No useful suggestion here -- never cooked goose -- but rather a tale of what can go wrong. Heard on the radio once -- a family had a grand spread for Christmas dinner before them, the dad untwists the wire on the champagne and coaxes the plastic cork thingy upwards -- it flies out with a vengeance, striking the cheapo glass cover on the standard cheapo ceiling light fixture, shattering in into countless tiny shards of glass which showered down onto the turkey, the mashed potatoes, everything.

Lucky for them, the Chinese restaurant was open.

Beware plastic champagne "corks."

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