Allrecipes now works on Alexa enabled devices
When it comes to recipe sharing, Allrecipes is among the best. With abbout 1.5 billion hits in a year, Allrecipes offer comprehensive cooking recipes. This week, Allrecipes has announced tie up with Amazon to provide Alexa integration. Allrecipes Skill for Alexa is now available for free through the Amazon Alexa app available on iOS, Android and Fire tablets.
Now, cooking lovers can use voice to quickly find recipes. Once a recipe is selected, Alexa will guide the chef/cook through each step to prepared the dish. While cooking, users can control the pace by pasusing, moving back and forth etc.
“So many of our customers are using their Alexa-enabled devices in the kitchen, and with the addition of Alexa skills like Allrecipes, that experience only gets better,” says Rob Pulciani, Director, Amazon Alexa. “We’re excited to work with Allrecipes to create a cooking experience that leverages the benefit of hands-free Alexa voice technology. Getting meal recommendations and step-by-step recipes – with just your voice – makes putting dinner on the table a little easier for our busy customers.”
“Allrecipes has a long tradition of being first to introduce innovative new experiences that make grocery shopping and home cooking more rewarding, from our beginnings as the first social media food site two decades ago to the seamless integration of our brand into connected kitchen appliances this past year,” says Stan Pavlovsky, President of Meredith Digital. “Our vision is to make Allrecipes’ content and community available wherever and whenever needed, so preparing dishes is as easy as possible for our audience of busy families and passionate food enthusiasts.”
Cooks with Alexa-enabled device like Amazon Echo or Echo Dot can just ask:
- “Ask Allrecipes, what can I make with chicken, bacon and cheddar cheese?
- “Ask Allrecipes for the recipe of the day.”
- “Ask Allrecipes to find the World’s Best Lasagna recipe.”
- “Ask Allrecipes, how much butter is needed for Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies?”