Smoked Turkey HELP 
Some foolish dramneurodivergent and I have been tasked with the turkey for the family Thanksgiving.
I had always just baked a cornish hen for myself and have no experience with larger fowl; he only has experience with smoking beef or pork. It has been agreed on that this turkey will be smoked.
Are there any successful smokedturkeychads here to lend guidance? We're looking to smoke a 10-12lb to serve 6 peepos. I am currently being silly and leaning towards seriouseat's spatchpeepee method.
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I cooked a 3.8kg goose last weekend. Was a test run for Christmas (family) and me and my marsey
ate 3 days. I don't smoke it though, it was done in the oven.
I used a bread roll & mushroom filling with ginger, coriander, chili and lime zest. Outside a light salt rub. Poured 150ml of chicken stock in the baking dish.
Put in on a grillage (breast up) in the baking dish so it doesn't touch the fluid that gathers there and baked it for ~3 hours. Every 15min use a spoon and pour some of the liquid onto the goose. You might have to add more chicken stock over time.
Breast & flesh was quite good. Filling was a bit too hot for family (my sister doesn't like hot stuff). I put too much liquid in it and it reached the back of the goose so no crispy skin there, need to keep that in mind.
If anyone has a good recipe for the stomach I'm open. I boiled it with the heart in saltwater with bay leafs & juniper berries for about 10min. Then fried it with the liver together in a pan with garlic & rosemary. Liver & heart were good, but the stomach wasn't. Texture was too rubbery for my taste.
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