MeatHeads Texas Grill'em Pack
Five 100g pouches — the four-meat set plus Texican for tacos, fajitas and chilli. From a Hobsonville maker, couriered anywhere in Auckland.
Texas Grill'em
$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 Weeknight One
The standard four-protein set with the Tex-Mex blend added — and that fifth pouch is used differently from everything else in the box:
Texican — the addition
Tacos, fajitas, chilli and nachos, described by the maker as having a hint of heat. It is the one blend here that is a cooking seasoning rather than a surface rub.
It will empty first
The four meat blends are for a particular protein on a particular night. This one goes into a pot of chilli, a tray of wedges, a pan of taco mince — the sort of cooking that happens on a Tuesday rather than a Sunday.
Porktopia, Blazin' Grazin, Rambo, Bok Boken
Pork, beef, lamb and chicken — the same four blends as the smaller pack, used the same way.
Different technique, same box
The four meat blends go on a dry surface before heat. The Tex-Mex one is best bloomed in hot fat before liquid goes in. Worth knowing so the fifth pouch is not used like the other four.
What it does not cover
No fish blend, no vegetable blend, no game blend. The eight-pouch pack is the only one with all of them.
Getting the Fifth Pouch Right
A Tex-Mex blend used like a rub is a Tex-Mex blend wasted. The technique it wants takes thirty seconds and changes the result completely:
Brown the meat first, and drain it.
Colour on the mince before anything else goes in. Then pour the excess fat off — you want enough to bloom spices in, not a pool.
Soften the onions in what is left.
Medium heat, until translucent. Aromatics cooked, spices not yet involved.
Add the seasoning straight into the hot fat.
Not onto the meat, not into liquid. The flavour compounds in a ground blend are fat-soluble and this is the only step that releases them properly.
Thirty seconds, stirring constantly.
Until the smell changes and lifts. Longer than that and ground spice burns, and burnt spice makes a whole pot bitter with nothing you can do about it.
Add your liquid immediately.
Tomatoes, stock, a splash of water for tacos. It stops the spices cooking and carries the flavour through the dish.
Taste at the end and adjust then.
An hour of simmering changes a blend considerably. Season to finish rather than assuming the beginning was enough.
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 is the point at which they need somewhere of their own rather than a corner of the spice cupboard:
- 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.
Of the three five-pouch packs this is the one whose fifth blend gets used most often, simply because Tex-Mex cooking happens on ordinary weeknights while game and seafood tend to be occasions. That is worth as much as the per-pouch figure when deciding between them.
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.
Compare the three five-pouch packs.
They are the same four meat blends with a different fifth: Tex-Mex here, game in Gone Hunting, fish in Gone Fishing. Pick by which fifth blend you will actually use.
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Frequently Asked Questions: The Texas Grill'em Pack
What is in the Texas Grill'em Pack?
Five 100g pouches: Porktopia for pork, Blazin' Grazin for beef, Rambo for lamb, Bok Boken for chicken, and Texican, a Tex-Mex blend for tacos, fajitas, chilli and nachos. Five hundred grams in total.
How is it different from the other five-pouch packs?
Only in the fifth pouch. All three contain the same four meat blends; Texas Grill'em adds the Tex-Mex blend, Gone Hunting adds the game blend, and Gone Fishing adds the fish blend. Choose by which of those three you will genuinely use.
Why is the Tex-Mex blend used differently?
Because it is a cooking seasoning rather than a surface rub. The four meat blends go onto a dry surface before heat; this one is best bloomed in hot fat for about thirty seconds before liquid is added, which is what releases the flavour compounds in a ground blend.
What does blooming mean?
Cooking a dry spice blend briefly in hot fat before any liquid goes in. Much of the flavour in ground spices is fat-soluble, so thirty seconds of stirring in hot oil does more than an hour of simmering in a wet pot. Add liquid immediately afterwards, because ground spice burns quickly at that point and burnt spice makes a whole dish bitter.
How hot is the Tex-Mex blend?
Nothing published gives a heat rating, and tolerance varies a great deal between people. The seller describes it as having a hint of heat. Taste a pinch on its own before committing a whole pot, and build up in stages rather than seasoning once at the start.
Is the pack cheaper than five single pouches?
The figures further up this page work it out live against a current single-pouch listing, so they reflect today's prices. A pack is only a saving on the pouches you would have bought regardless.
Which pouch will run out first?
Almost certainly the Tex-Mex one, because it goes into weeknight cooking — taco mince, chilli, wedges — rather than being reserved for a particular cut on a particular night.
What is not in it?
No fish blend, no vegetable blend and no game blend. The eight-pouch King O' the Grill pack is the only one containing every blend in the range.
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.