3 cooks - wings, duck, pizza

blind99 · November 2014

Friday night, some wings, and a delivery pizza. man i love wings! broke them down, then tossed with some homemade rub. direct raised 400. a few got charred. poor little guys didn't know what hit them. half sauced with SBR, half with carolina mustard BBQ.

Last night was duck. Wife was a little sad I didn't participate in the steak throwdown but my 4 year old thought a duck would be cool. I've never cooked one. I cut away the extra skin, and scored the skin, gave it a coat of kosher salt and roasted until IT 165. The fat under the skin by the thighs and legs rendered off, but not the fat under the breast skin. Served with a orange glaze, asparagus on the egg, and potatoes. The potatoes were boiled in salt water then roasted with butter, baby onions, garlic and herbs.

Cast iron pizza is for lunch today, pics to follow. thanks for looking

thetrim · November 2014

That looks great. Duck is fun to spatchcock next time if you want to give that a try

SGH · November 2014

Looks like a winner to me =D>

Little Steven · November 2014

Nice cooks! Duck works great on my invertabird method as well. Keeps the breast down around 140 when the legs are at 160.

blind99 · November 2014

@thetrim thanks -- when you spatchcock the duck do you go direct raised?

thanks @sgh and @little_steven! i just looked up invertabird, i'll have to give that a try, too!

pizza pic in a few.

blind99 · November 2014

Pan pizza was from the serious eats recipe. I forgot how good homemade dough tastes! my skillet is bigger than what they used in their recipe so I used all the dough instead of half. Could have used a little less dough, and a little more cheese, but overall the recipe was great. cooked indirect at 500 for 12 minutes. Half was ground beef, other half pepperoni (don't worry there's more than 6 on that half... more meat is hiding under the cheese!)

Ragtop99 · November 2014

I love a good duck, but have had mixed results. Yours looks excellent.

Gman2 · November 2014

Duck and pie looks great!! I love duck but haven't tried it on the egg yet! It's on the to do list!!

CaseIHman · November 2014

That all looks so good!

Dyal_SC · November 2014

Wow!! Everything looks horrible... Better give it to me. =P~

blind99 · November 2014

thanks @ragtop99 @gman2 @CaselHman I'm quite sure better ducks have been cooked, but it was good, and fun to cook. Not a lot of meat on one of those suckers! Pizza on the egg is definitely a favorite.

@Dyal_SC sorry to disappoint -- come by any time, i'll be happy to share!

Dobie · November 2014

Havent done a duck yet, what does the string accomplish?

theyolksonyou · November 2014

Looks good. Never had duck meat. :P

thetrim · November 2014

blind99 said:
@thetrim thanks -- when you spatchcock the duck do you go direct raised?
thanks @sgh and @little_steven! i just looked up invertabird, i'll have to give that a try, too!
pizza pic in a few.

I've done raised indirect with a pan of sliced potatoes. And onions under it.

blind99 · November 2014

Dobie said:
Havent done a duck yet, what does the string accomplish?

Not sure it does anything but I truss my turkeys so I thought Id do the same for the duck - kind of keeps it all together

Thanks @thetrim‌ I'll try that - I think a slower longer cook would be good for rendering out more skin fat. I'll try that next time.

3 cooks - wings, duck, pizza

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