All About Meatloaf

Series Summary

Meatloaf is the ultimate classic comfort food. For many of us who grew up in the 20th century, the scent of meatloaf baking in the oven conjures up images of a time when families, in some form or other, gathered around a table to eat and talk about their day. Rich Buccola is going to tell you how to pick the best beef for meatloaf, how to chop & mix all the ingredients and bake up this loaf of nostalgia to perfection.

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Rich Buccola here in NYC and on behalf of Expert Village today we're going to show you some great comfort food and making meatloaf. Rich here for Expert Village we're going to show you how to make meatloaf today all American meatloaf did it come from America I'm not really sure on the history of meatloaf. I know it is one of Americas great comfort food it's probably been around for as long as the depression that I know of cause of aunts telling me so. It was an inexpensive way to spice up or to jazz up you know chop meat which is very cheap even by todays standards its the cheapest of the meats. I guess people got tired of eating hamburgers and a way to constipated would be to just to spice it up a little bit. So today I'm going to show you my mother and my aunts recipe for good old fashion meatloaf."