I used to hate meatloaf until a few years ago. Here are a couple of me and my son's favorites. (Don't add salt to either recipe; there's plenty in the soup mix and crackers.)
More traditional recipe:
Add 3/4 c. Ketchup, 1 whole sleeve of saltine crackers (finely crushed into bread crumbs*), 1 envelope of Lipton Onion Soup mix, 5 slices American cheese (cut into little squares about 1/4"), and 2 eggs to 2 lbs. lean ground beef. Mix all together and shape into loaf in 13 x 9 casserole dish (Don't make it taller than about 2 1/2 - 3 inches so it can cook through, and leave space on all four sides so you can drain fat off later). Bake @ 325 degrees for about 50 minutes. Remove meatloaf and place 3 additional American cheese slices on top of loaf (I usually lay in diamond pattern) and return to oven for another 10 minutes. Remove from oven, carefully drain hot fat, then let rest for about 10 minutes. Slice and serve. Goes really well with mashed potatoes and green beans or broccoli.
*Place crackers in gallon zipper bag and MASH crackers with hand. When you can get most of air out of bag, seal bag and use your rolling pin to crush more finely. Just roll over bag and flip as many times as you need until you get fine crumbs.
Less traditional, but with even more onion and beef flavor (and faster!):
Add 1 envelope of Lipton's Beefy Onion soup mix to 1 pound of ground beef. Shape into mini loaves (3 or 4 per pound). Place on small rack in or over 13 x 9 casserole dish (I borrow the rack from my toaster oven; it's just wide enough to fit securely over my caserole dish.) Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. That's it! Easy and delicious!
Note: For an extra beefy kick, I'll add about 1 T. Better than Boullion Beef base to this mixture if I have it on hand, but you don't have to. The Beef base is salty as well so it's easy to overdo it if you're not careful with the measure.
Hope this helps! Happy eating!
I am cooking a 2 lb veal meat loaf (with no tomato topping, ug) in my convection oven @ 325' I use to cook it at 350' for an hour but it does look good after 50 minutes. I did take it out and my husband and I did eat it. It was fine. It could have been cooked longer if you wanted but is was very good as it was cooked.
Meatloaf usually takes about an hour to cook.
39 minutes, thirty-three seconds Call it 40 minutes
62 and a half minutes.
how long does it take to cook a ten pound meat loaf
Meatloaf is best cooked at 350 or 375 versus 400. Cook time varies depending on the shape of the meatloaf. It can be hand shaped into a round loaf or in a loaf pan. Internal temperature should be 170 degrees. To cook faster, you can shape it into two loafs and bake.
For 1lb I cook mine for 45-60 minutes. For 1lb I cook mine for 45-60 minutes.
Depends on how big it is. As a rule you should cook a 5lb meatloaf in a loaf pan for about 1 and a half hours at 325F. Cover with foil unless you put ketchup or catsup on top of it - you can brown it wen it's cooked. Best thing to do is to get a thermometer, once the meatloaf hits 160-165F internally then it should be moist and juicy and cooked. See my blog for the best turkey meatloaf recipe ever and for amazing and original turkey recipes. http://www.loveturkeymeat.info
Depending on how it is, you might throw it away or still cook/eat it.
Try using a dutch oven, a covered cooking pan that looks a lot like a casserole. There must be recipes for meatloaf using one of those.
Cook it 20 minutes per pound at 375 degrees or 30 minutes per pound at 250 degrees.
There is a website that contains easy to make meatloaf recipes called allrecipes.com. They have several great recipes for meatloaf including their prep and cook times. the site also includes the skill level needed to complete each recipe.
Make sure you preheat the oven to the degree that you want it at. Then, make sure that you don't take out the meatloaf before everything has been thoroughly cooked. You have to leave the meatloaf in the oven and don't take it out before it isn't finished cooking.