MeatHeads Gone Fishing Pack
Five 100g pouches — the four-meat set plus Donkey for fish and seafood. From a Hobsonville maker, couriered anywhere in Auckland.
Gone Fishing
$41.80
$8.36 per pouch · 5 × 100g
Sold by MeatHeads NZ
Price and availability update live from the listing. The description above is the seller's own wording, reproduced as written and not endorsed or verified by DoorToShop. Any statement in it about ingredients, allergens or what the blend is free of belongs to the maker — the ingredient and allergen statement printed on the pack is the one that counts.
The Four, Plus a Fish Blend
The standard four-protein set with a seafood blend added. The fifth pouch behaves quite differently from the other four in practice:
Donkey — the addition
For fish and seafood: the seller names salmon, snapper and shellfish. This is the pouch that makes this pack different from the Start Up Pack.
It will outlast the others
Fish takes roughly half the seasoning of meat, and cooks in minutes rather than hours. In most households the fish pouch is still half full when the beef one has gone.
Porktopia, Blazin' Grazin, Rambo, Bok Boken
Pork, beef, lamb and chicken. The same four as the smaller pack, and the ones that will actually empty.
Good for a boat, with a caveat
A pack that lives on a boat needs somewhere dry. Sea air and foil pouches are not a happy combination — decant what you need into a small tin rather than taking the pouches out.
What it does not cover
No game blend, no vegetable blend, no Tex-Mex. The Fish 'n Chips pack adds the vegetable blend to this same line-up if you want chips seasoned as well as the fish.
Seasoning a Fresh Catch
Fish that comes home whole is a different job from fillets in a tray, and the seasoning is the last step rather than the first:
Cold and clean comes first, long before seasoning.
Fish deteriorates faster than any other protein. Into ice as soon as possible, gutted early, kept cold all the way home. No seasoning rescues a fish that got warm.
Dry it thoroughly before anything else.
Inside the cavity as well if it is whole. This matters more with fish than anything — a wet surface steams, sticks and tears.
Score a whole fish through to the bone.
Two or three diagonal cuts on each side. It lets heat into the thickest part so the fish cooks evenly, and gives the seasoning somewhere to sit other than the skin.
Season into the cuts and the cavity, lightly outside.
Tip the rub into a bowl first. Fish takes about half what meat does, and the cavity and the scored cuts are where it does the most good.
Season minutes before cooking, not ahead.
Salt draws moisture straight out of a fillet, and there is very little fillet to draw from. Fifteen minutes is plenty; hours is a cure.
Cook it hot, and leave it alone.
A hot grill or pan, and no poking. Fish releases itself when a crust has formed — a fillet that will not turn is not ready to be turned.
Keep the container away from the raw meat. Tip what you need into a bowl and season from that, rather than dipping a hand that has touched raw meat back into the pouch or tin. Anything that goes back in the container has been in contact with raw protein and will sit there until the next time you cook. Wash hands, boards and tongs between raw and cooked, and never reuse a rub that has touched raw meat as a finishing seasoning.
General technique, not instructions for a particular product. Where the packaging gives its own directions, follow those.
Living With Five Open Pouches
Five pouches wants a home, and the fish blend in particular wants a dry one:
- Keep them together and keep them labelled. Several pouches of brown powder in a drawer are indistinguishable from one another at arm's length, and the printed name is the only thing telling them apart.
- Open one at a time. There is no benefit to having four pouches open at once, and every open pouch is one more taking on moisture.
- Press the air out before resealing. Less air means less moisture. Clear powder out of the zip first or it will not close properly.
- Store them away from the stove. The cupboard above the hob is the most convenient and the worst place in the kitchen for anything dry.
- Use a dry spoon and never dip a wet one. One damp teaspoon does more harm to a pouch than a month on the shelf.
- Tip into a bowl, always. Especially with a pack, where cross-contaminating one pouch means losing a set rather than a single item.
What the Pack Comes To
Bought one pouch at a time at the current single-pouch price, the same 5 pouches would come to $42.35. The pack is $0.55 less — about 1.3%. Whether that is worth it depends entirely on whether you will use all 5 blends; a pack is only a saving on the pouches you would have bought anyway.
Be realistic about the fifth pouch: fish uses roughly half the seasoning of meat, so it lasts far longer than the other four. That is an argument for the pack if you cook fish regularly and an argument against it if you cook fish twice a year.
The per-pouch figure and the comparison above are both worked out from live listed prices — this pack's, and a single 100g pouch's — so they move when either price does.
Where to Buy It
This pack is listed by MeatHeads NZ on DoorToShop, alongside the individual pouches and the other packs. Our guide to meat and BBQ rubs in Auckland covers the whole range, and the wider Groceries category has other local stores you can add to the same order.
Check it against the Fish 'n Chips pack.
That one is this line-up plus a vegetable blend, which is the obvious pairing if you are cooking fish and chips rather than just fish.
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Frequently Asked Questions: The Gone Fishing Pack
What is in the Gone Fishing Pack?
Five 100g pouches: Porktopia for pork, Blazin' Grazin for beef, Rambo for lamb, Bok Boken for chicken, and Donkey for fish and seafood. Five hundred grams of seasoning in total.
How is it different from the Start Up Pack?
One pouch: Donkey, the fish and seafood blend. The other four are the same.
How is it different from the Fish 'n Chips pack?
The Fish 'n Chips pack is this same line-up with a sixth pouch, Spudhead, the vegetable seasoning. If you are cooking chips or roast vegetables alongside the fish, that is the more complete set.
Is the pack cheaper than five single pouches?
The figures further up this page work it out live against a current single-pouch listing. Remember that a pack is only a saving on pouches you would have bought anyway.
How long before cooking should I season fish?
Minutes rather than hours — fifteen at the outside, and just before it goes on the heat is better. Salt draws moisture out of a fillet immediately, and there is very little thickness for it to work on. A fish left seasoned overnight is being cured rather than seasoned.
How much should I use on fish?
Roughly half what you would use on the same weight of meat, and on one side of a fillet rather than both. That is also why the fish pouch in this pack will outlast the other four.
Should I take this on a boat?
Take some of it. Sea air and foil pouches do not get on — decant what you expect to need into a small dry tin rather than carrying the pouches out, and keep the set itself somewhere dry at home.
What is not in it?
No game blend, no vegetable blend and no Tex-Mex blend. Those are Game On, Spudhead and Texican, sold separately and included in other packs.
What is in it, and is it suitable if I avoid something?
The ingredient and allergen statement printed on the pack is the only answer to that, and it is the maker's to give. This listing does not publish an ingredient list, and anything the seller's own description says about what the blend contains or is free of is their statement rather than ours. If you are avoiding an allergen, read the pack and ask the maker if anything is unclear.
How fast is delivery?
Orders are dispatched by the store the next business day and typically arrive within 1 to 3 business days by courier. Enter your address at checkout to confirm delivery coverage for your address.
How much does delivery cost?
The base delivery fee is $5 NZD, with free delivery on orders above $69 in the Auckland region — the exact amount is confirmed at checkout. There is no minimum order value.
What if it arrives damaged?
Photograph it as it arrived and contact the store the same day. Returns are handled by the store that sold the item, and nothing in a store's policy limits your rights under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993.