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Ducks - pluck or skin?
12/29/03 11:43 AM
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What's your trick for cleaning up ducks? I have tried both, but prefer skin on for some recipes.
I have not figured out the trick to plucking yet... I can not seem to get all those feathers off, especially that short down stuff. I take hours to try and clean them nice, but still! If everyone cleaned like I do, the human race would have given up eating birds melliniums ago!
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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12/29/03 12:31 PM
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Robert, I've never tried it, but just heard that the best way is to melt parafin, apply it, let it harden, then peel it off. That's after you've plucked the big feathers of course. I never had any parafin on hand when I had a duck to pluck. 
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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12/29/03 03:57 PM
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Robert, You aren't going to let Bird talk you into a bikini wax job on a dead duck are you?
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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12/29/03 09:48 PM
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Ya know, Bird is a pretty straight shooter... He aint steered me wrong before How would I explain the waxing to the wife though 
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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12/30/03 07:50 AM
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Robert, Have you seen those little round pieces of textured "rubber" that have a few uses in the kitchen? I'm talking about the ones that you can use to grip a jar lid and such. They have real good traction. That, coupled with the knowledge that automatic chicken pluckers, used to anyway, have rotating rubber fingers, I'd try to drag/rub across the down with the high traction rubber thingy and see if it helps pull out the down.
Another consideration is that there is "grain", i.e. directionality to most feathers. You might need to discover what works best, stroking with, against, or across the "down's natural direction."
(I mean this seriously.)
If it works, it might be easier and simpler than waxing. Being frugal, I'd have to reheat the down laden wax and strain it for reuse, yet another labor step in the comparison of methods.
Pat
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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12/30/03 11:44 AM
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Perhaps placing a wet cloth on the duck and applying a hot iron will ease the plucking situation. After plucking singe the bird with a burning piece of cotton cloth that has been soaked in alchol. [ not the imbibing kind ]
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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12/30/03 04:49 PM
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In reply to:
Perhaps placing a wet cloth on the duck and applying a hot iron will ease the plucking situation.
Pressed Duck?
Gary
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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12/31/03 05:41 AM
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I can assure you the glass is not present and the smell will soon convey your last meal to the porcelain bowl.
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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01/04/04 11:12 AM
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Has any one ever used one of those rubber thumpers that sell in the Orvis catalog etc ? They look like a bench grinder motor with a wheel that is a bunch of rubber studs. I guess you beat the feathers off. Talk about beating a Dead Duck ! In most of the bird clubs here the pheasants are cleaned with the Parrafin method. Personally I just breast all of my birds. That way I never even have to gut the animal. Dave
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I haven't used a "rubber thumper" but your description sounds like a DIY version of a commercial plucker.
Pat
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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01/06/04 07:10 AM
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I have never used one but they look like they would work pretty good. I like to have the skin on especially on a whole bird. This would seem to save a LOT of work. I think they are around $175. Dave
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Looks like Cabela's can set you up cheap!
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/horizontal-item.jhtml?id=0006150220077a&navAction=jump&navCount=0&indexId=&podId=0006150&catalogCode=XD&parentId=&parentType=&rid=&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fcatalog%2Fitem-link.jhtml.1_A&_DAV=search&hasJS=true
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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01/06/04 06:55 PM
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That is a much smaller version of what I was talking about but the principal. The smaller ones might be a little tuff to use Vs the bench mounted ones. I think the Orvis one had vise or C clamp so you could latch it on a tail gate etc. I think I might look a little looney going after a Duck with the Drill plucker  My wife would get WAAAAAAAY to much mileage out of that one . Dave
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I have a 2hp motor from an old compresser mounted on the bench with polishing wheels on it. That would go right on there, with a garbage can beneath...
It would be interesting to hold the duck while manuevering the drill mounted setup
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Re: Ducks - pluck or skin?
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01/07/04 05:47 AM
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Yeah, I'm getting visions of Tim the Tool Man Taylor holding the duck by the neck and going after it with a drill as the bird spins round and round with feathers flying I guess it really means the person who came up with that idea hated to pluck ! Dave
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