I was digging around on a9 today, looking for something I read in a copy of tbt* at the doctor’s office.
There’s a gentleman who is selling what is labeled at the World’s Hottest sauce, rated at an ungodly sixteen million SHU [*].
Nine hundred ninety nine bottles of this hell-inducing material was created, and may be picked up for a rather pricy penny - about $200 a bottle. However, if you used it right… you’d never need another bottle of hot sauce in your life.
Unless, that is, you’re one of those freaks that love spicy pepper sauce on and in everything.
Including your morning Pepsi.
Although… I could see this being used for some pretty mean things.
Given how little one can use and still have far too much in something, just putting a very tiny amount of it in a four ounce spray bottle and diluting it with water could make a very easy to disguise weapon. Putting a very small amount in one of those oversized Super Soakers could lead to some very… painful water gun fights.
Since capsaicin[*] tends to make your nerve endings think that something painful is happening there, it can be rather dangerous. In fact, they warn you of this when you attempt to order it.
I’d do many things for a bottle of this, though. My family claims to love spicy things. This’d prove that once and for all.
At this time, I’d like to tip my hat to Roland Piquepaille - his blog was the first one that turned up on my a9 search for “16 Million Reserve” and was very informative. I learned something today while reading there: The Scoville scale. ![]()
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