On Barefoot Contessa, Garten walks through the recipe and shapes the mixture not in a loaf pan but on a sheet pan. It might sound counterintuitive at first — after all, it is called a meatloaf — but ...

Baking a meatloaf on a sheet pan results in a more freeform shape and allows for fat to drip off of the meat, resulting in a crisper texture all around. Do you need to flip the meatloaf when ...