Lynne's burger-obsessed friend Les Meltzer has waxed on forever about his pinnacle burger experience from years ago in Minot, North Dakota. There, a certain bar would practically burn their burgers on the grill to get them extra crusty and brown, then drop them into a vat of simmering BBQ sauce to finish.
This meat loaf started life as a meatball recipe in the Times.
I love these things, caught in the interspecies synapse between hamburgers and meat loaf.