​Brace Yourself For A New Hot Sauce That’ll Blow Your Socks Off

While "The Last Dab" may sound like a military memorial for Paul Pogba, it is something even more sinister than that. It's a hot sauce or, at least theoretically, a sauce that you might put on your food.

When you buy a hot sauce, you want it to be, well, hot. Just how hot is something that comes down to personal taste but, suffice to say, The Last Dab might be pushing the boundaries of even the most wax-tongued of chilli fiends.

This sauce takes advantage of a new pepper, the Pepper X, which tops out at 3.18m on the Scoville Scale.

For the uninitiated, the Scoville unit is a measure of heat, running from the humble bell pepper at zero Scovilles to tear gas at around 500,000 Scovilles.

The previous incumbent at the top of the chilli tree was the Dragon's Breath pepper at a humble 2.4m Scoville units and the Pepper X is a third hotter than that, clocking in at roughly six times the heat of pepper spray.

If you think that something as hot as that is the sort of thing you might want to put into your mouth, then read on. You're in luck.

The Heatonist and Pepper X creator Ed Currie have come together to create The Last Dab. There are hints of ginger and mustard about the sauce, but realistically, nobody is here for the ginger and mustard. The chillies are monstrous and the internet is full of people who have eaten them.

Chilli

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"I got one of the 1,000 bottles... It's really hot," teased one Redditor. Pushed further, the commenter clarified: "Yes it's the hottest sauce I've eaten.

"I feel like once you clear 100k and work your way into the millions, it doesn't get more painful it just keeps burning longer," wrote one commenter.

One Redditor was the voice of reason, writing: "Jesus... Do you have a bidet that shoots milk?"

Another sensible soul shared, "I have been sprayed in the face with 2.5 mil pepper spray. Existentially painful. You could not pay me to put something like that in my mouth."

We're on your side, buddy.

The sauce was initially sold in a run of a thousand bottles, which sold out in three minutes. So perhaps we should leave the last word to the most sensible Redditor of all.

They said: "Should've put it on eBay or saved it. It's selling for $150 (£110) now and I wouldn't be surprised if a bottle from the first 1,000 sold had even more value in the future."

Probably better than eating it, for sure.

Topics: Food

Michael Minay

Mike Minay is a trending journalist at LADbible. He’s co-ordinated interviews with some of the big names from the world of news and sport including ITV’s Robert Peston, Sky Sports’ Jeff Stelling and darts champion Michael van Gerwen. His reporting days began on University radio in Birmingham, before moving to BBC Sport Online – creating content for large events such as Wimbledon and the FA Cup final. Mike still commentates on Football League matches at the weekend. A Manchester LAD at heart.

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