As far as how you cook turkey, it really is not that difficult. First of all, you need to purchase a turkey. A fresh turkey is ready to go right away while a frozen one will need to be thawed overnight at least in order to be able to cook it. Remove the wrapping from the turkey and pull the bag of innards out of the turkey cavity. Put the bag aside as it contains the turkey neck, gizzard, liver, and heart. Now, rinse the turkey inside and out with fresh cold water. Next, put the turkey in your turkey roaster. Salt and pepper it all over and put it in the oven to roast. You figure roasting time by looking at the wrapper - it will tell you how many minutes to cook it per pound. The number of pounds your turkey weighs will be market on the package as well.

Now you just roast the turkey. Roast it with the cover on it for the first hour or so, but uncover it for the last hour so that it will brown. Baste the turkey with butter every half hour or so by pulling it out and runnng butter over the top of the turkey. When the turkey is done, which some of them have a plastic pop up bottom that tells you when its done, you let it cool for a little while and then you can carve it and serve.