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I suspect the phrases "We ate them before I remembered to take a photo" and "So, yeah, I mangled it" are more linked in this explanation. This meal does sound delicious. Always a fan of the duck menu options at Chinese restaurants though given Chinese cuisines spans a huge range you are sure to find something in duck to like. Are the images at the top of your blog posts from a specific AI app or are they grabbed from public available stock images?

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I just fed the blog copy to the robot and said give me an image.

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Doesn't have to be Chinese. There are whole regions of France where essentially the whole menu involves duck (around Toulouse, for example). Duck also goes extremely well with mushroom risotto.

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mmmmmm duck/mushroom risotto

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My brother worked for a fast food chicken shoppe chain for a long time, and my key learning from that part of his career is to invest in some poultry shears to avoid mangling your bird. These bad boys will enable you to snip through wing and leg joints like a pro, which then leaves the torso free for slicing. One year he borrowed some shears from the store he was managing in order to carve up the Christmas turkey and he's been on poultry carving duty ever since (the family invested in our own set of poultry shears immediately after that first Christmas).

https://www.kitchenwarehouse.com.au/product/wusthof-poultry-shears-silver

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I have a pair of those, but I'm afraid that I hardly ever use them. I mostly use the sharp-knife-to-the-joint method. Only occasionally results in personal injury. The shears mostly get used when breaking up raw birds or rabbits for casseroles. Sometimes even then the cleaver is deployed in preference: more dangerous.

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We had the advantage of my brother having been trained in their use professionally as it were, and then he trained my parents (this being so very long ago I was not old enough to take part in the carving of the roast).

I fear your anecdote only strengthens the business case for the shears over other methods 🤣

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Holy jeebus. That's on the Xmas wishlist now

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By the look of it if you want to feed more than a couple of people you need to move up the avian hierarchy, to turkeys, geese and swans and the like.

Please report back with tasting notes on each, JB.

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sounds like working up ultimately to a Turducken.

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"Ate before remembered to take photo" is a very common kamado problem. Happens to me all the time...

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We had roast duck as part of Christmas dinner for a few years. They are so awful to carve, and, as you say, so little meat. Two ducks don't go far when there's 20+ peeps. We gave up.

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Jeebus. No. Two ducks would barely feed four peeps.

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"part of Christmas dinner", and falling in to the same category as lamb, to satisfy the wankers. The mainstays were, and are, turkey, ham, pork and prawns.

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