How to Cook Wild Duck with Hank Shaw S3.E11

If you don't like wild duck, it could be because you've never had it cooked the right way. Hank Shaw, a James Beard award-winning food blogger and cookbook author, walks us through the perfect way to cook a skin-on wild duck breast.

[@dakotatallent9934]

Thanks from Texas ......my folks live in Grapevine Ar. Been hunting Ar all my life.

[@shelly5596]

I own Hanks Book Hunt Gather Cook. I'm in sink with finding wild edibles. I'm a Norther Californian transplanted Washingtonian. I grew up in beautiful and abundant Lake Almanor Ca. I currently live off grid in beautiful and abundant Eastern Wa. I love finding wild edilbles, medicinal plants and mushrooms in our environment.

[@tabiushinkle5779]

How's the hunting where your at? I'm in northern California and looking to move states and go off grid as I already live off mostly wild game except for the occasional pizza from town..lol

[@whiteyfisk9769]

​@@tabiushinkle5779dont you dare leave your containment zone. You made your hellhole, stay there

[@tabiushinkle5779]

I didn't make this mess why should I have to live in someone else's filth?

[@whiteyfisk9769]

@@tabiushinkle5779 you allowed it. And those same attitudes will allow it in the places you flee to, as history has proven over and over and over again with Colorado, Austin Texas, Washington, Oregon, now Montana and Idaho are going to crap...all because of people like you and every single one of them ive confronted say the exact same thing you said.

[@oussamasaidani]

You are amazing guys....

[@Gus_1991]

Awesome video. Trying this tonight!

[@HirschJaeger23]

I love Hank Shaw!

[@omsingh3926]

Looks wonderful thanks

[@alexperry7787]

More Hank please!!

[@tylerlangford7040]

Great advice!

[@FG-qh7qx]

I have to cook our ducks fully, my kids and I won't eat them medium rear. I guess grew to the stronger tast.

[@evanhb49]

does it still taste like pure liver after cooking like this?

[@adamjones8218]

No it will not. It will be closer to Prime Rib or a good steak. Overcook to well done and it will get livery - also the type of duck will determine any "gameyness" . I made this mistake early in duck hunting and just toughed out eating it, until I spoke with people who knew how to cook it properly. Puddle ducks or dabbling ducks (Think Mallard, Teal, Widgeon etc) . are the best eating due to their diet. Diving ducks will taste a bit more fishy due to their diet and require more effort in preparation or use in something like gumbo or sausage to eliminate the fishyness.

[@bobcostas1331]

@@adamjones8218 same thing. The white fat = grain fed. Same thing like pigs. Yellow fat = fish and bugs. If you cook with skin on and there is yellow fat it will take fishy. 100% of the time. Fail proof. If your nervous about it, go skjnless and do red duck curry over rice (in his cook book). It’s so goddam good I can’t event begin

[@jackoff8919]

That’s called you cooked it wrong! Duck au poive is my favorite meal and I would rather have a properly cooked puddle duck breast over steak.

[@evanhb49]

@@jackoff8919 i smoked my first wood ducks this year, stuffed them with apple onion and orange slices and slapped some marinade on top of them. i regret not cooking them that way from the start man they was good

[@MsDynnez]

I’m always scared to eat wild duck medium rare? Does anyone know if it’s safe to eat duck medium rare?