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The\u00a0Google Home<\/a> and Amazon Echo are pretty useful devices to have in the kitchen, where clean hands are often at a premium. Until now, though, when you asked Google Home for\u00a0a recipe, it would happily tell you all about it \u2014 but unless you are the president of the U.S. and have the world\u2019s greatest memory<\/a>, you probably forgot more than half of the ingredients by the time it was\u00a0done. Starting today, Google Home doesn\u2019t only have access to five million new recipes, but it also allows you\u00a0to easily step through them and ask questions about them.<\/p>\n That ability to tell your Google Home to start cooking, repeat steps and move on to the next step is pretty useful in and of itself. To power this, Google has indexed recipes from Bon Appetite, The New York Times, Food Network and others.<\/p>\n With this update, though, Google is also making it easier to find recipes to begin with.\u00a0As the Google team probably realized, a device without a screen isn\u2019t the best place to start a search for recipes, so instead of fully relying on the Home, you can now\u00a0use the Google Assistant on your phone or the Google Search app for iOS and Android to find a recipe and then easily send it to the Google Home with the click of a button.<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting that you will also be able to ask the Home questions about your recipe (\u201cHow much\u00a0lard do I need?\u201d) and that it will correct you if, for example, you mistake your baking soda for baking powder in those questions. And while you\u2019re doing all of that, you can still play music and set timers on the Home, too.<\/p>\n This new feature is rolling out now and all users should get it over the course of the coming week.<\/p>\n