Which is the best tasting duck?

[longarm]

Following in the footsteps of the 'Fastest duck' thread.. here is another that is a bit more subjective.
My vote goes to the woody. What's not to like about a duck that eats filberts? I find its flavor to be relatively mild and somewhat 'creamy'. The veal of ducks!
2nd place to GW teal.

[Wang]

THe teal is generally the only one I'll eat. Everything else goes to jerky or duckeroni. Since we've been shooting a few woodies, maybe I need to cook one up to freshen up on their flavor.

[Swamp Puppy]

farm duck

[280ackimp]

I do not think there is such a thing. They all taste great made into jerky though.

[hawg boss]

If you guys dont like Sprig, leave them for me.

Teal are #2

[ICHTHYDEMON]

Cans

[D3smartie]

tough to beat grain fed mallards.

[taggbro]

Teal - hands down my favorite.

My buddies could never understand why I would pass up greenheads and sprigs for teal.

[ElkMaster78]

Elk and Deer, everything else sausage and jerky.

[Bigshot]

Wood duck can pass as elk steak when I cook it.
Teal is top notch and Canvasback is tasty too.. The rest go to pepperoni...

[johndeeregreen]

Which is the best tasting duck?

That my friend's is a oxymoron. The words "Best tasting" and "Duck" do not and can not ever go together. Those things taste like poop.IMO

all in good fun boy's

[jokester]

Mergies

Nah...I like teal or grain fed mallards myself.

-jokester

[As yet un-named]

They're all good if they're cooked right. I have a question to pose those that say ducks taste like poop, or that they don't like any of them... How do you normally cook red meat? Rare, med. rare, med. or well done? Not to hijack the thread, but I believe "how cooked" is the single most important influence on duck taste normally. If you go past med. rare, they all taste like muddy liver some worse than others. You properly care for a spoonie, then don't cook past med. rare it can be so mild as to hardly have any taste at all. Having said all that, I really like widgeon, teal, sprig, and cans in no particular order.

[Threemuch]

Wood duck, mallard, GWT, pintail, and wigeon are all great table fare. Ringnecks, Smilers, bluebills etc are a little stronger in flavor, but a great in stews, gumbos etc.

What's the best? I'll take a FAT mallard. Not a skinny young of the year, but a 4 pounder with a quarter inch of fat between his skin and breast. One with no pin feathers, and no holes in the breast skin. A good roaster.

Anyone who thinks all ducks taste bad can't cook. If you brine or age any wild waterfowl, even the dreaded sawbill or mudhen, you can make good eats. With a sweet and spicy sauce, I'll take any of them, even the fishduck.

Ducks are great table fare. And Geese are flying roast beef.

[johndeeregreen]

As yet un-named Thanks for the tip, but I've it had fried, roasted, jerky, and deep fried. Sorry it still tasted like poop. The jerky was the best but it still, well you know.

[Ethical hunter]

Teal, Can, Pintail, woodie, Mallard - in that order.

EH

[wife&3kids]

Easy - canvasback..

Ducks that have the highest percentage of grain/eelgrass/rice or whatever to percentage of live animal diet taste the best... The can has the highest I believe - I could be wrong.. with liek 85+ percent of diet being not animals.. I think the mallard is second..

I like Teal

[baltz526]

snow goose then grain fed mallards, gadwall,

[007SPRIG]

Fulvous tree ducks. But for me I'll take a fat sprig with that super white skin any day. Yummo.

[steelheadslayer]

teal, and if you've never shot an eastern WA or OR mallard feeding on grain, you're missing out.

[triggerman]

IMO, I would have to say Teal are best eating ducks around!!


Triggerman

[Salty Walty]

Brant, Canvasback, mallard, teal, pintail

[Sauvie's Slayer]

Canvasback, teal, woodie, pintail. In that order.

[A5 Light 12]

I hope its the two fat mallards roasting away in my oven right now.

And to answer the question, greenwings, pintail, mallard, woodie....in what ever order they come into the spread.

[OuterLimits]

grain fed mallards are the best.

[redfish89]

and teal

[cwh]

Personally, I'd rather make jerky out of mallard than anything else. Not that I like them less or more, but there just isn't much to make jerky out of on a teal...

When I make duck mcnuggets, they all taste pretty good, excepting the fish ducks. I just can't get past that smell, and the experience of cleaning my first merganser/first duck.... didn't know what I was doing and ended up pulling like 40 little fish out of those two flying fishnets (scotch double). No thanks.

[Joe Schwab]

That great big fat one that goes "gobble, gobble".

[wife&3kids]

Salty Walty hit it on the head....

[thehunt]

They all taste like goose, and goose tastes like pepperoni, sausage, and jerky!!

[Beeatease]

Geoduck.....

[Flying Roast Beef]

Originally Posted by Threemuch

And Geese are flying roast beef.

I have to agree! LOL.

[duckboy]

SAWBILL!
8 days a week

Any time.
Everytime

All the time.


A 5 lb drake Croaker is good eats.

Just get yourself a gal that is a wiz in the kitchen .

Mrs Duckboy could make shoe leather taste like roast beast.

[joe_camo]

hen blackduck

[Big TULE]

Not sure i would eat a mallard from Sauvies to the coast. I work in longview and i see them in the cannals eating, yuck.

I like wood ducks the best.

[steelheadslayer]

Big TULE, that's why I buy a lot of garlic salt and onions and some thing called a long soak marinade. If nothing else, BBQ until black and crispy and then order chinese.

[Swamp Puppy]

coast ducks are stinky...you don't find too many corn kernels stuck in their throats. lol.

thanks god for jerkey and Chili.

[Northwest Pest]

Wood Duck followed by Teal.