[gspencley]

Maybe it's because I've worked in food service but if you have "gross cooking hands" you really ought to be washing them before doing anything else. I suppose that a voice-assisted timer could allow you to multi-task so you set it on your way to the sink to wash up, but I don't see how that's a big selling point. At least not for anyone who cooks in a kitchen that I would want to eat food out of. I mean, it's not solving a problem that I've ever heard anyone in a professional kitchen preparing hundreds of plates per service complain about. In that setting "gross kitchen hands" gets called a "potential health code infraction."

[iso8859-1]

Let's say he's cooking lutefisk. It has alkaline, so he'd destroy the Alexa by touching it. But his hands are free of bacteria, so are they really gross? It might not be the health code that applies, but something like the ChemG:

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/chemg/BJNR017180980.html