Opening Collections on Nest Hub Max

[MerlinMalone]

I recently bought a Nest Hub Max for my kitchen so I could see recipes while cooking. Having recently had a heart attack I need to change my diet and cook new things. Looking online I found that the only way to show saved recipes, other than searching for them each time and trying to keep the screen alive, was to save them to a Google Collection. Apparently I can then access this on the home hub display. Where can I get this feature on the hub? When I ask it to show my collection or recipes it just says "I don't know, but here are some search results" and it shows some generic search results. I've spent £250 for a glorified photo frame at the moment.

[SmartHomeH-TAGS · Accepted solution]

It looks like Google had a feature called "My Cookbook" to save recipes, but that seems to have been discontinued.

You can say "Hey Google, open Taste.com" to open their website and log in, but I was unable to save recipes.  You might have a different experience with some more investigation.

Casting YouTube cooking videos from your phone is another option.

In hindsight an Amazon Echo Show would have been the FAR superior choice with this feature in mind. 

On my Echo Show 8 I asked to show me some healthy recipes and it gave me some options (though not all were healthy) and you can side scroll for more options from different food websites like the Food Network, Feel Good Foodie, All Recipes, etc..

When you select the recipe you can save it to a 'Cooking Library' that you recall by asking "show cooking library"
On the recipe I chose there was a 4.5 minute video of directions or you can have Alexa read out the directions one step at a time..."Alexa, next step"

If you decide to keep your Nest Hub Max here are a couple of videos showing that you don't always need to use the Wake Words "Hey Google/OK Google"...
Google Quick Phrases: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQiPCAWWun7yUt61T_nElQGw8cV0OaTyS

 

 

[MerlinMalone]

Thanks for the info. I was aware that the cookbook feature had been removed but saw on these help pages that there was a workaround using Collections.

I don't want a video or a read aloud of a recipe, I just want it on the screen until I'm finished with it as I don't think I'd cook at the same rate that the video or readout go at.

I'm not sure what the point of the hub max is, over the nest mini and Chromecast I have on a TV in the kitchen (albeit not next to the cooker). It's quite poor of Google if the workaround is to buy something from Amazon!

The best I have so far is a web page I have to search for but if the screen times out or the page crashes the hub max browser I have to go and search for it again and scroll down to the correct point in the recipe. It's incredibly poorly designed if that's intentional. I'm not sure if I can return it now but it's not great.

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

In regards to the screen timing out there is a setting in the Google Home app > Your Nest Hub Max Device > Settings ⚙️ > Display > disable screen timeout after 5 minutes of inactivity.

[MerlinMalone]

Thanks, I have that setting but it doesn't seem to apply to a web page and often pages seem to crash the browser. Also there's no way to look at a bookmark and the Nest hub doesn't show up as a 'Send to" device on my Pixel 6.