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Here's a meatloaf recipe I modified a bit from The Smoking Pit barbecue site. 4.5 lbs. of ground beef mixed with bacon, medium cheddar cheese, Ketchup, BBQ sauce, spices and Worcestershire. Smoked low & slow with hickory.

Get your cooker pre-heating to 250 degrees, add a couple chunks of hickory. Cook 9 strips of sliced bacon. Once the bacon is crisp, crumble it as we will mix it into the meat later on.

In a medium mixing bowl combine the following ingredients:

4 Eggs
1/2 Cup Ketchup
1/2 Cup BBQ sauce (your call)
1/2 Cup Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tsp. Black Pepper
1 Tbsp. Minced Garlic

Mix the ingredients thoroughly.

Place 4.5 lbs. of 90/10 ground beef into a large mixing bowl. Using your fingers poke holes into the meat. This allows the egg mixture to be mixed in with ease. Next pour the egg mixture over the meat. Thoroughly mix the liquid into the meat. At this point the mixture will be quite moist waiting for the solid ingredients.

Mix the following ingredients in a medium bowl:
1 Cup Chopped Red Onion
2 Cups Shredded Medium Cheddar
1 Cup Italian Bread Crumbs
The crumbled bacon

Pour over and thoroughly mix the ingredients into the beef mixture. Place the meat on aluminum foil and form one large meatloaf. Once the meatloaf is formed carefully place a greased smoking rack on top of the meatloaf. Flip meatloaf onto greased rack. Reshape the meatloaf. Squeeze on some BBQ sauce (I used Famous Dave's Sweet and Tangy...not very tangy). Coat the top and sides.

Here's a picture of the meatloaf waiting for it's smoke bath. Smiler



Place the meatloaf's near the center of your smoker. The smoker should be pre-heated to 250 degrees. Pull the meatloaf when the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees, about 2 hr. Let stand covered 15-20 minutes. Once rested, slice and serve.

Here’s pictures of the finished work of art:







The meatloaf was smokey, flavorful and moist. Delicious. I'd call it tender, but I've never eaten a tough meatloaf. Big Grin My family loved it and are now looking forward to meatloaf sandwiches. The bacon flavor seemed to be lost in this recipe so next time I'll double the amount of bacon.

This is a very easy recipe to make and requires little preparation time. Meatloaf sandwiches tonight...meatloaf lightly grilled in butter. Cool

Picture quality could be a tad better using my Canon, but the pictures automatically download to my computer using my IPhone. So easy, can't pass it up.
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Dang it pags- My agenda for my food weekend was, prime rib, salmon, ribs, pork butt<--(for next week meals). I can't squeeze in a meatloaf. But I must try! I swear, if smoked meatloaf was on a menu next to prime rib or steak, I would have a hard decision. Love me some meatloaf!

I never thought of adding shredded cheese. So how about some smoked shredded cheese? Smiler
Oops!! Sorry guys. It tastes great. Meatloaf love smoke.

Had a sandwich for lunch, and after an overnight rest, I could pick up some bacon flavor. Unlike some food, meatloaf leftovers are pretty good.

Still looking forward to the grilled meatloaf sandwiches for dinner tonight. After last night's dinner (4 of us) and today's lunch (2 of us), still over half left over.

If you're not into sealing and freezing for future meals, downsize the recipe.
Sorta interested in the cheese ratio. Back in a previous sausage making incarnation I tried making a jap and cheese variant and got it way overdosed on the cheese. Great taste but gave a greasy mouth feel. My pal Big Dave Pauling done some sums on it and decided 1.2 oz of cheese per pound of meat was about right. That give good flavor but not the mush mouth stuff. Looks like your pretty close to the recommend weight limit. How much does a cup of shredded cheese weigh? lol. I even tricked somebody into mailing us some high temp rated specimens. That stuff dont melt but tastes like sheet if nobody aint tried it. Kindly keep up the good work.
Sounds and looks mighty good. Thanks for the recipe. The meat ration is real close to how the nice Eyetalian Lady from Noo Yawk City taught me how to make meat balls many moons ago. Me and her use massive amounts of fresh garlic..but no onions. Now I do slip a little granulated onion in there sometimes. Hope she don't find out about that..lol.

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