Roasted goose with roasted potatoes
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How to Roast a Goose: Temperatures for A Christmas Classic

A roast goose for Christmas is about as nostalgic as it gets. Even if you never had goose as a child, you’d probably agree that there’s something homey, comforting, familiar about the idea. No, goose is not exceedingly popular in the States, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. With proper temperature tools and…

Platter of roast duck and vegetables
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Holiday Roast Duck: Thermal Tricks for a Better Bird

There’s nothing quite so classically ‘winter’ as a roast duck or roast goose. Whether it’s for a holiday dinner or for a cozy Sunday at home, the deep flavor and luxurious, almost beefy texture of a duck hit the spot in these cold, dark months. Plus, duck and goose both boast copious amounts of warm-flavored…

How to make a turducken
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Turducken: A Thermal Nightmare Done Right

Have you heard of the turducken? The turkey-stuffed-with-duck-stuffed-with-chicken? This chimera of meat waded out of the Louisiana bayous sometime in the 1980’s and has been seen terrorizing thanksgiving tables ever since. Why do I say terrorizing? Because the turducken is a thermo-logistical nightmare. Think about it. You create a giant sphere of meat that must…

Smoked Christmas Goose
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Smoked Christmas Goose

Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession. Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course—and in truth it was something…