Old fashioned oats vs Breadcrumbs

[roo_ster]

For use in meatloaf and similar dishes.

Just finished chowing down on some "kitchen sink" meatloaf, where i toss all sorts of stuff into the mix and measure by eyeball.  I happened to have no breadcrumbs on hand to de-slime the mix after adding egg as binder.  What to do?  Well i did have some quaker old fashioned oats, so ran with them and added them until the mix was unslimed.  I knew there was a whole lot more "dry" left in the of oats and wondered how the meatloaf would manage.

I was truly impressed by the way the of oats sucked up the fat and juice.  I usually use 80-20 chuck or 70-30 ground beef and end up with some grease around the margin and shrinkage.  Not this time.  Still some shrinkage but no excess grease. And the of oats were thoroughly cooked.  I could see them and extracted one.

Oh and the meatloaf was part of a byproduct of a big pot of split oea soup.  Figured if i was going to cut and brown onions, celery, and xarrots might as well get in with it and kill the remaining ingredients.  Both pea soup and meatloaf are winners.  Hard to screw them ip, though.

[RoadKingLarry]

Mom always made meatloaf with Quaker oats.
Mrs. Roadking insists on breadcrumbs.
This has caused much strife in our marriage.

[Regolith]

My mother always made them with Quaker oats, and it always turned out good, so that's the way I've always done it as well. It's about the only good reason I can think of to keep oats around...

Well, that and banana-oatmeal cookies.

[RoadKingLarry]

My mother always made them with Quaker oats, and it always turned out good, so that's the way I've always done it as well. It's about the only good reason I can think of to keep oats around...

Well, that and banana-oatmeal cookies.

That and oatmeal-raisin-choclate chip-black walnut cookies.

[Regolith]

That and oatmeal-raisin-choclate chip-black walnut cookies.

You sure that's not a trail mix recipe? 

[Perd Hapley]

Cornbread all over again.

[RoadKingLarry]

You sure that's not a trail mix recipe? 

Done right makes a damn good cookie.
 

[K Frame]

I've used oats in meatballs and meatloaf for years. I like the texture oats add.

[Hawkmoon]

My recipe for meatloaf calls for oats. I tried breadcrumbs once and didn't like the result at all.

[K Frame]

That and oatmeal-raisin-choclate chip-black walnut cookies.

I'm meh on the chocolate chips and extremely allergic to the black walnuts, so I'm fine with just oatmeal raisin.

[Fly320s]

Cornbread all over again.

I think you mean oatbread.

[charby]

Quaker Oats here, mostly because that is how my mom did it and Quaker Oats is/was an Iowa company. We also used the leanest meat we could get and used eggs as a binder.

[RoadKingLarry]

I'm meh on the chocolate chips and extremely allergic to the black walnuts, so I'm fine with just oatmeal raisin.

Sucks to be you. Black walnuts are awesome.

[Fly320s]

Sucks to be you. Black walnuts are awesome.

That's racist.

[Hawkmoon]

BWM

[makattak]

BWM

I still think that "Try our tapenade, Black Olives Matter!" is the most hilarious spoof yet.

[K Frame]

Sucks to be you. Black walnuts are awesome.

I fondly remember a time when I could eat walnuts. My Grandparents had black walnut trees and Grandma made some killer Christmas stuff with walnuts.

The *expletive deleted*it hit the fan the summer I was 11. I ate a piece of walnut candy and had a nasty allergic reaction.

A few years later I unknowingly got some walnuts in a cookie and almost died.

[mtnbkr]

A few years later I unknowingly got some walnuts in a cookie and almost died.

We keep trying. 

Chris

[K Frame]

We keep trying. 

Chris

Just shows what a continuing failure you are that you've not been able to succeed.

[Angel Eyes]

Just shows what a continuing failure you are that you've not been able to succeed.

. . . or he just wanted to make you suffer.

[Grebnaws]

My mother uses oats in her meatloaf, but she also makes terrible meat loaf. I'm sure oats aren't her problem. We make a standard crowd pleaser meatloaf at work using Italian breadcrumbs which pull double duty as filler and seasoning.

[lupinus]

Have used both, depends on my mood.

Know what else makes for a kick ass meat load? Stove top. Needs a little hydration first. I do that regardless, with either some water or milk depending, but with the stove top it's a must imo.

[BobR]

I have used minute rice mixed into meatloaf as an extender when I was feeding 2 teens. Now meatloaf is a rarity at my place and I don't make it, SWMBO will do it when we just can't think of anything else for dinner.


bob

[K Frame]

Know what else makes for a kick ass meat load? Stove top. Needs a little hydration first. I do that regardless, with either some water or milk depending, but with the stove top it's a must imo.

MUST TRY! That sounds like it would kick ass!

The whole box, or how do you proportion it?

[lupinus]

Not the whole box, use about like bread crumbs or to taste, keeping in mind that it's chunkier so is going to take up more Blume than bread crumbs


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