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Most any hardwood will suffice for smoking and the wood of fruit trees are sometimes preferred for the additional flavors they can impart into the meat. Fire up your smoker to temperatures of 300 to 325 degrees F 149 to 163 degrees C adding wood chunks or chips.
Begin this recipe by lighting your smoker for indirect grilling and soaking your wood chips in water.
What wood to smoke duck. Perfectly smoked duck meat is tender incredibly juicy and packs serious flavor. Learn how to smoke duck with applewood charcoal using this How-To-Guide. Wood is another choice you will need to make.
I am a big fan of fruit or nut woods like apple pecan or walnut. Oak is OK mesquite too weird. How you place your duck in the smoker doesnt really matter.
Ive stood them on end like a beer can chicken with a glass jar jammed up its butt and it worked well. But Ive also just set the duck down on the rack breast side up and it went fine too. Most any hardwood will suffice for smoking and the wood of fruit trees are sometimes preferred for the additional flavors they can impart into the meat.
Ive used hickory to smoke hams for 20 years but others like apple pear mesquite pecan and others will also work well and give you a different taste. With pecan the actual wood works better than shells if you can get it but they have a. How to Smoke a Duck.
After you have brined your duck in preparation for smoking youll want to create a simple glaze of orange juice and maple syrup and set it aside for use while the duck is smoking. Next simply follow these steps to get your duck smoked to juicy perfection. Preheat your smoker to 275 degrees F.
For this duck recipe I recommend using maple wood but alder. 1 bag of charcoal. 1 bottle of lighter fluid or a charcoal chimney starter.
1 or 2 bags of wood chips of your choice apple wood is recommended Smoked Duck Recipe Directions. Begin this recipe by lighting your smoker for indirect grilling and soaking your wood chips in water. Smoking woods can either be mild like fruit woods or very strong like mesquite.
The mild woods can add a subtle flavor to your meat while the strong woods act like chili peppers adding the right amount of spiciness to your food. A general rule of thumb is that milder hardwoods such as maple alder and fruit and nut type woods are better for smoking lighter meats such as poultry and. Add the tyme sprigs and any garlic cloves that may have escaped their duck to the orange juice and brancy mixture.
Oak is the quintessential go-to for smoking meat. It is a great place to start if you are a newbie to smoking. It will lend a medium to a strong flavor.
Overall smoking time tends to be about eight hours depending on your temps. I want the bacon on the outside of the duck done but not burned. Because of the bones in the goose thigh meat it actually takes a bit longer to smoke.
Once I removed the duck from the smoker the goose thighs were left in the smoker for another hour and a half. Total smoke time for the goose was about nine and a half to ten hours. Again total time will depend on your smoker.
For the smokey flavor Im adding some cherry wood from SA BBQ Woods. Have the BBQ sitting at a temp of 320f or 160. Place the duck opposite the charcoal.
Move the duck across the pan if you can to keep it away from to much direct heat. Traditional smoking temperatures are quite low200-275F 93-135C. But duck needs a higher temperature to render the fat well.
A cooking temperature of 300-325F 149C-163C is recommended. Duck has the same minimum doneness temperature as other poultry165F 74C. Tracking the ducks temperature during the cook and.
Fire up your smoker to temperatures of 300 to 325 degrees F 149 to 163 degrees C adding wood chunks or chips. A favorite wood type to use is cherry wood for a divine fruity touch to the duck flavor. Produce a humid atmosphere by putting a water pan.
Mixture of beans black pinto roman etc Garlic Cloves Thyme Salt Duck or Goose Fat Sausages with Herbs Smoked Sausages Duck Confit. Regarded by most hunters as the most beautiful species of North American waterfowl wood duck males or drakes are colorful enough to be mistaken for some exotic jungle species. The places that wood ducks call home are equally pretty.
They prefer small heavily wooded bodies of water such as beaver ponds creeks marshes and small lakes. Wood ducks are one of North Americas great conservation stories.