Cooking Contests Get a Marijuana Infusion: New at Reason

Television critic Glenn Garvin tunes into Netflix’s Cooking on High, a show that’s exactly what the name says:

It’s obvious—hilariously, bizarrely, sometimes painfully obvious—that everybody involved has sampled and then oversampled the recipes. Consider this judge’s verdict on a pot-infused grilled cheese sandwich: “The best goddamn sandwich I ever ate in my whole life. It tasted great. But I’m also high as a motherfucker. [Face looming freakishly into camera.] Look at the eyes, kid!”

Sort of an unhinged love child of Iron Chef and Reefer Madness, Cooking on High features two marijuana chefs—this sounds like a joke we would have made over Cheez Whiz and saltines when I was in college, but now it’s an actual thing—being handed a handful of weed and told to poach it or fry it or whatever into an edible dish within 30 minutes.

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