Get someone to cook a wood duck (field handled properly) medium to medium rare. My experience is zero “gamey” taste at all. It just tastes like red meat.

A roasted wood duck is one of my favorite meals. It usually takes me about an hour to eat one, and I get every bite of it, including the legs and the wings. It's probably not a pretty sight for someone else to watch, so I make sure I am the only person around and eat it like a wild animal.

Snow Geese eat grass/grain sprouts and are also pretty bad tasting!!

Do you roast it to medium rare? I want to smoke one, and grill one, but haven't thought of roasting one.

I just cooked them in the oven on broil before getting a pellet grill a few years ago. It's wild game, so I cook it until it's 150 degrees at the breastbone. I think it took about 12 minutes for the last one I did, but I go by the thermometer instead of measuring time.

My mother used to steam them somehow before putting them in the oven to finish, but I have forgotten exactly how she did it. That definitely tenderized them, and I would try to figure out how to do that if it were something I got to eat often. I am lucky to get one a year.

Like most things, they can be great or not. Some depends on what they eat, some depends on how you prepare it.

Cook wood ducks on overtop with broth and red wine, peppers and onions like a pot roast ; serve over rice. Garlic bread for sopping. AWESOME