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The holiday cooking season is here, and if you happen to use a Windows 8.1 laptop or tablet, the MSN Food & Drink app serves as a recipe database, meal planner, shopping-list generator and cooking tutor. The app is free from the online Windows Store if it is not already installed on your system.
For those who like to cook with the computer in the kitchen, the app features hundreds of recipes in easy-to-read type arranged on step-by-step screens that can be advanced by tapping arrow keys in the screen or keyboard. If you would rather keep sticky fingers off the hardware, though, MSN Food & Drink also includes a hands-free mode that turns the device’s webcam into a basic motion sensor.
To use the hands-free feature, open a recipe from the Food & Drink app and select the Hands-Free Mode icon at the bottom of the screen.
When you have completed the steps on the first recipe screen, move to the next screen by waving your hand in front of the webcam; you can go back a step by waving your hand in the other direction.