Wild Game Recipes: Plucking Ducks with Paraffin Wax

After years of talking & thinking about it I finally decided to try using some hot wax to clean my ducks. We had a great first part of the season and I had a strap of birds aging in the fridge so figured it was time! I’ve tried it twice now and the second time I was twice as fast so I figure after a few more rounds I’ll get even better. It’s a lot of fun and also great if you have a few buddies around to help. My kids even got in on the action after being timid at first and loved it. Although they aren’t as neat with the feathers in their plucking so it was a bit of a mess they really got into it. I also found some great resources to help me get setup:

Hank Shaw’s How to Pluck a Duck video.

The Field to Table Cookbook by Susan Ebert (it has a great how-to on the wax method)

I think I may still need to tweak a few things but here’s how it went:

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save