A new kind of methamphetamine lab is taking a startling spike in some Alabama counties.

Talladega County Violent Crime Task Force Commander, Jason Warren, says, "We first heard about it in March of last year, these one pot cooks, but we saw our first one last November. Once we saw our first one, it's snow balled from there."

Warren says despite monitoring cold medicine sales, criminals are still able to make the highly addictive drug.

"They call it "shake and bake", it's easy to do and it's easy to conceal and it's more dangerous than the other process and it's defiantly more explosive."

So far this year, Talladega County has seized more than triple the amount of labs as last year.

"Last year we saw 20 total, and this year we've already seen 122."

Even though there has been a major increase in meth activity, Warren says it's not just in Talladega County.

Warren adds, "We've seen it in north Alabama, there has been an explosion in Marshall, Etowah County, Cherokee, Clay, everyone is experiencing it."

Warren says a criminal who's convicted of producing meth faces a 10 to 20 year jail sentence.