I hear a goose honking in the night
1I want to go outside and shoot it, but sadly I am in a suburban neighborhood and don't think the neighbors would be very happy. There will be no goose dinner.
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Typically the goose that you're going to get in the store is from a place in South Dakota called Schiltz Goose Farm. They pretty much dominate the goose market in the U.S. They actually have a pretty nice product.
The Schiltz goose is a proprietary breed. It's based off the Emden, which is the big, giant, white goose. But it has a couple of other breeds mixed in with it to basically just suit whatever environment the Schiltz farm has. It's a big goose. They're usually between 12 and 16 pounds, but you can get them a little lighter as well.
They are all grass-fed pretty much because geese have to be raised free range. If you confine them, they die. Geese, in general, have to be raised on grass because that's what they eat. No one has been able to figure out how to breed a goose that will eat chicken feed, for example. It wrecks them and then they just die. It's an interesting throwback to old, old-style agriculture. Geese also are relatively unique in that they pretty much only lay eggs for one period in a year, and that's the spring. So there's a seasonal crop of geese. They don't really start coming to market until late September -- they're ready right in time for the holidays. It's a natural seasonality that makes goose such a good holiday meal.
The first thing you need to know is the sweet spot of cooking a goose breast is somewhere around 135 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit internal temperature.
https://www.splendidtable.org/story/coo ... render-outIt's pink, yes -- medium-rare to medium. The sweet spot for the legs is somewhere around 175 to 180 degrees Fahrenheit, give or take, they're pretty forgiving. That's a huge spread in temperature. You can't really pull it off if you are stuck on a whole Norman Rockwell "I've got to carve the goose at the table" image. If you can get away from that, which I highly recommend you do, you can have your cake and eat it too.
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