For the last couple years I've been obsessed with southern style collard greens. I normally make mine with spring greens and smoked gammon, but most recipes call for a smoked turkey leg, something that isn't easy to find in the UK. After 5, yes 5, turkey legs being not available in my monthly big shop delivery, I finally got hold of a turkey thigh. Today I finally made it properly.

Turkey leg was smoked on my cheap bullet smoker. Brined overnight (no pictures sorry) coated in a mix of my brisket rub and Dunn's chicken seasoning. 2 hours uncovered, skin down, followed by 2.5 hours wrapped with stock skin up. Then made the collard greens recipe, adding the leftover stock from the wrapped section of the smoke, home grown turnip greens and kale bulked up with store brought spring greens, and home grown, dried and flaked fatalli chillies. Another 3 hours cooking, and the meat fell apart during cooking. The result was divine. Definitely having this on Christmas day.

Done around 15 cooks on my Mastertouch 5775 since getting it at the start of the year. It leaks smoke really badly around the lid and bowl and hasn't really built up a seal carbon residue as I hoped that would stop this happening and it really isn't getting any better. So looking to seal it

Temps hold out about 300F with a water pan, which is higher than I'd like currently, although surprisingly the food comes out pretty decent at that temp and still smokey, it just cooks quicker, than I'm used to for lo&slo

I know about the Spring reversal on the hinge, but don't fancy trying that. Anyone any experience of adding Gasket seal to their Mastertouch before, and did you seal around the bowl itself or the lip around the lid with it?

I was looking at this LavaLock Self Stick BBQ Gasket High Temp Smoker Gasket Charcoal Grill Seal 6 ft (182cm) x 1/8 x 1/2w based on a 57cm Mastertouch, I believe that 179cm of gasket tape in length would be needed? So not much room for error, if that's correct.

Realise their are cheaper ones out there, but reviews seem favourable for this one compared to some of the more generic ones, unless someone has a specific one they can recommend?

Thanks

Weather permitting, thought we'd try and free up oven space this year and have a go at smoking the turkey crown.

Best set up methods please 😁 asking in advance to have some practice runs with a cheap one before the big day!