Netflix’s New Show Has Professional Chefs Cooking 3-Course Meals With Cannabis

A new show is hitting Netflix next month that you’ll definitely want to add to your queue. Cooked with Cannabis is a cooking competition series and the contestants are challenged to make masterful dishes made with cannabis-infused ingredients. It couldn’t have come at a better time, since millions more self-sequestered viewers are finding themselves forced to do more home cooking, while looking for ways to de-stress.

What makes it even better is that it will be hosted by Kelis, the singer of everyone’s guilty pleasure anthem “Milkshake” (and cookbook author). She’ll be hosting alongside Leather Storrs, a chef from Portland, Oregon.

The series, which is only a six-episode season at the moment, according to Food & Wine, will function like most other cooking competitions. Three professional chefs will go head-to-head while coming up with a three-course meal to wow the judges. Each meal will have a different theme it must follow, such as world cuisine or futurist food, but their dishes have to include cannabis.

Each meal will then be judged by Kelis, Leather, and a guest judge. Some of the guest judges include Ricki Lake and comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub, so the season is bound to be star-studded. Once the winning cook is decided, that chef will win a $10,000 cash prize.

In an interview with Food & Wine, Leather explained one of his favorite parts of this show’s concept is the way that cannabis is used as a sophisticated ingredient. “Many of the chefs used the plant in non-psychoactive ways: as a flavoring, as a puree in fresh tortillas, or blended into a flour,” he told Food & Wine: “This is a show for food people, for stoners and for folks that are curious about both.”

Cooked with Cannabis will hit Netflix on April 20, of course.

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