Canada Goose....eatable or not

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I recently had a conversation with an avid bird hunter who said he and his friends never shoot Canada geese as their meat is 'undesirable".

He was putting this forward as a known fact. I realized that I have never had Canada goose meat, but have always assumed that they are desirable game. I would appreciate your thoughts
 
The avid bird hunter you speak of is a goof. Of COURSE they're 'eatable'. Why do you think people shoot them? ;)

Personally, I'm not a big goose fan - we normally smoke the breasts. It can be greasy if you don't prepare it well.

Just a tip from my younger days - trying to make Hamburger Helper into Goose/Duck Helper is a BAAAAD idea.
 
Don't agree at all.

The person that told you that bit of info is out to lunch most likely eating canada goose . They are great eating goose breast on thr bbq is deadly.
Or in the oven roasted the a turkey just down over cook.
Ask him to see inside his deep freeze my guess is he has a few inside it.
 
Are all of you guys serious ... all geese ... Canada's, snow and those brown ones with orange feet are GREAT to eat. You can BBQ them, boil them(soup mix), bake'em in the oven ... spring time when they come up north they're nice and fat from being grain feed(eating in farmers fields) ... fall time when they go back south they taste like blackberrie's ... for real! :D

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I'm not a big fan as I find them dry tasting no matter how I cook them. A buddy gave me a great way to use em years ago though. You mince em and add 1/3 minced pork and spice and make goose sausage. The fat in the pork really juiceys em um something good!:)
MMMmmmm Time to go look what I got in the deep freeze...
 
I recently had a conversation with an avid bird hunter who said he and his friends never shoot Canada geese as their meat is 'undesirable".
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I guess he's not that "avid" then.

Goose are good.

And the pepperettes are amazing!!
 
i have never heard an "avid" bird hunter say that goose arent good eating. heck last season alone i got 5 of my non hunting buddies to try some and they all loved it.

whenever i hear someone say the wild game they have tried was dry or tasted bad i know right away that the meat wasnt handled or cooked properly. the only exception i have encountered so far is some wood ducks are just nasty while the one beside it will taste great:confused:

the best way i have found to eat goose is to take a breast and cut it almost in half making a pocket. stuff this with a mix of bread chunks, dried apricots, apples, onion and seasoning that has been moistened with white wine. vegetarians are the only ones who wouldnt like goose done that way :D
 
Bring a half a gallon of water almost to a boil.
Add a half a cup of salt and a half a cup of sugar and 4 tbsp of mustard powder and 1 tsp of cinnamon.
Add half a gallon of whole milk and let cool to room temp (or fridge temp).
When the liquid has cooled, drop your breasts in the water but make sure they're all completely covered.
Let this soak in the fridge for 8 hours (overnight works well)

Drain the liquid and rinse all the remaining liquid off the breasts if you're not going to cook them right away - otherwise they'll be salty.

Toss the breasts on the BBQ/Fire with red peppers and potatoes. Add a little spice if you like, but it won't need it :)

Don't overcook it. It should be medium cooked.

Delicious.
 
The meat is very gamey. Try making summer sausage out of it. That tastes great.

I have yet to find a good way to cook it. Maybe the bbq will work. Need to kill a few more this year as all of it is already in sausage.
 
I find goose meat stringy & tough as hell with a "flavor" reminicent of liver. And I'm talking Saskatchewan & northern Alberta grain fed geese. My wife's cousin brought out a cooler full of breasts from Sask a couple years ago and simmered them all day in a type of stew she concocts. It was the best goose I've ever had, albeit with that livery taste. I can see why people mix goose meat with other things and make pepperoni and smoked sausage to kill that taste. Even roast goose is generally served with something to disguise the "flavor". Edible? Yes. Favored? Not if you have something else to eat.
 
You might find who says yes no is also related to where they live and where the bird came from
for example
if they live any where there could be Geese that don't fly south in the winter

Some birds eat a lot of stuff that the fly south birds don't eat and if some one cooked one of these birds you would stay away from them too

Just like rat and rabbit one you would eat the other you would notR:d:
 
I take the tenderloins with me when we go have tailgate fires on the weekend. My missus cooks them on a stick like a hot dog and loves it! :D
Your 'avid' friend needs to spend a little more time in the kitchen.
 
They're plenty fine to eat.

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with a "flavor" reminicent of liver..
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i shot a canvasback last fall, and thought the same thing, was my first time eating wild duck. i cut the breast into to strips, floured and pan fried. might have cooked it wrong, but it was melt in your mouth tender and i thought delicous. if you want to talk about inedible lets talk about the brace of coots i mistook for buffleheads, that was like eating rubber dipped in a rotten meat slurry.
 
Goose jerky is great. Me and the kids don't let it sit around long. Also the wife does some, sliced thin, pan fried in a peppercorn gravy that's real good.

Never really could make a duck taste good though, even the jerky was crap. Marinated and smoked along side goose you could pick the duck jerky out.

Ducks are off limits now.:puke:
 
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