Comments on: What does ‘Confit’ Mean? http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean Food - Photography & More Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:43:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-45787 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:32:00 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-45787 Kev, Welcome to the site and thanks for taking the time to comment. You raise a couple of very interesting points there, one is that confit is used and abused and the end product differs vastly from one place to another and second that, as is often the case in England a celebrated restaurant isn't always a good one! Either way Kev, the duck should be tender!! Kind regards Miles Kev,
Welcome to the site and thanks for taking the time to comment. You raise a couple of very interesting points there, one is that confit is used and abused and the end product differs vastly from one place to another and second that, as is often the case in England a celebrated restaurant isn’t always a good one!
Either way Kev, the duck should be tender!!
Kind regards
Miles

]]> by: Kev http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-45783 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:31:13 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-45783 Recently, in a very much praised restaurant in Cork, I ordered duck confit. What came to me was a variation on crispy fried duck. Meat cooked to crematorium condition, dry and barely tasting of duck. Main course arrived with sauce almost like water running into the creamed potatos. I will never, ever eat in that place again but still see people raving about the food on websites and in the newspapers. Am I unlucky? The restaurant was far from full. On the other hand, in a restaurant in Mayo, I had duck so tender it didn't need chewing! Recently, in a very much praised restaurant in Cork, I ordered duck confit. What came to me was a variation on crispy fried duck. Meat cooked to crematorium condition, dry and barely tasting of duck. Main course arrived with sauce almost like water running into the creamed potatos. I will never, ever eat in that place again but still see people raving about the food on websites and in the newspapers. Am I unlucky? The restaurant was far from full. On the other hand, in a restaurant in Mayo, I had duck so tender it didn’t need chewing!

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-39447 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 07:00:33 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-39447 Nicola, Welcome to the site and many thanks for your kind words, I'm glad that you enjoyed the post and hope you return again soon. I write a fair bit of rubbish so you'd have to be patient!! Kind regards Miles Nicola,
Welcome to the site and many thanks for your kind words, I’m glad that you enjoyed the post and hope you return again soon. I write a fair bit of rubbish so you’d have to be patient!!

Kind regards
Miles

]]> by: Nicola http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-39442 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:33:22 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-39442 Wow you should be an author, Miles. Words like "meltingly tender" are so descriptive and visual! Thanks for the article, it was very informative and fun to read. Wow you should be an author, Miles. Words like “meltingly tender” are so descriptive and visual! Thanks for the article, it was very informative and fun to read.

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-36716 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:22:35 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-36716 Erin, Welcome to the site, glad you found the post some use. It is a much abused term in my profession!! Miles Erin,
Welcome to the site, glad you found the post some use. It is a much abused term in my profession!!

Miles

]]> by: Erin http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-36697 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:14:29 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-36697 By the way - LMAO at CID!!! By the way - LMAO at CID!!!

]]> by: Erin http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-36695 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:11:11 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-36695 Thanks for clearing this up. I hear this ALL THE TIME on Food Network. I was watching 'Chopped' and I think one competitor was confiting watermelon so I HAD to look it up. LOL now after hearing you explanation. Wow! Thanks again. Thanks for clearing this up. I hear this ALL THE TIME on Food Network. I was watching ‘Chopped’ and I think one competitor was confiting watermelon so I HAD to look it up. LOL now after hearing you explanation. Wow! Thanks again.

]]> by: Elsie Nean http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-530 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:03:43 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-530 Miles Well, I never new that. Many thanks for enlightening us on this one. Miles
Well, I never new that. Many thanks for enlightening us on this one.

]]> by: Miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-526 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:11:01 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-526 Cid, I'd best choose my words more carefully! Miles Cid,
I’d best choose my words more carefully!
Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-525 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:02:19 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/what-does-confit-mean#comment-525 Miles, That's something I didn't know and now have a yen for .... by the way, terms like 'meltingly tender' have a strange affect on middleaged women .... I'm away now to take my medicine :) Cid Miles,

That’s something I didn’t know and now have a yen for …. by the way, terms like ‘meltingly tender’ have a strange affect on middleaged women …. I’m away now to take my medicine :)

Cid

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