Screaming Mi Mi Awards Results
The NYC Hot Sauce Expo is proud to announce the 2015 Screaming Mi Mi Award winners. With hundreds of entries the winners were selected by blind taste test by New Yorks finest and brightest in the culinary industry. The panel consisted of chefs from FOX, CBS and Food Networks, Food Critics from NYC Newspapers, Bloggers, Magazines, Hot Sauce Retailers, Wholesalers and some of NYC’s Top Chefs. The Screaming Mi Mi Awards have been creating a large industry buzz within the Hot Sauce Community. Past winners have received features on TV, magazines, newspapers creating a profile that has lead for their product distributed by wholesalers and national retail outlets.
The Screaming Mi Mi Awards were presented in front of the media and live audience on Saturday April 24th at the 3rd Annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo. This was a year to remember with some amazing highlights. CaJohn’s took the Three-Peat in the Louisiana Style Hot Sauce with their Firehouse Hot Sauce, Defcon Sauces took the first ever sweep in Screaming Mi Mi history collecting 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the Chicken Wing category and Brooklyn newcomer Queen Majesty took 2 Screaming Mi Mi’s in the Jalapeno and All Natural categories. It was a tightly scored competition and the winners are very much deserved.
2015 Screaming Mi Mi Award Winners
Louisiana Style
1st Place
CaJohns – Fire House Hot Sauce
2nd Place
Tropical Island – Ugly Baby Sweet Hot Sauce
3rd Place
Hellfire Hot Sauce – Gourmet
Chipotle
1st Place
CaJohns – Caracara Chipotle
2nd Place
Fire Dragon Chiles – Smokey Dragon Chipotle
3rd Place
Scotty O’ Hotty – Beer Bacon Chipotle
Fruit Based
1st Place
CaJohns – Tiki Bar Hot Sauce
2nd Place
Dirty Dicks – Hot Pepper Sauce
3rd Place
Hot Ass Chilies – Pacific Burn
Fruit Based Hot
1st Place
Angry Goat Pepper Co. – Black Bison
2nd Place
Hellfire Hot Sauce – Blueberry Hell
3rd Place
Chesterville Pepper Company – Anthony Kern’s Burn Out
Jalapeno
1st Place
Queen Majesty – Jalapeno Tequila & Lime
2nd Place
Poor Devil Pepper Co. – Green Gypsy
3rd Place
Red Robot – Thick N’ Spicy
Habanero
1st Place
Red Flag Spicy Foods – Fusebox
2nd Place
Grim Reaper Foods – Maverick
3rd Place
Zombie Cajun – The Antidote
All Natural
1st Place
Queen Majesty – Scotch Bonnet & Ginger Hot Sauce
2nd Place
Grinders – Wimpy
3rd Place
Madison’s – Original Hot Sauce
XXX Hot
1st Place
Hellfire Hot Sauce – Fear This
2nd Place
Volcanic Peppers – Red Reaper
3rd Place
Mad Dog 357 – Reaper Sriracha Sauce
Pepper Blend
1st Place
Lucky Dog Hot Sauce – Brown Label
2nd Place
Tatanka Hot Sauce
3rd Place
Race City Sauce Works – Seven Pepper Sriracha
Best Product 2014
1st Place
Friendly Fire Hot Sauce – Guava & Habanero
2nd Place
Jersey Barnfire – Black Garlic Hot Sauce
3rd Place
Elijah’s XTreme – Ghost Pepper Sauce
Best Label Artwork
1st Place
Grinders – Near Death
2nd Place
Lucky Dog – Dia del Perro
3rd Place
Cully’s – Fire Water
Chicken Wing
1st Place
Defcon Sauces – Defense Condition #2
2nd Place
Defcon Sauces – Defense Condition #1
3rd Place
Defcon Sauces – Cluckwing Orange
Spicy BBQ
1st Place
High Octane Sauce Company – 1100 RPM Sweet & Spicy
2nd Place
Cully’s – Applewood BBQ Sauce
3rd Place
Race City Sauce Works – The Preachers Daughter
Spicy Salsa
1st Place
CaJun Tex – Hickory Smoked Salsa Picante
2nd Place
CaJun Tex – Hickory Smoked Cranbury Salsa
3rd Place
Silverleaf International – Scorpion Salsa
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