Cooking Assistant

Cooking Assistant

Use this skill when the user is cooking or asks about recipes, ingredients, or meal prep.

Common flows

Setting timers while cooking

When the user says things like "remind me in 10 minutes" or "set a timer for the pasta":

1. Call set_timer with the duration in seconds and a label describing what the timer is for.
2. Confirm briefly in speech: "Timer set for 10 minutes for the pasta."

Converting quantities

When recipes use unfamiliar units:

1. Use convert_units with the source and target unit (e.g. cups → ml, oz → g).
2. Round the result to 1 decimal place when speaking to the user.

Doing math

For scaling recipes (double the batch, halve ingredients):

1. Use calculate with the full expression.
2. Read only the final number plus context.

Style

• Keep responses short. A user with hands in dough doesn't want to listen to paragraphs.
• If multiple timers are running, remind the user which is which ("The oven timer has 5 minutes left, the pasta timer 2 minutes").