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Duck at a wedding!

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  • #32
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,375 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    I personally would love to see Duck as a choice at any Meal , but I would warn I was at a graduation ceremony Last Summer , where Duck was the meal option and at our table over half the people had a real problem with it , it is quite a fatty dish and cooked in bulk can be quite greasy.


  • #33
    GingerLily
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    Confit of duck should have all the fat rendered from it, so shouldn't be too fatty.

    Also it definitely suits mass catering as it can be easily made in advance. I've had it at a wedding and it was perfection!

    We're thinking of hake and lamb ourselves, rather than salmon and chicken/beef.


  • #34
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    GingerLily wrote:
    Confit of duck should have all the fat rendered from it, so shouldn't be too fatty.

    Also it definitely suits mass catering as it can be easily made in advance. I've had it at a wedding and it was perfection!

    We're thinking of hake and lamb ourselves, rather than salmon and chicken/beef.

    The fear would be that the fat wasn't rendered and the skin wasn't crispy! I've had it done badly enough times in restaurants to be wary...

    Lamb and hake sounds great! We have a saddle of Lamb option but it comes with a fiver surcharge.

    I may as well ask, has anyone had the duck in the Galway Bay Hotel?


  • #35
    woodchuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,411 ✭✭✭✭woodchuck


    SarahMollie wrote: »
    I was at a wedding where they did something similar for desert. Chocolate for the men and a sort of panna cotta for the ladies.... all sorts of swapping happened, and there were a few grumpy faces... wouldnt be a fan of the idea myself.

    :eek: I would not be a happy camper if I was denied a chocolate option based on my gender (and surely chocolate is more liked by women than men anyway ;))

    OP I never order duck for weird moral reasons, but I'd still eat it if served to me at a wedding. Don't think you'd get many objecting to duck and if the venue has it an option, they must be confident that they can pull it off!


  • #36
    SarahMollie
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    woodchuck wrote: »
    :eek: I would not be a happy camper if I was denied a chocolate option based on my gender (and surely chocolate is more liked by women than men anyway ;))

    I know! Everyone was a but bemused by the fact that the women didnt get the chocolate! I swapped half of mine with my OH anyway so had best of both worlds :) But overall it was a bit strange.


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  • #37
    Danjamin1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Danjamin1


    We had duck as a third option at our wedding last month & it was the most popular main on the day! The hotel manager advised against it at the time as it isn't normally chosen but he was telling us afterwards that he'll consider recommending it in future!


  • #38
    Story Bud?
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    What you get to eat being decided by your gender?

    I thought I'd heard it all when it came to weddings, clearly I had not.


  • #39
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Thoie


    The last few weddings I've been to had lovely food, very high standard of catering, and I now couldn't tell you what the hell I ate. I remember it was lovely, and beautifully presented and "unusual", but not a clue beyond that.

    Unless you make people slaughter their own lambs at the table or something, most people won't remember in 2 months time.


  • #40
    Bandana boy
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    Thoie wrote: »
    The last few weddings I've been to had lovely food, very high standard of catering, and I now couldn't tell you what the hell I ate. I remember it was lovely, and beautifully presented and "unusual", but not a clue beyond that.

    Unless you make people slaughter their own lambs at the table or something, most people won't remember in 2 months time.

    If its really bad you will remember it and it will be talked about for years , I had a meal at a wedding in Faithlegg back in 2006 that I was only talking about with a fellow guest last week.


  • #41
    GingerLily
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    Bandana boy wrote: »
    Thoie wrote: »
    The last few weddings I've been to had lovely food, very high standard of catering, and I now couldn't tell you what the hell I ate. I remember it was lovely, and beautifully presented and "unusual", but not a clue beyond that.

    Unless you make people slaughter their own lambs at the table or something, most people won't remember in 2 months time.

    If its really bad you will remember it and it will be talked about for years , I had a meal at a wedding in Faithlegg back in 2006 that I was only talking about with a fellow guest last week.

    You have to share why so we can be sure to avoid making the same mistakes!


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  • #42
    A_Sober_Paddy
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    HamsterFace wrote: »
    Hi there,

    We're beginning to pick our menu and are hoping for a little advice.

    One of the options is a confit of duck leg which we both love but are wondering could that really be done well and served well times a hundred?

    Our venu does have a good rep but it just sounds as something which would be hard to do, practically speaking.

    Other options I like both come with a surcharge, am not mad on chicken or roast beef...

    Appreciate any opinions or experiences

    Duck is proper hard to cook properly, I've never had good duck, always overcooked and if for a wedding unless it's a 5 star I'd stay away


  • #43
    SarahMollie
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    A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »
    Duck is proper hard to cook properly, I've never had good duck, always overcooked and if for a wedding unless it's a 5 star I'd stay away

    See, you say that, but we had it in work yesterday of all places and it was delicious. Nicely seasoned and with extremely crispy skin, everyone was raving about it. (Yes, our canteen has notions before anyone asks!)

    I've had that many chewy, overcooked fillet of beef at this stage that I'd happy chance my arm on some duck.

    Once your other option is reasonable safe to satisfy the fussy eaters, then I'd go for it.


  • #44
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Story Bud? wrote: »
    What you get to eat being decided by your gender?

    I thought I'd heard it all when it came to weddings, clearly I had not.

    I think this issue deserves a thread of its own. :)

    Its a strange one alright, I mean, how do you decide what is a manly dish and what is a girlie one?


  • #45
    meeeeh
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    It doesn't matter that much anyway. I'be been to plenty of weddings where the food was good, but maybe only one or two where it was delicious. It's hard to do perfect food that will be served to 200 people. Plus often wine isn't properly matched to the food. So if someone decided to serve me good duck and par it with right wine I would be more than happy even if food would be gender specific.


  • #46
    lazygal
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    neris wrote: »
    we had duck for the women and beef/steak for the men at our wedding, guys were complaining that they didnt get duck and women were complaining that their duck was been nicked by their other halfs. you cant win

    I'm so confused by this I don't know where to start.


  • #47
    freshpopcorn
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    Being honest it all depends in your family and friends. I love duck. I'd prefer duck breast over duck leg. I know my family and friends doesn't like it tough.
    I'd have a more traditional option on the menu as well because weddings are long days and I'd fell awful if my guests went home hungry.


  • #48
    Fluffy Cat 88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Fluffy Cat 88


    eviltwin wrote: »
    I think this issue deserves a thread of its own. :)

    Its a strange one alright, I mean, how do you decide what is a manly dish and what is a girlie one?

    Whoever thought that sort of meal segregation was a good idea needs a kick in the hole!

    Ffs!


  • #49
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    Maybe it was out of consideration for the ladies that they would get less calories and so continue to look like pretty little things for their menfolk?


  • #50
    meeeeh
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    Nasty much?

    Duck has more calories than filet of beef.


  • #51
    Elliott S
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    Duck is a very popular meat with most of my family and friends! We'd all be delira to see it on a wedding menu.


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  • #52
    Elliott S
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    neris wrote: »
    we had duck for the women and beef/steak for the men at our wedding, guys were complaining that they didnt get duck and women were complaining that their duck was been nicked by their other halfs. you cant win

    You can win by offering either one to everyone! :D


  • #53
    HamsterFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 832 ✭✭✭HamsterFace


    meeeeh wrote:
    Nasty much?

    It was a hilarious joke


  • #54
    Gatica
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    We had duck leg confit as a starter option. Think it proved to be popular with at least most of guests that commented. I'm sure not to everyone's taste, but then boring option might not have been to others'. So may as well just pick what we'd like.

    Duck confit is cooked in oil at particular temperature and for specific time, any chef worth his weight should be able to do a wedding sized batch of it. It's not like cooking steak to several levels of cooked. We'd chocolate fondant dessert and even most of that came out right, that I know, and that would be hard to time.

    Also gender food segregation would annoy me personally. My OH is more fond of desserts than I am, whereas I like savoury food and steak tartare. I'd be more likely to go for "manly" menu than girly...


  • #55
    pwurple
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    The only risk I see with duck confit, is that some muppets don't know what it is.

    I was out to dinner with some posturing corporate types recently who sent back their duck confit because it wasn't pink. How the staff managed not to roll their eyeballs at them I'll never know. They just said 'that's how we serve it here, perhaps you would like to choose something else'.

    Otherwise, yeah, go for it! It's my birthday treat food.


  • #56
    evolving_doors
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    Well if it looks like a duck and qua.. sorry, that's your missus I just saw :)

    Ya go for it, although the best thing to do might be to try and talk to the head chef for ideas (bypass the hotel organiser if they let you ), at the end of the day the chief can play to their own skills rather than being told what to cook.

    Duck sounds good to me though


  • #57
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,535 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    meeeeh wrote: »
    It doesn't matter that much anyway. I'be been to plenty of weddings where the food was good, but maybe only one or two where it was delicious. It's hard to do perfect food that will be served to 200 people. Plus often wine isn't properly matched to the food. So if someone decided to serve me good duck and par it with right wine I would be more than happy even if food would be gender specific.

    That's grand if you like duck and want duck. It doesn't matter how well they are matched if you don't want it, don't like it and are denied the other meal based on gender. Only tools of the highest order would do something like this.

    OP, if you like the duck, put duck as one of your options.

    I think the only things I've seen as main course in the last 10 years going to weddings are beef/salmon/sea bass/turkey & ham/chicken. Mainly beef and salmon.


  • #58
    meeeeh
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    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    That's grand if you like duck and want duck. It doesn't matter how well they are matched if you don't want it, don't like it and are denied the other meal based on gender. Only tools of the highest order would do something like this.

    The best wedding food I had was the set menu where wine and food were paired. I'm not sure there was even vegetarian option and first three courses had white wine and next three red. So there was no guzzling half of bottle of hearty red with the delicate white fish just because people are used to drink that by the bucket when watching TV at home. I'm starting to think half of the people go to weddings only so they can bitch about the couple and ironically more choice you give to people more likely they will avoid having decent meal.

    I would not segregate food by gender but it's hardly the worst offence you can make. Anyway if you want offended I am sure there is plenty to be offended about at any wedding.


  • #59
    HamsterFace
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    Thankfully, I've never once heard anyone bitching about the couple.
    And I've been to a lot of weddings.


  • #60
    yogalady
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    Just a note. I love duck but I have noticed at weddings that sometimes guests order fish not because it is their favourite but because it is lighter than the heavier meats such as beef/lamb/duck. With so many courses people may not pick the duck as it is seen as a heavier meat and people don't want to be weighted down after the meal


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  • #61
    Princess Peach
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    I wouldn't order duck confit, because it's very rich and doesn't really agree with me but since you are having a fish option anyway and probably a vegetarian option too I'd say go for it and everyone should be happy :)


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