Hot Sauce & BBQ Sauce Contest
All products must be made in North Carolina.
Fill out this form to register your Hot Sauce or BBQ Sauce for judging.
Contest Judging Rules:
All entries MUST be produced in North Carolina
All entries MUST have a professionally labeled bottle (ready for retail)
Each entry MUST fill out an entry form with contact information and check the “category” for entry judging
No entry will be accepted if “pepper extracts” are used in the ingredients
If you are a first time contestant to the NC Hot Sauce Contest please mail 1 bottle of sauce and entry form to: NC Hot Sauce Office, 300 Williamsboro St. Oxford NC 27565 by Aug. 15th to qualify for contest judging
SAUCE ENTRY PROCESS:
1. Fill out entry form for each bottled sauce, listing the category that sauce is to be judged
2. Past participants bring 1 sealed bottle per category and completed entry form for each category to the NEW
HOT SAUCE STAGE – LOCATED ON COLLEGE STREET before 11:30 am (look for signs)
3. The top 3 contestants in each category will be called to the HOT SAUCE STAGE - on College Street where the
Champion for each category will be announced and prizes awarded
4. A cash prize of ($500) will be given to each category Champion and medals will be awarded to the 2 runners up
in each category
5. Sauces entered by mail and not present at the day’s festival are limited to 1 entry per contest year
Mail to: NC Hot Sauce Contest, 300 Williamsboro Street, Oxford NC 27565
6. NEW THIS YEAR: Champions will receive a jpg “winner” seal in recognition of the sauce as a 2019 NC Hot Sauce
Contest Winner…. Providing that sauce with much deserved bragging rights as a NC Hot Sauce Winner!To enter the
We will NOT accept ANY product "privately labeled" out side of North Carolina for a named NC Company
or any sauces containing "pepper extract".
Contest Judging Rules:
All entries MUST be produced in North Carolina
All entries MUST have a professionally labeled bottle (ready for retail)
Each entry MUST fill out an entry form with contact information and check the “category” for entry judging
No entry will be accepted if “pepper extracts” are used in the ingredients
If you are a first time contestant to the NC Hot Sauce Contest please mail 1 bottle of sauce and entry form to: NC Hot Sauce Office, 300 Williamsboro St. Oxford NC 27565 by Aug. 15th to qualify for contest judging
SAUCE ENTRY PROCESS:
1. Fill out entry form for each bottled sauce, listing the category that sauce is to be judged
2. Past participants bring 1 sealed bottle per category and completed entry form for each category to the NEW
HOT SAUCE STAGE – LOCATED ON COLLEGE STREET before 11:30 am (look for signs)
3. The top 3 contestants in each category will be called to the HOT SAUCE STAGE - on College Street where the
Champion for each category will be announced and prizes awarded
4. A cash prize of ($500) will be given to each category Champion and medals will be awarded to the 2 runners up
in each category
5. Sauces entered by mail and not present at the day’s festival are limited to 1 entry per contest year
Mail to: NC Hot Sauce Contest, 300 Williamsboro Street, Oxford NC 27565
6. NEW THIS YEAR: Champions will receive a jpg “winner” seal in recognition of the sauce as a 2019 NC Hot Sauce
Contest Winner…. Providing that sauce with much deserved bragging rights as a NC Hot Sauce Winner!To enter the
We will NOT accept ANY product "privately labeled" out side of North Carolina for a named NC Company
or any sauces containing "pepper extract".
Click for Sauce Entry Form
"SMOKIN' HOT PRIZES"
$500 Cash Prize Each
$500 Cash Prize Each
Hot Sauce Categories:NC Mild Hot Sauce
NC Hottest of the Hot Sauce NC Verde Hot Sauce |
BBQ Sauce Categories:
NC Mustard Based Sauce
NC Vinegar Style Sauce NC Tomato Style Sauce NC Mild BBQ Sauce NC Hot BBQ Sauce |
All judging will be done by
Vance-Granville Community College
Culinary Arts Program Head - Chef Jillian Whitlow
Vance-Granville Community College
Culinary Arts Program Head - Chef Jillian Whitlow
