Netflix has us high for their ‘first-ever competitive cannabis cooking show’
Netflix is dishing up a new cooking series, Cooking on High, touted as “the first-ever competitive cannabis cooking show.”
If you associate Netflix with popular shows such as Stranger Things, the company is set to alter your consciousness of what it can produce. Meet the show that blends marijuana merriment with creative cooking: Cooking On High.
Inside the ‘first-ever competitive cannabis cooking show’
Expect to meet some unexpected food stars. The host, for example, is Josh Leyva. Before Cooking On High enticed Josh, his claim to fame was with his YouTube video, “Annoying My Girlfriend.” Rock on, bro.
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Netflix’s cannabis cooking show is serving up 12 episodes, each featuring two chefs competing to create a dish containing cannabis to share with the judges. Cooking On High also stars a weed expert, Ngaio Bealum, who is a cannabis journalist/marijuana podcast celebrity.
As the expert, Ngaio gushes about the type of cannabis the contestants need to incorporate into their dishes. Viewers will learn about related concepts such as the art of preparing weed for cooking.
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Cooking On High judges and contestants: Marijuana merriment
Cooking On High rotates 15 judges among the episodes. Rapper Mod Sun, for example, offered up his qualifications in a way that spotlights the tone of the series: “My mom smoked when she was pregnant, and so I’ve been high since before I was born.”
So how high do the judges get? Another judge, Ramon Rivas, wasn’t quite sure whether to blame (or credit) the contestants’ dishes, confessing that he had entered “the shoot kind of high.”
The contestants have more qualifications than just a knowledge of weed when it comes to actual cooking. Le Cordon Bleu graduate Andrea Drummer, for example, was a private cannabis chef for celebrities such as Chelsea Handler before competing on Cooking On High. Luke Reyes is known for appearing on the more well-established cooking show Chopped, and co-owns La Hoja.
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The cannabis-infused dishes, according to Netflix, include tasty treats such as a “ganja-fied grilled cheese” versus a cod cake, “rolled-up reefer eats,” quinoa and black bean puree versus a “stoner soufflé,” and other munch-out marvels, all of which help the judges to achieve the goal, as one stated it, of getting “fall-apart high.”
Bong, bong.