The Last Dab: Xperience | Hot Ones Hot Sauce
The Last Dab: Xperience is the current flagship finale sauce in the Hot Ones lineup and the hottest bottle in the entire collection. Made with Pepper X officially the world's hottest pepper as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records — this sauce averages 2,693,000 Scoville units. That's roughly 500 times hotter than a jalapeño. No extract, no tricks. Pure Pepper X in dried, fresh, and natural distillate form, over 91% of the bottle.
The Hot Ones Legacy
The Last Dab lineage began in 2017 when Smokin' Ed Currie the Guinness World Record-holding chilli breeder behind Puckerbutt Pepper Company created the original Last Dab specifically for the show. It's the sauce that sits at position 10 in every challenge: the one that separates the people who made it through Da Bomb from the people who actually finish. The tradition is to dab a little extra at the end hence the name.
The Xperience edition represents the current evolution of that legacy, built from a single-origin Pepper X mash that delivers an intense, lingering full-body burn with a distinctive floral warmth before the heat fully arrives.
What It Actually Tastes Like
Don't let the Scoville number convince you there's no flavour here. The Pepper X pepper has a unique profile slightly fruity with an almost earthy warmth that comes through before the heat takes over. The distillate format means the burn builds progressively rather than hitting instantly, which somehow makes it worse. You'll feel it in your chest, your ears, and places you didn't expect.
Also in The Last Dab Range
- The Last Dab XXX three distinct Pepper X strains
- The Last Dab Apollo the Apollo pepper edition
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Ingredients: Pepper X pepper, distilled vinegar, Pepper X pepper powder, Pepper X pepper distillate.
148ml | Made by Hot Ones / Heatonist