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Originally Posted by TheMentat

I'm tempted to try a goose this year... anybody tried it?

That kalua bird looks amazing!

In the past few years, we have had duck and goose twice. Duck was good, but the goose was much better. It's kind of a pain, but good, and you get a ton of rendered fat to use in everything throughout the year.

You boil some water, then submerge the goose for a minute or two. Of course, we don't have a pot big enough for a whole goose, so you get some really good gloves, and hold half of the goose in the boiling water, then flip the goose around and hold the other half. You do that a couple of days before you cook the bird, then you let the bird sit and dry out in your refrigerator for a day or two. Then you need a roaster with a V-rack to hold the goose up out of the drippings because there are an enormous amount of drippings (which is good).

The meat is really good and not dry. It's also very expensive. I think our last goose was $107, and was smaller than your average turkey.