#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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#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...]

[apocalypticist]

I had six dead geese after my attempt to complete the quest.

[ Yep... those poor birds got murderized by Ryo and Akechi. ]

[theshowsover]

Accidental? Or just a loss of control?

[apocalypticist]

The quest didn't say anything about having to catch them alive.

[ So wanton goose murder happened. ]

[theshowsover]

I guess the quests aren't always literal...