The United States of America are not the only place you can find fiery food awards. One of our writers, Woody, is the owner and proprietor of Fire Foods UK, a U.K.-based fiery foods business. He sent us this link to their own version of their Scoville awards, which will go worldwide in 2010. Check out this article from the Chile Foundry:

Fire Foods Amateur Scoville Awards 2009 — Results

Sat­urday night I spent tast­ing hot sauces, chut­neys, chilli chocol­ate and chilli vodka! No it was not a typ­ical night at home with Hot Juan, but I was a judge at the Fire Foods Ama­teur Scov­ille Awards 2009.

The Event took place in a small pub in Cove, near Farn­bor­ough, Hamp­shire. The even­ing star­ted with an informal chat amongst the attendees, while Darth Naga was per­suaded to eat one of Fire Foods new infin­ity chil­lies — you have to wait for the video from Darth to see what happened to him.

While Darth was still recov­er­ing, Woody and I sat at a small table and worked our way through a col­lec­tion of 14 home made hot sauces. After we had smelt and tasted each sauce we passed them on to be tasted by the group of com­pet­it­ors who had attended.

We tasted each sauce and ranked them for heat and fla­vour out of 10, while mak­ing notes that would help us select the winner.

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