Poultry

Duck breast

Ankbröst

58°CRest 5 min

Cook to this all the way through

Skin down, low heat, and served pinker than chicken.

Safe minimum 72°CLivsmedelsverket

Where it comes fromBreast

On the grill

Duck breast is conventionally served pink, closer to a steak than to chicken. Start it skin-down over indirect or gentle heat to render the fat slowly without scorching it.

Livsmedelsverket sets the same poultry floor for duck as for chicken, 72 °C; common restaurant practice pulls it far earlier. Cook it through if you are at all unsure of the source.

Seasoning

In the grill

230 °Cdirect

Straight over the coals, lid off or barely on, and watched.

Smoke it with apple, maple or alder.

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