Pros and Cons of Goose for Christmas Dinner?

[scotlou]

Trying to decide whether to order a goose for Christmas dinner. Have heard both good and bad points about it. WIll it feed up to 7 adults and 2 children??

You might need something wlse depending on size. We always have Goose and also have a ham and/or something else. This year we are having beef as well. Goose is lovely quite rich and you don't need to much. Fantastic cold with jacket potatoes and salad the next day. There is an awful lot of fat which you will have to constantly drain but the fat does help make fantastic roasties. I will check with my mum about size and get back to you.

Pros: yummy meat, loads of fat to keep in jars for perfect roasties for months.

Cons: Pricey, very stinky before you cook it.

I'm not sure about size. Did the smallest I could years ago for just DH and I (those were the days haaahhhhh) and it did us about 4 meals I think - it is very rich.

it is delicious, go for it. might not feed 7 well though.

I don't really want to cook more than one thing - so hope it can feed a lot of people!

no it wont feed that many

Guess it'll need to be turkey then - or could I buy 2 geese I wonder? Need to do more research!

I don't think it would feed that many, either.

For that many I would get a free-range 'individual breed' turkey...Black Gold, or whatever they are called. NNot a huge great tasteles dry thing, a compact tasty well-bred bird.

yes a good quality organic free range turkey is delicious (spendy though)

Do usually get a free range turkey (my parents treat us!) - just fancied a change. I've found there's a free range poultry place quite clsoe to us so I'll see what they have.

You won't fit 2 geese on the oven, unless you are a professional caterer!
They are all bone, fat and ribcage!
Nice though - have one when everyone else has gone home!

It certainly describes you and I Batters!

I have to agree that Goose is very rich and so bony that it won't feed as many as 7.
For something really special don't go for any old free range white turkey. You want a Norfolk Black Turkey, if that's too expensive go for a Bronze which is a cross between the Black and usual white one. And if you can choose your bird, you want a hen. Now there's something special

We had goose last yr - 8 adults 4 kids - was biggest goose butcher could get and only just fit in oven. Was plenty but no left overs

Am eagerly anticipating same again this year.

How much is a goose compared to a turkey?

Pricey! Seem to recall it was approx £50

Think I'll stick with turkey then!

I could, of course be talking complete cr*p. Memory is not what it used to be.
DH ordered this years - so i'll ask him in a bit if he remembers approx how much they said it'd be. (That was the biggest possible goose apparently).

Frozen geese in Lidl for £12.99 at the moment.

I think we're doing goose this year. I can't stand turkey.

I think we'll put sausages around it or something, though, just to be safe. It'll be 6 adults, and 3 kids.

stinky before you cook it? - oh treacle, yuk!

A friend of mine got a goose a couple of years ago and found there was very little meat on it compared to turkey or other fowl. Luckily she had a ham as well.

Very, very, very , very fatty. You will be cleaning your cooker for an age!

Even our 'foodie' Moondog said she would never have one again!

Don't tell me that! I don't want a bloody turkey, I hate turkey, and I've got everyone round to goose as an idea ...