Munch gets his face melted off at macho event

March with his friend Matt Christie, chef and owner of Streets on Carson (where the event was held). It’s modeled after the web series “Hot Ones,” in which celebrities eat a series of progressively hotter wings while answering questions, often to hilarious effect.

Mr. Keebler last month acquired two bottles of “The Last Dab,” a collaboration between Hot Ones, and Ed Currie, a selftaught horticulturalist behind the Carolina Reaper, a pepper previously certified in 2014 by the Guinness Book of World Records with an average Scoville Heat Unit rating of 2.56 million.

“The Last Dab” incorporates Mr. Currie’s latest nightshade of doom, simply dubbed: Pepper X, which is said to clock in at a supernova-esque 3.5 million Scoville Heat Units. Only 1,000 bottles were produced and sold out online in minutes, at $20 a piece.

The 10-sauce lineup started with a mild picante sauce and ultimately ended with The Last Dab. A Facebook page for the event was appropriately illustrated with the face-melting penultimate scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”