Smoked Meatloaf and General Update

I haven’t posted in a while. We moved from Utah to Florida and I had to dismantle my brew system and only take the essentials.  Some things like my brew stand didn’t make the cut, so I’m in the process of redesigning and rebuilding. 

In the meantime, here’s a smoked meatloaf recipe I made a couple days ago. It was awesome, and even my wife and son who don’t love meatloaf thought it was great. In hindsight, I wish I’d made two loaves so that we would have had enough for leftover meatloaf sandwiches. 

For this recipe I used the meatball/meatloaf blend that I picked up from Wild Fork. It’s a 1/3 each blend of beef, pork, and veal. I then supplemented it with 8oz of grass fed ground beef. For the BBQ sauce I used Kinder Hot BBQ sauce. Sadly I no longer have my Kamado smoker, but I picked up a Weber Searwood pellet smoker once we got settled in Florida. Here’s the recipe as I made it and credit to https://bakeitwithlove.com for the original recipe.

Ingredients

1.5 lbs Wild Fork Meatloaf Blend + 8oz Ground Beef

1/2c yellow onion (finely minced) 

2 large eggs

3 garlic cloves, minced

1/3c Kinder Hot BBQ mixed into the loaf

1/3c Kinder Hot for the glaze

½c Panko breadcrumbs

1t cayenne pepper

1t chili powder

1t salt

1t pepper

Instructions

1. Preheat your smoker to 275°F using your favorite hardwood. I went with Bear Mountain Gourmet BBQ Blend.
2. Combine all ingredients but the 1/3c sauce for the glaze; this will be added with one hour left in the cook. Mix just long enough that all ingredients are well combined.
3. Form your loaf then place it onto a wire rack. I used a shallow aluminum pan underneath the wire rack to catch any drippings.
4. Place the loaf in the smoker and cook at 275F for two hours. 
5. At the two hour mark, brush the meatloaf with the 1/3c of BBQ sauce.  
6. Continue in the smoker for another hour until the internal temp reaches 160F.  In my case, I ended up bumping the temp up to 300F for the last 15 minutes. 
7. Pull it off the smoker and let it rest for a few minutes before slicing. 

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