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First time with the joule

Laura_D_Renaldi_Korff_372356

My students are cooking a Christmas dinner for their teachers. They want to cook 15 lbs of duck breast. What are your suggestions and tips for using the joule for this amount of meat?

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FrankM_3301

What is their goal for the duck breast? How will it be finished after the initial cook? The challenge with duck breast is keeping each breast flat so that you can sear the skin side and render the fat. Alternately, you could use the CS recipe, which removes the skin...but you would need access to LN to finish the skin later. However, I have taken this approach without LN, by freezing, then grinding the skin...then rendering. It's labor intensive, but you can get crispy skin "crumble.". If I were going for a traditional finish, I might cook to 55 or 56F with the skin on, then sear to render, crisp and take it the rest of the way to its internal temperature. If you package them individually, or in pairs and keep them flat...with plenty of room for circulation...you only need an hour in the bath.

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fisher23

Just make sure they are in a single thickness in multiple bags and that you have plenty of water circulating all around on all of the bags, don't over crowd them or they won't cook evenly. Agree with @FrankM_3301 on temp. Kenji at SE has a recipe I have used and it worked great.

mattpope

As the others mentioned, what is the end presentation? For comparison, my friend who owns a duck farm and frequently caters events simply leaves on the fat cap and grills them on a large cast iron pan. He is also a 4th gen duck farmer who has been doing this all his life so he is able to poke them and can tell when they need to come off the grill. For the rest of our group (myself included) I prefer to s/v (130~135) them with the fat cap attached and then grill them in a cast iron pan similar to Kenji at SE. I use simple cardamon rub that can be found here at Liberty Duck. They also have a "love" rub recipe here which is great, but a lot more ingredients. I put the rub on after the come out of the water bath.