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free photo uploadPlucked, split, and grilled on high heat. Served with adult beverage of your choice. Yeah, that looks good ! šš¼ I didnāt know you could cook. š¬š¦«
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I have been hunting ducks (mallards, pintail, and teal) and greater Canada geese here in the corn fields. They are all good eating. My favorite ways to cook them are gumbo and blackened mallard breast, rare. I only roast the teal.
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Our favorite for years was diced duck gravy poured over biscuits.
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Whatās the story on eating duck medium rare, to rare ?
Everything I read on the internet, including members posts here, all say medium rare to rare is the proper way to cook and enjoy duck.
Canāt it make you sick, like eating chicken thatās not thoroughly cooked ?
As I mentioned before...Over cooking duck, like we use to do, always produced the same dry, liver taste. Yuck !
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I love duck hunting and eating but I hate plucking. It was a great day when my kids got old enough to argue over who āgetsā to pluck the ducks. My favorite ways to eat them or either duck gumbo or a pot pie why pluck just peel them it's a hell of a lot neater and easier.
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Whatās the story on eating duck medium rare, to rare ?
Everything I read on the internet, including members posts here, all say medium rare to rare is the proper way to cook and enjoy duck.
Canāt it make you sick, like eating chicken thatās not thoroughly cooked ?
As I mentioned before...Over cooking duck, like we use to do, always produced the same dry, liver taste. Yuck !
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Past medium rare, waterfowl gets chewy and liver-tasting. If cooking on high heat, I wouldn't go past 135 deg or so. If cooking in gumbo, stews, etc, you can cook low and slow until it falls apart. Then the above doesn't apply.
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I love duck hunting and eating but I hate plucking. It was a great day when my kids got old enough to argue over who āgetsā to pluck the ducks. My favorite ways to eat them or either duck gumbo or a pot pie why pluck just peel them it's a hell of a lot neater and easier. Duck fat and crispy skin is worth plucking
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I love duck hunting and eating but I hate plucking. It was a great day when my kids got old enough to argue over who āgetsā to pluck the ducks. My favorite ways to eat them or either duck gumbo or a pot pie why pluck just peel them it's a hell of a lot neater and easier. Duck fat and crispy skin is worth plucking no thanks
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Whatās the story on eating duck medium rare, to rare ?
Everything I read on the internet, including members posts here, all say medium rare to rare is the proper way to cook and enjoy duck.
Canāt it make you sick, like eating chicken thatās not thoroughly cooked ?
As I mentioned before...Over cooking duck, like we use to do, always produced the same dry, liver taste. Yuck !
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Past medium rare, waterfowl gets chewy and liver-tasting. If cooking on high heat, I wouldn't go past 135 deg or so. If cooking in gumbo, stews, etc, you can cook low and slow until it falls apart. Then the above doesn't apply. TR, Thanks ! I just included the 135* degree internal cooking temp in the cookbook. š¦«
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free photo uploadPlucked, split, and grilled on high heat. Served with adult beverage of your choice. Yeah, that looks good ! šš¼ I didnāt know you could cook. š¬š¦« I canāt. Grill only! Splitting them allows them to cook faster, and leaving the skin on keeps them from drying too much.
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free photo uploadPlucked, split, and grilled on high heat. Served with adult beverage of your choice. Yeah, that looks good ! šš¼ I didnāt know you could cook. š¬š¦« I canāt. Grill only! Splitting them allows them to cook faster, and leaving the skin on keeps them from drying too much. This thread alone should get members into the fields and marshes to hunt ducks that havenāt before. š¦«
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Breast the ducks, soak overnight in a 50-50 orange juice, apple juice mixture. Remove pat the breasts dry. Fire up the bbq, season with onion, garlic salt and pepper to taste. Place the breasts on an alder wood cooking plank. Bbq until breasts reach 140 degrees! Remove from the bbq, drop breasts in the garbage and eat the plank! The only way to eat duck! I quit hunting them in the early 70's, because I see no reason to kill a bunch of inedible ducks! Beaver duck and goose hunting is very good in my area. If you come this way, let me know. A few friends live to hunt birds. And would show you some good places to shoot donald!
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Breast the ducks, soak overnight in a 50-50 orange juice, apple juice mixture. Remove pat the breasts dry. Fire up the bbq, season with onion, garlic salt and pepper to taste. Place the breasts on an alder wood cooking plank. Bbq until breasts reach 140 degrees! Remove from the bbq, drop breasts in the garbage and eat the plank! The only way to eat duck! I quit hunting them in the early 70's, because I see no reason to kill a bunch of inedible ducks! Beaver duck and goose hunting is very good in my area. If you come this way, let me know. A few friends live to hunt birds. And would show you some good places to shoot donald! Might take you up on that...Cut some extra planks. LOL š¦«
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The way ducks and geese taste is all depends on what they are eating. I have eaten plenty of both and on rare occasion gotten a really bad one. That being said most if properly cared for after killing them are very good eating. To each there own.
Hell I have met guys who donāt like venison, elk, antelope, etc.
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The way ducks and geese taste is all depends on what they are eating. I have eaten plenty of both and on rare occasion gotten a really bad one. That being said most if properly cared for after killing them are very good eating. To each there own.
Hell I have met guys who donāt like venison, elk, antelope, etc. Look, I applaud everyone who gives up duck hunting. Just doesn't seem to be the case everytime I go to the boat ramp. More and more people.
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I love Ducks. Geese not so much. Snows are bad. Specks are not even good. Mallards Woodies and Teal are fine eating. I have one pack of Mallard breasts left in the freezer. They will be gone in the.next week or two. Marinated in allegro spicy wrapped in bacon and cooked on charcoal with hickory smoke Med. Rare
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I took the breast off a mallard yesterday, split each side in half to butterfly it and put some olive oil and sprinkled it with some https://www.tonychachere.com/product/original-creole-seasoning/ and cooked it on a 500 degree grill for 1 1/2 minutes each side, sliced and served it with a dipping sauce of sour cream, mild horseradish and salt/pepper. The leftovers got used for pizza topping.
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Pugs that sounds really good. Going to try that.
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Ever eat a western wa briar eating buck? I didnāt think so, in my opinion they are far and away the rankest gamiest deer there is hands down. 100% right I killed 1/2 a dozen blacktails on Whidbey Island and they were among the very best deer I've ever eaten. I love ducks too but no so much to ever go shoot and eat a sea duck again!
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