re: Cleaning Ducks

Gorilla

Smoked merganzer is pretty good. Marinate then smoke.

I'm surprised at the lean toward breasting here.

If the number you kill is "too many" to fully utilize, then you killed too many.

If I kill a duck, I'm getting all the meat, rendering the fat, and using bones for stock.

If that means I only get 5 from my group, then that's fine.

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I'm surprised at the lean toward breasting here. If the number you kill is "too many" to fully utilize, then you killed too many.

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When I'm the only one cleaning ducks in our group, I'm gonna breast some, especially small ducks. Otherwise, I don't know if they'd get utilized at all. I wish I knew someone around here that'd pluck'em for me. There's more meat outside of the breast on a big duck than people realize, not to mention the livers and hearts. On a whole duck, you can use the breast however you like and keep the rest for soups, gumbos, duck etouffee, duck and dumplings, duck and dressing etc. We have gotten more people in our camp eating duck. Many have only had it one or two ways. It's a excellent and unique flavor that can be used in a variety of ways. No matter how many we kill, we're generally out of duck by March or April because my girls crave it. Have to keep some put back for the wife's birthday because duck and dumplings is her yearly birthday meal request. Grilled backstrap for our anniversary, duck and dumplings for her birthday. Christmas is a wild game feast of whatever we come up with....and a fried turkey.

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Yeah, I like them but the family doesn't eat them unless they are stuffed with japs and wrapped in bacon so I breast my birds. My grandfather made me pluck every bird. Matter of fact I got a yeti full of ringnecks to breastf tomorrow.