[Also free food out of the replicators definitely makes any trial and error work way more viable, no expensive ingredients going to waste even if you manage to make something truly inedible.]

You have to pay for the upgrades, yeah, but just the one time. The salmon, [and here, he points to those onigiri,] is something I had to pay for, but now I can make it whenever I want.

[Truly strange little contraptions, but hardly something worth complaining about.]