I have a feeling this is something that is unique to my game...again.
I play on an ipad 2 ios 5.1
The game is version 1.5. I have already deleted and reinstalled, force closed and restarted etc.
So the problem:
I open the recipe tab for the food replicator machine and initially 3 recipes flash and then the star pizza disappears leaving this :
I think i was able to cook the recipe only once since the appliance came out.