Cannabis Cooking Inspiration: 'Cooked With Cannabis' on Netflix

There’s much more to cannabis cuisine than just whipping up cannabutter and baking your favorite THC-infused edible brownie treat.

You’re ready, willing, and able to expand your boundaries with cannabis cooking, but maybe you need a little inspiration. If that’s the case, you’ll want to stay in and binge-watch Netflix’s latest marijuana-themed series, “Cooked with Cannabis,” which debuted on the streaming service on April 20, 2020–4/20, naturally!

Co-hosted by hip hop star Kelis (“Milkshake”), who is also a trained chef, cookbook author, and cannabis enthusiast, and chef-cum-cannabis cuisine expert, Leather Storrs, “Cooked with Cannabis” takes the concept of the cooking competition, grinds it up, and adds a copious dose of THC to the food, which runs the gamut from gut-busting burgers to molecular gastronomy to wedding cakes, depending on each episode’s theme.

With just six episodes to indulge in, and each installment clocking in at just over the 30-minute mark, “Cooked with Cannabis” won’t test the attention span of its target audience (ie, cannabis users), but the way the producers mix up the episodes’ themes really keeps the concept fresh and challenges the contestants in various ways. The episode themes include: Grilled Backyard BBQ, Global Eats, “I Do” Cannabis (a weed wedding episode!), Futurist Food, High Holidays, and Comfort Food to High Cuisine, and the contestants are encouraged to use their own THC infusions and various provided THC and CBD products to get the hosts and celebrity tasters high as hell while sampling the three courses: an app, an entree, and a dessert. In addition to cooking really tasty food, the competing chefs must also explain how and why they’re using THC vs CBD at each stage, and speak to what the dosages are in each course as well.

One of the best things about the kitchen action on “Cooked with Cannabis” is the unfiltered takes from the hosts, guest, and competitors—this show is definitely Not Safe For Work (NSFW) because of the language being thrown around. A chef will drop a utensil and scream “f*ck!”; celebrity guest tasters break out in giggles while they’re hanging out at the “Best Buds” table discussing the mealworm crackers they just reluctantly ate; the conversation between the co-hosts will go right off the rails—especially right before the dessert round when the first two courses are kicking in. If your favorite Food Network stars consumed cannabis and let the cameras roll after hours, what you’d get is something like “Cooked with Cannabis.”

If you want to take your cannabis cooking to the next level and you’re looking for inspiration, you could do a lot worse than stream an episode of “Cooked with Cannabis” to find your marijuana muse. Get “Cooked” already!