meat. With a meat grinder, not a food processor or some other gadget. A real meat grinder.
2) Mix in your ingredients with your hands, and keep everything nice a cold. Don't compress it, just fluff the meat and ingredients together. If you are using bread crumbs make sure they are fresh and homemade. And don't be shy with the heat. Chipotles are great in meat loaf.
Tonight I ground up a chuck roast and an equal amount of sirloin steak and made three hamburgers (there were three of us eating.) If you haven't had a hamburger using meat you ground yourself 10 minutes before cooking, well, you haven't had a hamburger. I have three pounds of ground beef that is going to be turned into a meatloaf for tomorrow's dinner. Can't wait.
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