Grilled Meat Loaf at 10:00 AM

As impossible as this sounds (grilled meat loaf) we unknowingly attempted to cook this dish. It started out with the ladies (I won't mention Karen and Lauren's names) having the job of pattying some burgers and me and Matt grilling them.

Moving on...

Matt and I are out there on the deck, grill fired up, ready to go. The ladies bring out the burgers to us and we throw them on. All is fine and going smoothly... until.... we try flipping the burgers.

We flipped (or I should say "attempted to flip") a burger. It falls apart like a dirt clog. All down between the grill grates and underneath. Flames begin flaring ridiculously (capturing the attention of the ladies inside as they rush out with high shrill laughs).

Turns out, they didn't actually press the ground beef. They simply took some out in their hands, made it appear to be pattied as they shaped it nicely, but never actually pressed and meshed the meat together before pattying them. Therefore the meat was still "ground meat" textured on the inside instead of all meshed together to hold it's shape.

So, burger after burger we attempted to save them but they all continuously fell apart, down through the grill grates, flames going crazy, smoke everywhere, the ladies laughing in our ears (taking pictures...) as us guys (like a rescue team) hastily attempted to revive and save as much as we can of this meat. But it was too late. Over half of the meat is sitting in the bottom of the grill... burnt black, smoking away. It looked like we had chopped up meat loaf spread out all over the grill (and in the grill).

In the end...

We ate barbeque from Parker's.

Next time the guys will handle the burgers from square one and the ladies handle the sides.

(just giving you a hard time ladies... it was fun and it gave us a story to tell)