Canada Geese- How to get that game taste out

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Every time I've tried them they taste like nasty liver

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Have you been cooking them all the way through? That's usually what causes a liver taste. I just grill them med rare.

I agree. Cook the breasts like steak.

Are you plucking and cooking them whole?

If so, I'd try browning the shite out of them then cooking them slow, breast down, covered in stock and wine in the oven.

Never even entertained the idea of eating fowl rare. I will have to give it a try this season.

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The Wonder bread removes the game taste.

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And the parking lot rocks!

Seriously though, where do you hunt? Like which part of the country? What is the main food source in the area. I always found that the geese where I hunt (around Thornwell) tended to taste a lot better while rice was still plentiful. Late in the season, when most of the rice was gone and they started eating the rye grass, the flavor would change. The Gueydan area always has more soybean fields and flavor of birds shot in that area sometimes was different also.

I agree with the overcooking. We usually breast them out & cut them in to smaller strips wrapped in bacon, and use a peppercorn marinade. If you wait for bacon to crisp up, usually the goose is overcooked.

I lay the bacon on a cuttin board, grab the end of the bacon and stretch it out by drawing the back side of a chefs knife across it until it almost prosciutto ham thin & wrap wither duck or goose. When the bacon is done, so is the bird. Makes the bacon go farther while acting like a temperature guage. My $0.02.

I do soak them in salted water for a day or two to draw out the blood.

Any thing worth eating shouldn't be this much trouble.

I agree, but usually I'm not the only I'm feeding it to. By doing it this way, if they don't like it they're not throwing a whole breast away.

Canada geese isnt good anyway.... but jerky. Makes the best jerky, better than deer

Never had Canada goose but for duck breasts clean them good, coat with olive oil cracked sea salt and black pepper and grill to at most medium rare or throw them in skillet
with some butter and flash sear it

Overcooking is the worst thing you can do to a duck or goose

Gumbo.