MeatHeads Start Up Pack
Four 100g pouches — Porktopia, Blazin' Grazin, Rambo and Bok Boken — covering pork, beef, lamb and chicken. From a Hobsonville maker, couriered anywhere in Auckland.
Start Up Pack
$30.80
$7.70 per pouch · 4 × 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.
What Four Blends Covers
This is the four-protein set: one blend each for the meats most people actually cook. Between them they cover the majority of a normal week:
Porktopia — pork
Ribs, roasts, chops and pulled pork. The blend that gets used hardest if you do any low-and-slow cooking, because ribs and shoulder both take a heavy hand.
Blazin' Grazin — beef
Steaks, burgers and brisket. The one to reach for on a weeknight; a steak and a burger between them probably account for more of this pack than anything else.
Rambo — lamb
Roasts, chops and skewers, described by the maker as Mediterranean-leaning. The most seasonal of the four for most households — a Sunday-roast blend rather than a Tuesday one.
Bok Boken — chicken
Chicken and turkey. Likely to be the second-fastest to empty, simply because chicken appears on more dinner tables than anything else on this list.
What it does not cover
No fish blend, no vegetable blend, no Tex-Mex. If you cook seafood or want something for roast vegetables, look at the larger packs or add a single pouch — those blends are sold separately.
Working Out Whether a Pack Is Right
A multi-pack is only a saving on the pouches you would have bought anyway. Four steps to decide honestly, before the numbers further down this page:
Count the blends you would genuinely use.
Not the ones that sound good. If the honest answer is two, two single pouches will almost always cost less than a four-pack, whatever the per-pouch figure says.
Compare per-pouch, not total.
The figure that matters is what each pouch works out at inside the pack against the price of that pouch on its own. This page does that arithmetic live, further down.
Allow for how long they will last.
Four pouches is 400g of seasoning. A dry blend does not spoil quickly, but it fades — a pack that takes three years to get through is not the bargain the per-pouch price suggests.
Separate the gift question from the value question.
As a present, a boxed set of four is a far better object than four loose pouches, and that is worth something the arithmetic does not capture. As a working purchase for yourself, only the numbers matter.
Check both listings are actually in stock.
A pack is no use if you specifically wanted one blend in it and would rather have that pouch today.
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 Four Open Pouches
The practical difference between owning one rub and owning four is storage, and it is worth thinking about before they arrive:
- 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 4 pouches would come to $33.88. The pack is $3.08 less — about 9.1%. Whether that is worth it depends entirely on whether you will use all 4 blends; a pack is only a saving on the pouches you would have bought anyway.
Four blends is the point at which a rack of rubs starts being genuinely useful rather than a novelty — you stop thinking about which one to use and start reaching for the right one. Whether that is worth it over two pouches is entirely a question of how much of the week you cook meat.
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 larger 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.
Compare it against the pouches you would actually buy.
The numbers further up this page divide the pack price by four and set it against the current single-pouch price, live.
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Frequently Asked Questions: The Start Up Pack
What is in the Start Up Pack?
Four 100g pouches: Porktopia for pork, Blazin' Grazin for beef, Rambo for lamb and Bok Boken for chicken. Four hundred grams of seasoning in total, covering the four meats most households cook regularly.
Is the pack cheaper than buying the pouches separately?
Compare the figures further up this page — they are worked out live from this listing and from a single-pouch listing, so they reflect today's prices rather than what was true when the page was written. Bear in mind that a pack is only a saving on the pouches you would have bought anyway.
What is not included?
There is no fish blend, no vegetable blend and no Tex-Mex blend in this pack. Those are Donkey, Spudhead and Texican, sold as single pouches and included in the larger packs.
Is this a good gift?
It is the smallest of the boxed sets, which makes it the easiest one to give without over-committing on someone else's behalf. A boxed four is a better object than four loose pouches, and that is a real part of what a pack is for.
How long will four pouches last?
Entirely down to how much you cook. As a rough guide, a rack of ribs or a leg of lamb takes two to three tablespoons and a pouch holds around twelve. A dry blend does not spoil quickly but it does fade, so buy what you will get through rather than the biggest box.
Should I buy this or the eight-pouch pack?
Count the blends you would genuinely use. If it is four, this is the pack. If you also cook fish, vegetables or Tex-Mex, the larger packs include those and the per-pouch figures are worth comparing across all of them.
How should I store them?
Sealed, cool, dry and away from the stove, with the air pressed out of each pouch and the zip cleared of powder so it closes properly. Open one at a time rather than having four on the go.
Can I buy just one of the blends in it?
Yes. Every blend in this pack is also sold as an individual 100g pouch, and two of them are also sold in tins.
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.