#EA0000: A Request

[theshowsover]

Does anyone know how to clean and prep a goose for cooking?

[Help.

(Also potential skill teach if you want?)]

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#900014

[doublecrowss]

[ Color! ]

You're cooking a goose? As in, like the ones found in the woods?

[theshowsover]

A girl asked me to.

[So he's just gonna do it.

Yep.]

[doublecrowss]

[ Ah. Of course. ]

I see. And you have to kill it yourself?

[theshowsover]

She didn't do it for me.

[totheno1]

I assume it's probably similar to a pheasant or a hen. All I can remember from asking out of curiosity to the chefs is that the bird must be boiled briefly to remove feathers more easily.

That's all I can offer to you.

[Because after finding that out, kid Nanjo decided not to ask such questions anymore.]

[theshowsover]

Boil it first. Got it.

[That's actually useful information!]

#DC666E

[apocalypticist]

[ Color! ]

- Clean the goose outdoors; it's a messy activity and you will have feathers everywhere.
- #4FB6C3 already mentioned this, but boiling the goose makes it easier to remove the feathers. One minute in boiling water is enough.
- Pull the feathers away from the skin in the direction of natural growth. Pulling against their natural growth pattern damages the skin.
- Place the goose on a flat surface with its breast up. This will make it easier to control the incisions when you gut the goose.
- Take care not to puncture the stomach and intestines. Fecal matter and undigested food can contaminate the meat.

[theshowsover]

[Wow that's... actually really thorough and helpful!]

Thanks.

Guess I've got a lot of feathers I'll have to pluck.

[apocalypticist]

Don't mention it. I've done this six times so I thought I'd pass on what I learned.

Plucking feathers is easy, but time-consuming.

[theshowsover]

Six times? You must be eating a lot of goose.

[He's also guessing you spectacularly failed that goose-catching quest...]

#E14F4F

[oathkeeper]

you got an actual goose?! how? where?

[theshowsover]

It's one of the mutant geese from the woods. A girl gave it to me.

[oathkeeper]

wow that's pretty cool. are you sure its edible if its mutant?

[theshowsover]

Guess we'll find out. At least it has color.

[buncho]

youre actually doing it!!!!
ive got one thats slightly on fire too if thatd make it easier for you

[theshowsover]

Only slightly?

[buncho]

it caught on fire and then dave magicked it away and we havent taken it out yet to see if its more on fire than it was last time

[theshowsover]

That's kind of weird.
But I guess it will do.

[girod]

I actually do, if no one's stepped forward.

[theshowsover]

Someone gave me step by step instructions.

I didn't know we had so many goose preppers here though.

[girod]

I'm glad someone was able to help.

It's not terribly uncommon information, I suppose. Anyone who knows much about cooking usually knows some about it.

[theshowsover]

The guy who taught me how to cook didn't usually have whole geese to prepare. [Or... goose at all.]

#1A2367

[nascere]

i think ignis knows how to do that

[theshowsover]

Are you volunteering him?

[nascere]

yep :)
lemme see if he's free