Meatloaf • 9.17.24

[@eevee_em]

In case anyone doesn't know: meatloaf is usually made by mixing ground meat (traditionally beef, but you can use anything) with breadcrumbs and eggs. But there are a million variations. I've had meatloaf that was "meh" and meatloaf that was to die for, it really depends on the recipe and who's making it. Also, you can make ketchup into a glaze by adding brown sugar to it, I'm guessing that's why it was so sweet.

[@zimmercj]

Meatloaf will always be the best safeword because "I would do anything for love but I won't do that".

[@mcintoshpc]

Alternate title: “I didn’t think you were Meatloaf Queen or anything”

[@SnooDoodle]

Damn, that oven whistle sounds like a dry wind cutting through a valley... Free haunting audio sample for your Fruit RPG, that.

[@Haroldm814]

Homemade meatloaf is delicious. We make it a good amount in my house. We use BBQ sauce on top instead of ketchup. You guys should look up a recipe online and make it. Also don't put it in a loaf pan, just cook it in a glass baking dish.

[@Mcl_Blue]

Been a while since we last heard Whistly, makes me realize how long there hasn't been any cooking streams for.

[@BlameThande]

I think Mal might want to do a pickle soup one at some point judging by her enthusiasm on the last couple of Breakfast Streams.

[@tedhorton6315]

I prefer meatloaf with brown gravy instead of ketchup. Mal mentioned the sweetness due to ketchup, and that seems to be the main way it is served in many places.

[@RoboticYeti]

I feel like meatloaf is one of those meals that can really differ depending on the recipe and who is making it. My Mom’s never had that ketchup sauce or whatever that is covering it and it was never sweet. She’d put a little BBQ sauce on top but you could ignore it if you wanted. I always liked the chunks of onions she’d cook in it. I’d also often eat the leftovers in a hamburger bun the next day so I feel you on the burger thing!

[@KevinTheTimeGeek86]

My mom's homemade meatloaf was a comfort food to me. Since I moved in with my brother and his family, I've had his, and it's just as good. I'm glad for that, because I'd be feeling a bit more miserable otherwise.

[@jacobsamanie6630]

Meatloaf was a pretty common thing in my house growing up. It was probably my favorite food throughout most of my childhood. Though I've always preferred pouring brown gravy over it rather than the ketchup lol We would also do bacon wrapped meatloaf every now and then which was pretty good.

[@ardianahyseni1751]

We need more food challenges with Stephen and Mal

[@Swishyhead]

The KitKat Anniversary Challenge is still one of my favourite things from the vlog.

[@KneeDeep2231]

I love when my mom makes meatloaf, we don’t have it very often at all but I love when we do have it

[@Rojaniel]

Meatloaf has always been one of my favorite meals. It's always been really filling. If you know what you're doing, if you season it right, it's dang good.

[@charlottedante]

Meatloaf occupies the same space as Salisbury steak for me: as a kid, I wouldn’t touch it. As an adult, I can appreciate that there are better meatloafs (meatloaves?) and Salisbury steaks than the ones served at school lunches. … And I’m now realizing that a Salisbury steak is really just the dish in between meatballs and meatloaf. Choose your character!

[@NooBHatteR112]

The costco meatloaf is a staple in my household, we love it and leftovers make fantastic sandwiches with the addition of dill

[@Madriddler]

Meatloaf is a winter food to me. You eat it when it's nice and cold out!

[@JackitK]

Whistly returns!

[@MonochromeXC]

Meatloaf has definitely been a staple in my family for many many years. I can't speak for the costco meatloaf because I've never tried it, but homemade meatloaf is great. The recipe that we use isn't just ground beef with a ketchup glaze, it also has onions and stuffing mixed in with the meat, and the glaze is a mix of ketchup and bbq sauce. Maybe you guys could try making a homemade meatloaf too and see how it compares to the costco one

[@The_Dork_Lord_of_Chaos]

It's interesting hearing how you haven't had meatloaf much, or beef, for that matter! For me, beef was always more common than any other meat growing up, once I stopped being a picky eater lmao. Meatloaf's been an occasional staple for my family my whole life, though, even back when I didn't eat it. It's a really diverse dish! My dad adds onions and carrots to the mix when he makes it

[@MrCJHardcore]

My mom has made several variations of meatloaf over the years. It doesn't matter what ground meat you use, meatloaf will always taste like meatloaf. You can jazz it up with bacon-wrapped meatloaf, you can mix shredded cheese into the meat, you can even put it between two slices of bread and make a meatloaf sandwich, but meatloaf will taste the same no matter what you do to it. Those are my experiences, at least. But one thing is for sure, it pairs extremely well with ketchup.

[@Digits0801]

When I was staying with a friend, he and his family made meatloaf and it was sooooo goood. I love the sauce because it reduces and caramelizes and it's

[@tedhorton6315]

I can hear paradise by the whistling oven's light.

[@Swishyhead]

🎵Ain't no doubt about it! We were doubly blessed. 'Cause the oven's whistly keen's making Stephen stressed🎵

[@ThunderHam]

So, about the mustard. When my mom makes meatloaf, she mixes spicy brown mustard in with the raw meat (along with several out things), so mustard is not that far fetched. Although lately we’ve been enjoying a thanksgiving meatloaf recipe her and my sister found (not sure where, I’d have to ask), which has stuffing/dressing and cranberries.

[@DonnieReno]

I use a meatloaf recipe from my sister-in-law. We make it without using any kind of a filler, no breadcrumbs, no oatmeal. We use a pound of ground beef, a pound of ground pork, and a pound of Italian sausage then add the onions and garlic salt and pepper and whatever else the recipe calls for. Then we just shape it into a loaf. It kinda looks like a football actually. Then we just put it on a sheet, not into a loaf pan. Then cook and eat. Much lower carbs. And then we will sometimes make meatloaf sandwiches so that makes it kind of like a hamburger that we can put on bread and add tomato pickle, onion slices, etc.

[@DarianHarder]

What do you use for a binder @@DonnieReno ?

[@comander13]

That is close to what I make except I throw mushrooms and bell pepper in mine. Also, throw some Worcestershire Sauce in there for taste.

[@DarianHarder]

@@DonnieReno ours is 1½ Pounds 90% lean ground beef 1 Cup ketchup or tomato sauce (plus extra for serving, or can serve with chili sauce to avoid “sweetness” issue) ¾ Cup Quaker® Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked) 1 egg or 2 egg whites, lightly beaten ¼ Cup chopped onion ½ Teaspoon salt (optional) ¼ Teaspoon black pepper

[@DonnieReno]

@@DarianHarder No binder. It will hold up, take my word for it. 1 lb each ground beef, pork sausage, Italian sausage. 2 eggs Tomato sauce 1 cup Parmesan cheese Chopped onion Minced garlic Salt & pepper 1/2 teaspoon sage Mix it all together with hands and shape into a sort of loaf. Mine usually is shaped like a football. Put on a baking sheet and cook at 350°F for about 1 hour 15 minutes.

[@DarianHarder]

Looks like the cheese might count as a binder @@DonnieReno

[@spriddlez]

Wow you weren't kidding that the oven is called whistly

[@Icywolfoskelsos]

I don't think I've ever had meatloaf in a traditional sense. I've had it growing up of a different variation of it. Basically a meatball with rice in a loaf pan with tomato sauce. It was good tho. Nowadays I add wine to the tomato sauce and it's 👌🏻

[@WaveK89]

My mother would do tomato paste on top. I'm not sure if she did anything special with tomato paste, but it had the thickness it. She also used oatmeal instead of breadcrumbs in the loaf. It's a dish she loved and grew up with, but I always thought of it as meh and unexciting. At the same time, I do miss it ever since she passed. Funny how life is like that.

[@kriijan3747]

When you mentioned meatloaf on stream the other day I pictured something very different, like a much simpler version of beef Wellington. I certainly didn't expect it to be just ground beef with a ketchup glaze.

[@circlenowsquared]

Is it not a common thing where you're from?

[@kriijan3747]

@@circlenowsquared Not at all, in fact I'm pretty sure it's a very American thing

[@OctoberDoesArt]

I, like many, have only eatem my mom's meatloaf, and even then it took me a bit to fully appreciate it. We made ours with onion soup mix and i DESPISE dried onion, especially in meat or sauces. Once we started to sift them out it became a staple of mine to make. We, however, never put ketchup or barbecue on top. We do gravy, and only for an added topping, not to cook it in.

[@DarianHarder]

It’s so easy to make our recipe used oatmeal instead of bread crumbs though. My grandmother uses chili sauce instead of ketchup as a topping

[@Stephen_Adegun]

When I saw this in my sub box I misread it and thought it said something like "Three meatloafs between us," and I got confused about what was going on for that to have happened.

[@somemikekid]

Still learning things about each other after all these years.

[@BlameThande]

Meatloaf is one of those American things I only ever heard about through Peanuts strips and barely knew it was a real thing (see also baseball and root beer). Also that post-production cutting out of Whistly's sound is really impressive!

[@GoldShockAttack]

My Mom's meatloaf has a bit of brown sugar mixed with ketchup for the topping. If this is similar, that could be why it tasted so sweet

[@KazeNinja17]

Meatloaf isn't a staple in my family, but we definitely have it at least three to four times a year. Lol

[@FennecWolfoxxie]

I grew up eating with the ketchup topping but my husband's family introduced me to putting cheese in the center and bbq sauce glaze... I cannot go back now lol

[@andrealaurenmunoz]

You can dress up meatloaf however you want. It’s intended to be a flexible dish

[@nishka_w]

As a child of immigrants, I think I also only had meatloaf once or twice as a child. My mom probably made it to humor us asking for more American food instead of rice and curry every night. I’m not super fond of it, but it’s more of a texture issue for me. It felt a little spongy, and that with a beefy taste does not sit well with me

[@Swishyhead]

I don't tend to like meatloaf, but my mom's is very good. She puts brown gravy on it rather than ketchup, which helps immensely.

[@jazzygirl310]

So I may or may not have had meatloaf for dinner because of this vlog.... 😅

[@casualmusicnerd]

I had never heard of meatloaf using ketchup or BBQ sauce until this vlog, every meatloaf I’ve ever had used brown gravy. I would probably like it with ketchup although like with Stephen that might trigger the burger part of my tastebuds.

[@MajorIconsStudio]

The Costco meatloaf isn't actually that recent I feel, though I don't know if the meatloaf has been available in your area until recent or not. Either way, I'm a fan of it; a helpful meal in a pinch.

[@radiodread]

I'm on the opposite side of you two; we had meatloaf a _lot_ when Dad was still with us. After that (he passed in Oct 2018) I haven't had meatloaf at all, because I kind of got tired of that kinda food. I mostly eat chicken these days and very rarely beef, because chicken is 1) cheaper and 2) I honestly like it more than any other meat. The Swedish meatloaf variant is pretty different to the one you had since, among other things, we definitely don't 'glaze' it in ketchup (and it sounds like that's a thing Americans do?). I think that would absolutely make me like it less. :P

[@circlenowsquared]

That's so fascinating that meatloaf is a thing in Sweden! We always had it with ketchup in my house, I didn't know people did gravy or BBQ until more recently.

[@circlenowsquared]

I love meatloaf, likely because I'm a huge fan of red meat, it is basically just ground beef and ketchup and that's MY JAM. We had it a few times a year growing up, so I've had it a lot. Now I want to try this from Costco! (Costco pls sponsor)

[@MissNintendique]

Meatloaf is better when you make it yourself, with my family it's just simple: ground beef with salt, pepper, minced onions, breadcrumbs, an egg, yellow mustard and tomato sauce (I don't know why people use ketchup). Then we put it in a baking dish, place chunks of block cheese in it, ad some more tomato sauce on top, cover in foil then bake it until it's cooked all the way through.

[@Halcryder]

Extended vlog title: A Grand Total of 3 Meatloaves

[@PhoeniksStorm]

Would you say Stephen. That you'd do anything for love, except that one thing, whatever it is

[@LuckyJayVT]

I had meatloaf like once in my life and it was simply okay 😆 Tbf I'm not a fan of beef in general so that's the best score it was ever gonna get

[@SSJ3Goku90]

.... Yeah, knowing Stephen, him having meatloaf only once tracks.

[@MikeCappella98]

My mom made meatloaf a couple times growing up and it never was popular. Not that my mom is a bad cook. No one likes it in my family on top of the fact that me and my brother were very picky eaters (I still am). My brother would eat it with pasta sauce to treat it like a meatball. I never cared for it. I wouldn’t even touch this because I don’t like ketchup.

[@HeadsetGuy]

The fact that you wanted mustard on your meat loaf is not at all insane. A lot of meat loaf recipes I've seen include mustard as part of the sauce. ...Not that I'm a fan of mustard, but it is fairly common.

[@AnthonySmith-bj9mo]

hi StephenVlog

[@wtfgonbd]

Stephen, stop being a weirdo lol. Meatloaf is amazing. Maybe Mal should try and make some home made and I bet you would enjoy it way more

[@CardinalBirbRose]

oven algorithm comment

[@crimsongamer2337]

I've never had meatloaf, then again I'm not American, nor is it as common here in England far as I know.

[@FixTheWi-Fi]

Took this long to have this be the title of a vlog huh.

[@mcintoshpc]

I’ve never really liked meatloaf. It’s not bad by any means, I just think it’s really boring and I can’t explain why.

[@PuppyLuver256]

So there's something I don't understand: you'll take the time to edit out the oven whistling, but not the eating sounds? Is it just that much more work to do where you don't consider it worth the time? Do you just not hear the eating sounds at all somehow?? Like I have my volume turned down on my end and am listening through my monitor's lackluster built-in speakers and I can _still_ hear them to the point of nausea, please, someone reassure me that I'm not alone in this being An Issue...

[@Kamakiri86]

You may have something called Misophonia "People with misophonia are affected emotionally by common sounds - usually those made by others, and usually ones that other people don't pay attention to. Ex: breathing, yawning, or chewing". Might be something to look into.✌

[@PuppyLuver256]

@@Kamakiri86 Appreciate the suggestion (and I mean this genuinely! 💖) but I am, both fortunately and unfortunately, well aware of my having misophonia. Fortunately because "oh good there's a name for it which means others feel my pain" and unfortunately because "okay so I know What's going on but Too Few Other People Seem To Notice Or Care". I guess my lament about hoping I'm not alone in that was more in the sense of hoping that I'm not the only one here who would greatly appreciate at least _some_ courtesy editing done on the eating sounds if at all feasible, 'specially since he's already said he records room noise for such purposes of muting Ol' Whistley during cooking clips and other such obnoxiousness that's more noticeable to most people. Last time I commented along those lines I got a reply from someone who couldn't hear them at all and then proceeded to bring up a previous joke vlog with intentionally loud chewing sounds For The Joke as a sort of bizarre counterargument to...my disgust at ambient chewing?? As if that was even relevant to trying to listen to Stephen talk while there was chewing in the background?? Like I still don't care for it when it's just For The Joke, but at least then I can turn my volume down further and not miss the actual discussion topic of the vlog...

[@stochaztic]

The whistling sound is a consistent particular frequency that can be isolated and removed without affecting any other sounds. It is not possible to remove eating sounds in the same way.

[@PuppyLuver256]

@@stochaztic Ah, makes sense now that it's laid out. Shows how much I know about the audiovisual editing then, don't it :P