National Chilli Awards 2009 - the finals!
It was a fantastic finals of the National Chilli Awards and a massive thanks to our judges, Darth Naga, Dany Lamote and Karl from Scorchio. They did a fantastic job sampling 70 different chilli products - they got through a lot of milk and tissues - but they showed us what wonderful products we are now making in this country, easily equalling the USA.
You can find a video of the competition after the results listed below. Many thanks to The Chile Foundry for that.
The winners of the categories are:
Best chilli jam - Scorchio's Nitro Naga Jam
Best chilli pickle/chutney - The Garlic Farm's Raging Ape
Best imported chilli product - Just Trading Scotland for Eswatini Kitchen's Kumquat Atchar
Best chilli drink - Barlogic's Passionfruit and Chilli Martini (barlogic@hotmail.com)
Best chilli product (non-sauce) - Mr Vikki's King Naga
Best hot chilli sauce - Gaby's Hot Stuff Original
Best extreme chilli sauce - Chillipepperpete's Dragon's Blood
Best product name - Chillipepperpete's Satan's Shit
Best in show (from the winners of the categories) - Mr Vikki's King Naga
And the judges were ...
Judging took place at the Fiery Foods UK Festival at Victoria Gardens Brighton on Saturday September 19th at 2pm. Believe me, there were tears!!
The judges for this year's awards were:
Darth Naga from The Chile Foundry
Darth Naga is the UK's foremost taster of all things incredibly hot. You can catch him on YouTube inside brighton hotels as he voluntarily inflicts pain upon himself in the name of ... what? Normal people only do it once but Darth Naga does it again... and again... and again. Now you can catch him live and dangerous at the Fiery Foods UK Festival in Brighton on September 19-20. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Karl from Scorchio
Karl is one half of Scorchio, one of the UK's foremost online chilli stores which offers all the top international chilli products as well as many of our own homegrown chilli sauces. If Scorchio ain't got it, then it ain't good enough!
Dany Lamote from Hotel California in Baja California, Mexico
Dany is a leading light in Mexican fusion cooking, taking his inspiration from the many places he has lived in, being Belgian by birth but spending most of his adult life in the Americas. In fact so global is he, his mum even lives in Brighton! Catch him on our cookery stage as he shows us what to do with many of the chillis which can be found at the Fiery Foods UK Festival this September. If we're lucky, he may even bring over some of his special homemade tequila!
And finally ...you!
The public (yes, that means you) had the vote on the Best Product Name - check out the video for how it was all scientifically proven.
