Cook Recap

Inspiration

I usually cook from recipes on my phone or tablet. While cooking, I often forget about the ingredients and their quantities, which forces me to go to the phone, unlock it and scroll, usually with greasy or wet hands! I decided to develop an Alexa skill to help me.

What it does

You tell Alexa about the ingredients and quantities that you'll need for cooking and then you can just ask at any time. Alexa will remember the ingredients for 3 hours.

How I built it

The session with the ingredients is stored in a simple DynamoDB item. The actual skills is written in Python 3 and running in AWS Lambda.

Challenges I ran into

Alexa isn't ready for numbers yet! It's tricky to handle decimals, for example.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

It helped me cooking tonight!

What's next for Cook Recap

Ability to save recipes and eventually being able to scrap the ingredients from recipes on the top cooking sites.

Built With

• aws-lambda
• dynamodb
• python