MeatHeads Gone Hunting Pack
Five 100g pouches — the four-meat set plus Game On for venison and duck. From a Hobsonville maker, couriered anywhere in Auckland.
Gone Hunting
$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 the One That Matters
This is the standard four-protein set with a game blend added, and the game blend is the reason to choose this pack over the smaller one:
Game On — the addition
For venison, duck and other wild meat. This is what separates this pack from the Start Up Pack, and if you do not cook game there is no reason to pay for it.
Porktopia, Blazin' Grazin, Rambo, Bok Boken
Pork, beef, lamb and chicken — the same four blends as the smaller pack. In a hunting household these do the everyday cooking while the game blend does the freezer.
Why a game blend is a separate thing
Wild meat is leaner and stronger-tasting than farmed, and older animals more so. A blend aimed at it is doing real work rather than adding a flavour on top of one that was already there.
What it does not cover
No fish blend, no vegetable blend, no Tex-Mex. If you fish as well as hunt, the Gone Fishing and Fish 'n Chips packs are the ones to compare against this.
Five pouches is 500g
Which is a real quantity. Worth thinking about against how much meat you will actually put through it — see the section below, because a hunter's answer to that is different from most people's.
Seasoning a Freezer's Worth
Anyone processing an animal is dealing with a quantity problem nobody else on this site has. A few things change when it is twenty kilograms rather than a steak:
Portion it the way you will cook it, first.
Steaks, stir-fry strips, braising chunks, mince. Decide the format before you decide the seasoning — a bag of unidentified frozen venison is a bag you will not use.
Season some, leave most of it plain.
Plain meat can become anything later; seasoned meat has already had one decision made for it. Season what you know you will cook in the next few weeks and freeze the rest unseasoned.
Do not use a whole pouch on a freezer load.
It is tempting and it is usually a mistake. Tastes change over a year, and so does what you feel like cooking.
If you do season before freezing, use less.
Salt keeps working in the freezer and through the thaw, so meat seasoned and then frozen for months comes out saltier than the same meat seasoned and cooked the same day.
Label everything with the cut, the date and whether it is seasoned.
A marker on the bag. In eight months you will not remember, and unseasoned meat that gets seasoned again is the most common way a good animal is wasted.
Season the rest at the point of cooking.
Thawed, patted dry, then seasoned. That is where a rub does its best work anyway, on a dry surface with heat coming.
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 is where a set stops living in a cupboard and starts needing somewhere of its own:
- 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.
For a household that actually cooks game, the fifth pouch is the whole reason this pack exists — and if you do not cook game, the four-pouch pack covers the same ground for less. Be honest about which of those you are.
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 four-pouch pack.
The only difference is the game blend. If you do not cook venison or duck, the smaller pack covers the same four meats.
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Frequently Asked Questions: The Gone Hunting Pack
What is in the Gone Hunting Pack?
Five 100g pouches: Porktopia for pork, Blazin' Grazin for beef, Rambo for lamb, Bok Boken for chicken, and Game On for venison, duck and other wild meat. Five hundred grams of seasoning in total.
How is it different from the Start Up Pack?
One pouch: Game On. Everything else is the same four blends. If you do not cook game, the smaller pack covers identical ground.
Is the pack cheaper than buying five pouches separately?
The comparison further up this page works it out live from this listing and a single-pouch listing, so it reflects today's prices. A pack only saves you money on the pouches you would have bought anyway.
Should I season game before freezing it?
Mostly no. Freeze the bulk of it plain and season at the point of cooking — plain meat can become anything later, and tastes change over the months a freezer load takes to get through. If you do season before freezing, use less than usual, because salt keeps working through the freeze and the thaw and the meat comes out saltier than it went in.
Why does game need its own blend?
Wild meat is leaner and has a stronger flavour than farmed meat, and older animals more so. A blend aimed at game is working with that rather than sitting on top of a milder meat.
Is this a good present for a hunter?
It is the pack built for one, and a boxed set is a better object to give than loose pouches. Worth checking whether they already have a shelf of rubs first — most people who hunt regularly do.
What is not in it?
No fish blend, no vegetable blend and no Tex-Mex blend. If you fish as well, compare this against the Gone Fishing and Fish 'n Chips packs.
How should I store five pouches?
Together, labelled, sealed, cool and dry, away from the stove. Press the air out and clear powder from each zip so it closes properly, and open one at a time rather than five at once.
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.