Alexa: Tasks in the Kitchen

Hello, my name is Ricky Enger, and today we’re going to get some great tips for using our Alexa Amazon Echo digital assistant for a few tasks in the kitchen. If you’re not yet familiar with how to use your Echo device, check out the first couple of workshops in this series to get up to speed.

Okay, so there’s a lot to keep track of in the kitchen and having an assistant to do some of the work is really gonna be useful. Before we start cooking, let’s get an idea of the kinds of things that our assistant can help with.

One of the things I always struggle with is figuring out measurements and remembering how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup, or how many tablespoons are in a stick of butter. And it turns out, we can ask our assistant those questions, phrased just like that. The idea is that our commands are always meant to feel really natural, like things we’d actually say to an assistant. So, let’s try it.

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