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Replicators don't simulate cooking though, they rearrange atoms. It's an entirely different process and I have to imagine that translating between them is more of an art than a science.
Yea, they rearrange atoms but like that's part of my point. It's a highly sophisticated computer made to recreate food. A recipe has exact measurements like "500g of flour, mix with 1.5g yeast, 3.7g salt, 340g water", I would think they would be able to replicate that process
I do think there are some episodes that have the characters fucking around with the replicator to try and get something more personalized to their tastes. So this could play into it a bit.
I know we're debating a fictional tool (I'm here for it) but I'm saying I don't think it replicates "the process" it replicates the end result.
Now that I think about it, it’s odd that the replicators never (or at least infrequently) produce absolute slop. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it essentially a specific form of transporter? Somewhere they must have a supply of whatever the atoms waiting to be combined into “food” are (recycling the ship’s waste??) so that when you say “cherry pie” it knows you need X amount of whatever atoms arranged in whichever format the data instructed. Given that transporters can malfunction, there should be some instances where the replicator grossly malfunctions and instead of an off-tasting slice of pie you get a mutant horror that looks like it crawled out of Seth Brundle’s lab.
In Discovery it's said out loud: it's waste recycled, including shit.
I had a feeling it was, it makes the most sense. An endless supply of organic compounds just speed running the cycle. Sometimes though the mushrooms are just straight out of the bins, not replication. Rinse before your eat.