Duck breast with plum and tamarind sauce ... PSWoo two-zone cook

Stormbringer

I cooked some duck breast with the plum and tamarind sauce in the kitchen at the weekend. I then remembered watching @tjv in a YouTube clip about two zone cooking with the PSWoo and thought I'd give this a try. Turned out very well indeed. The sauce recipe and two approaches are in the blog post linked below:

https://www.thecooksdigest.co.uk/2018/09/28/duck-breast-with-plum-and-tamarind-sauce/

Cooking in the Large ... sear first ...



... and then roast second:


Plated shot ... this was when I cooked it in the kitchen, it was too dark to get a decent shot after cooking on the Egg:


I also used some of @Nature Boy DP Peking rub with the noodles, combined with toasted sesame seed oil ... really good:


Thanks for looking!

Sea2Ski

That looks fantastic!  And as usual, great pictures. 
Honestly, was there much of a difference between the two cooking methods (egg vs kitchen?)

SmokeyPitt

Amazing as usual, mate.

Dyal_SC

Duck yeah!  That looks awesome. 

caliking

Very very nice! The sauce sounds wonderful. 

pgprescott

@Stormbringer is making it rain up in here! Boom!

Stormbringer

Thanks folks. I was tinkering with the new camera, happy with the results so far.

@Sea2Ski there was a definite difference ... the Egg method was more fun and led to less congestion in the kitchen area ... but I guess you're talking about the outcome . It was slightly better cooking in the Egg for two reasons.

The first was accidental. The Egg is at a very slight incline which means that when the fat rendered out, it went to one end of the pan. So rather than cooking in rendered fat, as happened on the hob, the fat was completely drained from the skin, resulting in a crisper skin. I could of course do this in the kitchen by angling the pan as the fat renders out.

In addition, or perhaps because of the above, the meat had slightly better texture when cooked in the Egg. Granted, this could be a difference between the ducks, although the kitchen and Egg variants did come from the same packet.

Having said this, I was looking for a difference. If I hadn't have been would I have noticed one? Probably not. But it was more fun cooking with the Egg.

DoubleEgger

Great cook. Stellar.