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, J. Kenji López-Alt, uses both Siri and the screen-less Amazon Echo at home. “I use Echo mostly for music and for keeping a shopping list,” he said via email. It’s also useful for the most high-tech chefs who want to control their “smart” appliances like smart coffee brewers or slow cookers via the speakers, like López-Alt: “I also use it as a timer [and] to control my Joule sous vide circulator.
But López-Alt, like most other professionals, is content without a screen. “I don’t really need video or tutorial assistance in most recipes,” he said. “I can see the usefulness for home cooks, though!” Indeed, the screen is most clutch for the non-professionals, as I found firsthand. “Google, how do I wash cilantro?” I asked while cooking curry. Without taking my hands away from what I was doing, I was suddenly watching a video of someone washing cilantro. As Gebreyesus said, he believes these screened assistants “can be of valuable use for home cooks or beginners in the field that are still lacking the basic skills.
Still, there are limitations. Both the Home Hub and Echo Show can only pull up and dictate from a limited number of recipes, so if you’re hoping to cook that one specific side dish fromUltimately, no matter your level of culinary skills, the most universally useful contribution smart speakers make to the cooking process may be setting a strong kitchen vibe.
In that way, a voice assistant could simply function like your culinarily-lacking pal, said McGorman. “It’s like having a friend who doesn’t know how to cook but spends time in the kitchen with you and refills your wine glass — they might not know a lot, but they are definitely bringing something to the table.”
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