Pheasant

[probbq]

Hi all,
Got given a few brace of pheasant and was just wondering if anyone had tried cold smoking the breasts before, if so would love some tips.

[saucisson]

Treat them like duck? eg the first stage of this post:

http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=11346.0

or:

http://holyhabanero.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... -fume.html

[tristar]

That is definitely one to try! I love duck breasts!

[Ryan C]

Coincidentally, I started a couple of duck breasts for a similar recipe yesterday. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm sure pheasant would be good like this too although pheasant breasts are a lot smaller than duck and pheasant is probably more similar to chicken than duck. Probbq, I would wager that it would be best to keep the skin on the pheasant breasts for this which is a bit of a pain since pheasant skin is so thin and tears very easily when plucking. Try to take no more than 2-3 feathers each pluck and you should be OK.

Good luck

Ryan