Tabasco has decided to launch a scorpion-pepper hot sauce that's a whopping 20 times hotter than its original bottle.
The company's Scorpion Sauce,made with the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper, debuts Wednesday and is being sold only on Tabasco's website or on Avery Island, Louisiana, home to the McIlhenny Company that has been making Tabasco there since the 1860s!
The company says in a news release that this new, liquid fire is "not for the weary."
To put the intensity into sciencey-perspective: While the regular Tabasco peppers clock in at 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville Units, a scorpion pepper can run up to roughly 2 million, giving it the status of the world's second-hottest pepper (it was overthrown in 2013 only by the Carolina Reaper, which can hit as high as 2.2 million Scoville Units).
A reviewer of another scorpion sauce on the market, Dave's Gourmet Scorpion Pepper Sauce, wrote that the burning residue stayed on his tongue for 10 minutes.
Our tongues are burning and eyes are tearing already... but we're willing to give it a try. We think...
The brave-hearted can order their bottle of Scorpion sauce here.