Advertising campaign for Ducks

[ultasol]

I have heard similar comments. Mostly, these are duck and geese hunters or those who have only had wild duck/goose. The problem with this is a) no attention to gender and the effect of hormones on meat tenderness/quality 2) goose/duck may be older therefore tougher 3) no knowing quality of feed- many ducks where I live will hang out frequently on MAJOR mass production cattle feedlots in the muck and mire 3) no control over processing (bleedout, time of gutting, etc) and many of these people don't age their meat.

I made a goose for Thanksgiving that was served to 6 adults and two children- everyone LOVED it. 5 of the adults and both children had never had goose before, and one of the children keeps asking me when I'm going to bring him another "field chicken" (goose) to eat.


Our recipe was simple. We dry aged the meat three days, then cooked the goose with slits cut in skin through which we pushed garlic cloves. We made a gravy with some drippings, some fat was reserved for roasting potatos, and some was used to bake some cinnamon apples.

Mmmmm. Delicious.

 

[GraceAK]

How does one dry age a duck? That recipe sounds really good :O
I would like to eat duck, but I rarely do... I would eat it on a boat, I would eat it with plum sauce

 

[ultasol]

I ahven't dry aged a duck, but for my goose I placed it in a roaster pan in the fridge, and drained the fluid daily. At first it was breast up, last day was breast down. Skin looks ugly, but meat was good. It probably didn't need to be dry aged, but I was worried about the meat being 'gamey' to those used to grocery store poultry, and this goose was pasture raised from 2 weeks on.

 

[todd walker]

As a hunter I would say the #1 reason most people do not like duck is they over cook it,not like over cooking most birds that just get dry they will taste like liver,and liver is a hard sell.
After picking and cleaning I peel it(de-bone) my mom will come over and it is the only way she will eat duck.Also duck is best cooked on hi-heat 500 or higher for a short time.
And I also raise ducks and they do not taste as good as a wild duck,and I put a deer feeder in my pen to give them some corn a couple of times a day and that has really helped with the flavor.
As far as marketing the meat i'd look into a resturant,most times giving away things people will say they like it but really never buy it,hard to change people's minds.
I'd try selling eggs first then the meat.
And I sell my ducks for the dog training market,and never have enough birds.
good luck