Later seasons of Voyager tried to make a joke out of "Janeway is bad at cooking" because she couldn't get the replicator to produce her grandmother's recipes. But since the replicator is just a computer interpreting code, what this means is that Janeway was bad at *programming.*
Which implies that: 1/
1. In the future, there will be an entire subgenre of cooking that is actually coding. You can be a food chef or a code chef.
2. AI is already learning how to write code.
3. Ergo, in the future, when we order food from a replicator, we will have to specify "Pizza, no glue." 2/2
@danialexis Depends on *how* you program the replicator. Do you use a programming language? Do you feed the computer a standard recipe? Do you cook it yourself and have the computer scan the result, and if so, do you have to use replicated ingredients?
Specifics are left vague for a couple of reasons: the replicator is a metaphor for current methods of food shortcuts: MREs, canned foods, frozen foods, etc, and the replicator is whatever the story needs it to be.
@b4cks4w That was the synthesizer, not the replicator :) Whole different process. There were kitchens and cooks on that Enterprise as well. @danialexis