A BOLTON butchers is inviting people to feel the heat when they sample the town's hottest curry.

Family-run butchers, Barron of Beef in Chorley Old Road, is celebrating National Curry Week with the new sauce, made up of five of the world's hottest chillies.

Owner Paul Barron is challenging customers to try the Mental Oriental sauce, a recipe created by the UK’s only chilli consultant.

Chef Carl Redman invented the sauce which contains five chillies including the seven pot Jonah, naga bhut jolokia, Trinidad moruga scorpion, Carolina reaper and the bubblegum.

The dish measures a massive 8 million Scoville units on the chilli heat scale. That makes it more than 2,000 times hotter than a bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Mr Barron said: “It’s hot enough to make a grown man cry – I didn’t like milk until I tried it.

“We’ve got the Mental Oriental and then Oriental Chilli Chicken, which is basically similar to a rogan josh in spice.

“The Mental Oriental is basically off the chart, it’s extremely hot. Any chef’s aim is to still keep the flavours despite the heat because you find a lot of spicy food loses its flavour, but this sauce definitely tastes good.

“It will be available until Monday but we will be able to get it in to order for anyone wishing to buy it after then.”

Mr Redman, from Preston, who holds the world record for eating the world’s hottest Pot Noodle, added: “The recipe wasn’t modelled off any other curry, you can really taste the difference and it’s a sauce which has taken around 10 years to create.

“I got speaking to Paul through a Facebook butchers page and actually came up to Bolton to buy some rib eye steaks in his shop.

“I brought with me some Mental Oriental chicken for him to try and from then he decided he wanted to offer it to his customers.

“You have to have a bit of a screw loose to eat it but it’s definitely worth the try.”

Heaton resident Danielle Hughes, of Third Avenue, is one of six customers to buy the curry.

She said: “I’m used to spicy food but after tasting that I know I’ll be drinking a few pints of milk to wash it down.

“It has a really gorgeous taste but it also really burns your mouth.”

Our reporter's verdict on Bolton's hottest curry:-

AS someone who likes a bit of spice in their food, I was quite looking forward to tasting Bolton’s hottest curry, writes Sarah Yates.

They warned us that the sauce was probably going to make my eyes water, if not make me cry - but that didn’t put me off.

I read a disclaimer before reluctantly lifting a fork with a piece of chicken, marinated in the sauce and covered in chilli seeds, towards my mouth - the aroma was strong enough to set my eyes off even before I took a bite.

There was no immediate burn, just the usual heat you would expect from a vindaloo and I started to wonder what all the fuss was about - until I started sweating.

The heat quickly started to make my tongue tingle and lips tickle, before the same burning sensation began travelling down my throat.

I still insisted I wouldn’t drink milk to cool the spice down and instead I piled a fork-full of rice into my mouth.

It’s fair to say it’s the hottest curry I’ve ever sampled in my life.