Every year, as part of its Fiery Food Challenge, Chile Pepper magazine names the Top Ten Hottest Food Products.
This year’s winners:
Best overall: Sweet & Smokey Meat Moppin’ Sauce from Cowboy BBQ, Live Oak, Calif.
Best new food product: Left Wing Sauce from Peppers of Key West, Key West, Fla.
Best new food product/cook-off division: Ay! Chihuahua Chipotle Pecan Rub from Tres Gringas, Arlington.
Best salsa/general: Caboom! Olive and Roasted Garlic Gourmet Salsa from CaJohn’s Fiery Food Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Best BBQ sauce/smoked: Shyster Sauce from Judicial Flavors, Auburn, Calif.
Best hot sauce/international: Pili-Pili Hot-N-Sweet Sauce from Homeland Distributors, Plano.
Best BBQ sauce/chile specific: Zesty Habanero BBQ Sauce from Bethlehem’s Best Gourmet Sauce, Bethlehem, Ga.
Best condiment/relish: My Sweet Peppers Relish from My Sweet Peppers, Wills Point, Texas.
Best BBQ sauce/alcohol infused: Signature Hot BBQ Sauce from BBQ’N Fools, Long Beach, Calif.
Best condiment/jam: Death Valley Pepper Jelly from Micks Peppourri, Yakima, Wash