Blue Flame Award
The Blue Flame Award recognizes the results of those efforts and the foresight of the companies whose aggressive policies bring new foodservice natural gas appliances and products to the marketplace.
This award is presented every two years at the NAFEM Show for a new or improved gas foodservice appliance or technology.
Apply for the 2027 Blue Flame Product of the Year Award.
Applications are due by 12/14/2026
Blue Flame Award
The Blue Flame Award recognizes the results of those efforts and the foresight of the companies whose aggressive policies bring new foodservice natural gas appliances and products to the marketplace.
This award is presented every two years at the NAFEM Show for a new or improved gas foodservice appliance or technology.
Apply for the 2027 Blue Flame Product of the Year Award. Applications are due by 12/14/2026
2025 Blue flame
Award Winner:
Cleveland SGL40T1
Tilting Skillet
Cleveland’s Gas Tilting Skillet goes to the next level of technology with high efficiency and speedy recovery, offering state of the art controls with digital time and temperature display with the ability to use a product temperature probe.
2024 Blue flame
Award Winner:
Cleveland KGL Series Gas Floor Model Kettles
The 40-gallon model is rated at 160,000 BTU’s while the 60-, 80- and 100-gallon models are rated at 190,000 BTU’s. The KGL series has a patented “turbo charged” gas heating design.
2023 Blue flame
Award Winner:
sterling boilerless
gas powered steamer
The Sterling Boilerless Steamer is a powerful 60,000 BTU unit for high production batch cooking. The unit has a proprietary heat transfer design that maximizes the transfer of heat from the IR powered burner to steam with limited space available.
2022 Blue Flame
Award Winner:
Rational iCombi Pro Combi Oven
The RATIONAL iCombi® Pro combi oven offers higher productivity, shorter cooking times, and lower energy consumption while still providing outstanding results.
2021 Blue Flame
Award Winner:
Garland High-Performance XHP Broiler
2025 Blue flame
Award Winner:
Cleveland SGL40T1
Tilting Skillet
Cleveland’s Gas Tilting Skillet goes to the next level of technology with high efficiency and speedy recovery, offering state of the art controls with digital time and temperature display with the ability to use a product temperature probe.
2024 Blue flame
Award Winner:
Cleveland KGL Series Gas Floor Model Kettles
2023 Blue flame
Award Winner:
sterling boilerless
gas powered steamer
The Sterling Boilerless Steamer is a powerful 60,000 BTU unit for high production batch cooking. The unit has a proprietary heat transfer design that maximizes the transfer of heat from the IR powered burner to steam with limited space available.
2022 Blue Flame
Award Winner:
Rational iCombi Pro
Combi Oven
The RATIONAL iCombi® Pro combi oven offers higher productivity, shorter cooking times, and lower energy consumption while still providing outstanding results.
2021 Blue Flame
Award Winner:
Garland High-Performance XHP Broiler
The Garland XHP – Extra High-Performance broiler is revolutionizing the industry by using high power but low energy consumption. A chef is able to prepare food (meat, fish, or vegetables) faster using as much as 50% less natural gas than a standard Charbroiler.