How to Cook a Whole Chicken in the Oven Here is our Test Kitchen’s tried-and-true method for cooking a whole chicken in five easy steps, with five (or fewer) ingredients.

Here’s how it works: You set a dry-rubbed raw chicken carcass on top of a half-full can of beer. (See the recipe at the bottom of this post.) Then you set it on a fired-up grill.

Take it easy on Labor Day with Elizabeth Heiskell's sweet and spicy beer can chicken, which can be roasted or grilled.

Or you can even take a hair dryer to it and blast that bird for a while. If you're interested watch this video and allow Amiel Stanek to teach you almost every way to cook a whole chicken.