why oh why do i have to be the first nerd to answer
okay its been years since ive been up to date with me trek knowledge but to my thinking you could infact either ask for the ingredents yourself and do the cooking or you could get it to make a cooked steak i belive it would have pre set styles ie: rare, medium, well done so you would just say "steak, well-done" and you would be greated with what the computer belived would be the "perfect" well done steak if you put in extra info like, meduim rare, marinated in garlic for x hours then thats what it would give you
sorta like typing html code, you can make it show a word in a basic font and a basic size, but if you wanted anything diffrent you would need to add in extra requests
But would it be, like in HTML, the same commands got you the EXACT same steak? Eg, say for example the replicator's idea of a perfect steak had marbling (since some people like that..) would every steak you ordered with the same commands include the exact same marbling pattern?
If it does then the steak would always have the same taste/cut etc.
I believed they covered this in an episode relating to the computer and it's information relating to a cup of tea and how it's a bit shit.
"...patterns are stored in memory at the molecular level" according to wikipedia. So, really, it would depend on what the replicator has as the base model s Fezz rightly pointed out. Another article claims that single bit errors in the transmutation/molecular reformation of the food would cause a slight change in flavour but not to the nutritional value or the look of the steak.
So they were saying you could get a different flavour from different steaks? or would the differences be so small you couldn't detect them? (eg if I have a 1 litre milk shake, I doubt I could detect one extra crystal of salt in it, which would represent thousands to millions of molecular errors.)
Well yeah, essentially they're saying because the 'pattern' for steak isn't mapped on a quantum level the slight molecular changes would provide slightly different flavours. Depends how big the molecular fuck ups are I think to the flavours you get. You get simmilar things happening in chemistry when you alter some chemicals slightly you get different effects, so it's not too far out of the imagination. For example if you get the chemical set up for pepermint backwards you get licorice.
Mike Occuda (technical advisor of TNG, etc) published a book a decade ago explaining the answers. Not that I can remember, but maybe there's a pdf you can download.
What's more concerning, the fact that you may have to eat the exact same steak over & over again, or the fact that the Enterprise draws a lot of it's replicator proteins, from the waste created on-board?
Yes, that means your steak is the poo you did yesterday..... which was probably the steak you ate the night before....
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okay its been years since ive been up to date with me trek knowledge
but to my thinking you could infact either ask for the ingredents yourself and do the cooking
or you could get it to make a cooked steak
i belive it would have pre set styles
ie: rare, medium, well done
so you would just say
"steak, well-done"
and you would be greated with what the computer belived would be the "perfect" well done steak
if you put in extra info like, meduim rare, marinated in garlic for x hours then thats what it would give you
sorta like typing html code, you can make it show a word in a basic font and a basic size, but if you wanted anything diffrent you would need to add in extra requests
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If it does then the steak would always have the same taste/cut etc.
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"...patterns are stored in memory at the molecular level" according to wikipedia. So, really, it would depend on what the replicator has as the base model s Fezz rightly pointed out. Another article claims that single bit errors in the transmutation/molecular reformation of the food would cause a slight change in flavour but not to the nutritional value or the look of the steak.
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Yes, that means your steak is the poo you did yesterday..... which was probably the steak you ate the night before....
*eww*
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