There might be a Captain’s privilege with that, especially since Captains quarters are often larger than crewman’s. But it could also just be a personal preference. Sisko was raised in a restaurant and takes pride in his cooking. He also got miffed at Kassidy because she burned some of his peppers he said he spent months trying to grow. So obviously there are space limitations on being able to cultivate real food. Miles and Keiko sit down to home cooked meals as well, and there was a bit in S2 of TNG where Riker, Polaski, Worf and I think someone else make scrambled eggs in their quarters on a griddle.
I’m pretty fussy with the food that I like, and sometimes there are times when I choose to cook certain meals myself, rather than have a friend or partner do it. It’s not that what they’d make would be bad, but it certainly wouldn’t be the same.
I imagine it’s similar to my current relationship to programming software. I’m a more proficient programmer than the vast majority of people (a fact that is easy to forget when hanging out in techy spaces online), but I rarely code my own software. I mostly use open-source stuff nowadays, so I occasionally tinker to make changes, or add minor features, but most software I regularly use is far too large and complex for me to make much sense of. I imagine that programming in new replicator recipes would require a high level of food chemistry and technical expertise.
There might be a Captain’s privilege with that, especially since Captains quarters are often larger than crewman’s. But it could also just be a personal preference. Sisko was raised in a restaurant and takes pride in his cooking. He also got miffed at Kassidy because she burned some of his peppers he said he spent months trying to grow. So obviously there are space limitations on being able to cultivate real food. Miles and Keiko sit down to home cooked meals as well, and there was a bit in S2 of TNG where Riker, Polaski, Worf and I think someone else make scrambled eggs in their quarters on a griddle.
I’m pretty fussy with the food that I like, and sometimes there are times when I choose to cook certain meals myself, rather than have a friend or partner do it. It’s not that what they’d make would be bad, but it certainly wouldn’t be the same.
I imagine it’s similar to my current relationship to programming software. I’m a more proficient programmer than the vast majority of people (a fact that is easy to forget when hanging out in techy spaces online), but I rarely code my own software. I mostly use open-source stuff nowadays, so I occasionally tinker to make changes, or add minor features, but most software I regularly use is far too large and complex for me to make much sense of. I imagine that programming in new replicator recipes would require a high level of food chemistry and technical expertise.