How To Make BBQ Meat Loaf

When it comes to BBQ meat loaf, this is way different from what your mom made! Our BBQ meatloaf recipe will wow your family! It might make your wife a little perturbed by the family’s response! Let’s chat about it!

The first time I made BBQ meat loaf for my family, my wife was not too happy. The kids said, “This is the best meat loaf we have ever had!”

I don’t want to pat myself on the back, but my kids were right, it was the best meat loaf I have ever had! I put a lot of love and time into it. It was smoked with hickory for about 4 hours. The smoke ring was on point, the BBQ rub complimented the smoke well, and the BBQ sauce was icing on the cake!

The BBQ Meatloaf Recipe

Making a BBQ meat loaf is real easy to do. This recipe will make two loafs, so you can freeze one for later. Ok, ok, here are the list of ingredients:

• 3 lbs ground chuck (80/20 ground beef works best)
• 1 lb tube of breakfast sausage
• 2 tbsp Butcher BBQ Steak and Brisket Rub
• 1 cup breadcrumbs or 4 slices white bread cubed
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/4 cup Butcher BBQ Sweet BBQ Sauce
• 2 eggs

Let’s get to Mixing

1. Start off by adding the milk to your breadcrumbs or cubed bread. This will allow for the bread to get good and soft.
2. While the milk and bread are soaking, add the ground chuck and sausage in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly two meats with your hands.
3. The best way to mix the ingredients is for the ground chuck and breakfast sausage to be cold.
4. Whip your two eggs in a separate bowl.
5. Now add all your wet ingredients to the ground beef and sausage and mix thoroughly with your hands.
6. Add the Butcher BBQ Steak and Brisket Rub and mix it in as well.

Let’s Make the BBQ Meat Loaf

1. Use plastic wrap to line two bread loaf pans. It usually takes two pieces of plastic wrap to cover the pan: one piece long ways and the other the opposite way.
2. Grab your bowl of mixed BBQ meat loaf ingredients and divide it roughly in half, placing each half into a bread pan. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
3. Once added to the bread pans, use the plastic wrap to cover the meat loafs and place them in the freezer for 3-4 hours. This will help the meat loaf keep its shape while cooking.

Fire up the Smoker

We are going to smoke this BBQ meat loaf at 250 degrees using hickory chunks.

After 4 hours in the freezer, remove the meatloaf from the freezer and remove the plastic wrap. Dust it with some more Butcher BBQ Steak and Brisket Rub, and put that beautiful meatloaf on the smoker.

It will take 3-4 hours for your barbecue meat loaf to reach an internal temp of 165 degrees. You will want to use a temperature probe and start checking the internal temp at the 2 hour mark.

Add Some BBQ Sauce and Let It Tack Up

When your BBQ meat loaf hits an internal temp of 160-163, glaze it with some BBQ sauce. That Butcher BBQ Sweet BBQ Sauce is the icing on this BBQ cake! After glazing, let it finish cooking until 165 degrees and then let it rest.

Tent some aluminum foil over the BBQ meat loaf and let it rest for about 30 minutes.

In Conclusion

So there you have it, a simple and easy to make BBQ meatloaf recipe. This could be the best ever meatloaf with BBQ sauce your family may ever eat!

Now slice that beautiful meatloaf and let us know in the comment section below how your cook turned out!