Gadgetory

Amazon's Alexa voice assistant is especially useful in the kitchen we're taking commands hands-free can be particularly helpful here are six reasons you might want to keep your Alexa speaker in the kitchen out of the box Alexa can help you maintain lists for shopping and to do's all you have to do is tell Alexa what you want to add and specify which lists you want to add it to you can say something as simple as add eggs it's added to your shopping list since eggs is a noun Alexa understands it's an item you would like to add to your shopping list you can also say add bread to my shopping list to check this list in other lists open the Alexa app and click lists in the side menu you can also sync your lists with any lists cose lists or picnic in the Alexa app Alexa is also capable of providing unit conversions on-the-fly just say something like convert to cups to milliliters or how many cups are in a gallon equals 16 cups for certain ingredients you can also ask things like how much does a cup of flour way there are 0.31 pounds of flour in one cup forget an egg timer Alexa is capable of managing multiple simultaneous timers just say start a timer for 5 minutes after 5 minutes passes the speaker will try them until you tell it to stop we creating multiple timers give them names by saying start a pizza timer for 20 minutes to check on a timer just ask how much time is left on my pizza timer or what are my timers Alexis catalog of third-party skills is home to several helpful recipe skills such as all recipes Hellmann's best recipes Betty Crocker Food Network and goodness from Nestle not only will these skills offer up some great recipes to try they will tell you the ingredients needed and walk you through the process Food Network lets you look up recipes by chef or TV show all recipes since directions to your phone and best recipes will give you recipes for the ingredients you already have and there are many many more skills to choose from if you're not sure how many calories of food has just asked Alexa it may not always have an answer for you but it's a great place to start for example try saying how many calories are there angry yogurt strain yogurt contains 100 calories you can provide info and carbohydrates as well but only for certain items it depends on how widely available the nutritional information for a product is and it helps if the food is something generic such as steak or broccoli five point five one grams per 100 grams for more tips and tricks and other how to's be sure to check out cnet.com forward slash how to