After getting suspicious that they smelled methamphetamine cooking, deputies knocked on the door of the house the odor was coming from. When they asked the man who answered the door what was going on, he immediately replied, "You know what's going on - I'm cooking meth."

According to McMinn County Sheriff's Department, Herman Scott Swafford was arrested after the search revealed a glass bottle with a plastic 20-ounce soda bottle attached to it with red electrical tape and a hot plate with the heat turned on.

The Daily Post-Athenian reports the police found that all the ingredients used to make meth were in the bottle and had been cooking about 45 minutes.

Methamphetamine is a psycho-stimulant drug used primarily for recreational purposes (under the street name crystal meth) that causes euphoria and excitement by acting directly on the brain's reward mechanisms, thus making it highly addictive.

Swafford, 51, of Athens, was charged with starting the process of making methamphetamine and a probation violation warrant.