How do you cook a meatloaf without all the greasy mess at the bottom?

Question

Everytime I cook a meatloaf, wheather it be in a loaf pan or on a cookie sheet, the bottom of the loaf is always so greasy. No one in my family will eat the bottom of the loaf because it's so nasty. Any tips on how I can cook it without it being greasy on the bottom?

Answer 1

Get those pans for meatloaf that have two pans, one that sits in another and has holes in the bottom to drain the grease, my boss has one.

Answer 2

I have never had this problem with my meatloaf and I make one at least every other week. I use oatmeal as a filler, lean ground beef,turkey , or lamb or a combination of all three ground meats.And if there is any grease in the pan I just drain it off right when I bring it out of the oven. But I rarely have any
grease in the pan.I do not use any special pan just a glass loaf pan.

Answer 3

Get a brad pan with a lift out( a tray to lift the bread out). Put something in the bottom of the pan that will life it off the bottom about a 1/2 inch and there you go. I like the greasy part. Makes an awesome sandwich.

Answer 4

Ground beef has lots of grease in it. Thats how it's ground. You can lessen this by getting the ground beef that has the least amount of fat ratio to beef (should say on the package). This can be expensive though and will definately taste different. The fat is what helps with the flavor.

One way my mom used to to is scrunch up some aluminum foild and make a bedding underneath the meat but then the meat can stick to the foil. I don't recommend this method but in a pinch, it works.

What I do is use one, preferably two, cooking cooling racks. These are the racks you put the cookies on to cool after baking. Put one on top of the other, and the meat on top of the racks. This way the meat doesn't sit in the grease. Also a good way to cook sausage in the oven. If the racks won't stay on top of each other, then you can use little pieces of metal wire to tie them together. The McGuyver way would be to use the twist ties from your trash bags, bread bags or whatever and take the paper off of them. Or burn it off until it's just the metal. Make sure you wash it after burning though. This should be enough to tie the racks together.

Answer 5

hi
my children love meat loaf, when Im making it I will usually turn it over once the bottom is done good, because meats do
cook in their own oil, you could once its cooked to your liking
put your meat loaf in another dish. do you add any type of sauce to your loaf? I do, and thats ALL they see at the bottom along with veggies its cooked with.

Answer 6

By using 90% lean ground sirloin instead of using the regular store brand ground beef which can have as much as 30% fat.
Putting 2 parts of bredcrumbs into the mix also helps allot.

Answer 7

Try one or more of these...

Add more "filler". I use oatmeal and it works great but you could also use bread or cracker crumbs. Add more if you already use any of the above.

Cook it on a rack on the cookie sheet.

Make it out of ground round or buffalo burger. They are both very lean.

Remove it from the oven as soon as it sets up and drain the fat off, then put it back in to finish cooking.

Bert

Answer 8

Just form your loaf and place it on a broiler pan (this will have holes or slits for the grease to drain off.

Answer 9

My mom puts saltine crackers in the meatloaf but i heard that some people put bread in the bottom.

Answer 10

The southern trick is to place a couple of slices of white bread in the bottom of your pan. The bread will soak up all the extra grease..........