Chopped 420 Taps Into Cannabis Culinary Trend for Discovery+

The streaming service aims at younger, broader audience with weed-centric series

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Fans of the Food Network’s long-running competition show, Chopped, are familiar with its celebrity story arcs. Martha Stewart will drop in for a handful of episodes this month and the show will offer cross-over kitchen battles—can anyone beat Bobby Flay? 

But an upcoming, limited-run series on the new Discovery+ streaming service aims to blow audiences away with a cannabis-spiked version of the linear TV favorite. Chopped 420 premieres, fittingly, on April 20.

Actor and comedian Ron Funches hosts the five hour-long episodes of Chopped 420 alongside a judging panel that will include drag performer and cannabis activist Laganja Estranja, comedian Tacarra Williams and chefs Esther Choi, Sam Talbot and Luke Reyes.

Following the established Chopped format, four chefs will compete in appetizer, entrée and dessert rounds, working with a mystery basket of ingredients to try to win a $10,000 cash prize.

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