I bet you can program it in.
But can the replicator be able to mimic day old leftover pizza straight from the fridge…let alone microwaved day old pizza. Can it give you that unmistakable taste of it unevenly heated
Computer, 1 bag of Totino’s pizza rolls - combo flavor - make them molten on the inside and still cold on the outside just like my moms busted microwave would do
Add a bit of diet coke and you have a
healthyhacker diet…Then the computer automatically notifies Troi to remind her of my counseling session for crippling depression.
She misses it as she is too busy explaining the “real” chocolate sundae to her replicator.
When the replicator keeps giving you carob instead of real chocolate:
I highly recommend deep frying those, btw.
Yes, it can.
Replicate yourself a bunch of ice, a cooler, and a fresh stew, and…
The answer to replicator problems is always MORE REPLICATION!
I always knew it could make hot food, but can a replicator create ice?
It’s easy to put energy into a system, but removing it usually takes time.
Why would it remove energy? It doesn’t create liquid water and then freezes it. It creates matter with a certain energy level. Creating ice would probably just cost a minuscule bit less energy than the same amount of liquid water
Just replicate day old stew
Oh… you mean instant.
I guess post scarcity go BRRR, but if I was Chief Engineer and caught some flunky using my precious reactor output to replicate ice there’d be a pointed discussion on thermodynamics
Replicator, replicate me a flunky to sit through the Chief’s lecture again I want piña coladas
This has me wondering about the semantics of potentially replicating a bunch of high capacity batteries.
this is why every replicator has a bucket of sand stored underneath
That’s a good point. Could we set a phaser to “cold?”
What about a stew pot sized heatpump cooker/cooler?
Maybe if we tuned the transporter’s annular confinement beam to match the warp core’s frequency we could slow down the particles in the stew, cooling it appropriately!
A week in the transporter buffer should be roughly equivalent to overnight in the fridge
ahh, I miss Scottie’s transpobuffer hooch
Use the transporter to make smoothies you say? Surely nothing could make anything more finely mixed than a transporter
Of course, I can’t let them know that it is because every day is the same… inside the pattern buffer. 😶
It’s all starting to add up… I mean… no! Let me stay! The real real sucks!
Wishing you’d taken the blue pill aka not watched Star Trek eh…?
I’d rather be woke than happy… wait, wtf am I saying?! YeS I wAnTs To PlAy ThE sPoRtS pLeAsE 🥺 aNd MaKes AlL tHe MoNiEz, YeAh…
On the contrary: I welcome the glory of the buffer. It’s cozy and marginally safe.
Pro: it increases Miles suffering.
Con: Julien is not in it. (See above).
Conclusion: there is a God. (See above again).
there is a
GodKoala.
a replicator can make blood wine but not the subtlety of day old stew? im a bit skeptical.
The subtleties of flavors marrying over time? Doubtful. We’ve seen characters reject the texture/flavor of basic meals, let alone something purposely left to chill and reheat. Maybe by the time of DISCO they’ll have nailed it down.
I suspect a lot of the TNG era issues with flavor/texture coming of replicated food has more to do with the person programing those flavors having no idea what they were doing in the kitchen and just mashing something together. Either because the “person” coming up with the pattern is the computer system; or because the person was some one like Barclay who might be handy with the ship’s systems… but, doesn’t understand the first thing about food and couldn’t cook a ham sandwich.
Or like with alien foods… just simply not understanding what the food is or is supposed to be. Like how you never really see Mediterranean cuisine put garlic and mint together, even though the two are basically ubiquitous in that cuisine. Someone who reads a quick note that those two flavors are common might make the mistake of thinking they’re used together, unless they actually know something about cooking. Maybe that alien culture you just read the cliff notes on has weird taste buds. or maybe they enjoy the dissonant flavoring.
its just chemicals… that they are building at the atomic level!
I was always skeptical of the complaints. i figured theyre either discretionary (replicator not programmed for that variation) or human error cuz people suck.
It’d be like The Fly but with foods mixing, instead of Jeff Goldblum.
I’ve been without a fridge for close to a month. I got a countertop ice maker for next to nothing at Goodwill the next day. Really it’s all I need. I’ve I buy strawberries I just put some ice on them every few hours, and they last a week.
It also doesn’t hurt my city is known for having some of the best tap water on earth.
Oh of course, you meant an electric counter top ice maker. For some reason you said “I don’t have a fridge” and my brain translated that to “I have no electricity and live in a cabin in the forest”… I was eagerly googling how to make home made ice using some fancy old process… Yes, I am quite dumb at times.
Is… Is this a bit?
Nope, this is genuine homegrown fuckery
No no no, the trick is you have to queue and schedule the replication order a day or two in advance. The ensigns on Deck 8 swear it tastes different.
Shit, now I am wondering how a replicator would be able to make decent fried rice… 🤔
Not the replicator’s fried rice
You’re telling me a replicator fried this rice?
Surely a replicator can replicate a bowl of next day stew or friend rice. You’re be able to have it today instead of tomorrow.
Oooh, imagine how good a bowl of next-day soup from the replicator would be the next day!
Actually Kenji from serious eats tested it and fresh rice is just as good, it just had to dry out. Dry was the important part.
https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-vegetable-fried-rice-recipe
Wow, that was a good read! I love his recipe for Detroit deep dish pizza dough.
how could it not?
