Copycat Recipe for McCormick's Grill Mates Fiery 5 Pepper?

Judy
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July 23, 20180 found this helpful

I cant find the recipe. I would suggest that you look on the label for some clues to the ingredients. I would guess some cayenne is one of the ingredients

cybergrannie
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July 24, 20181 found this helpful

When you find that an item (especially from McCormick) is difficult to find you can usually bet that it has been discontinued. This Grill Mate has been discontinued for almost a year.

• McCormick does not give reasons why they discontinue a product (even from their website) and they never make any kind of "announcement" even to stores. A store just finds that an order is never filled until many months later and the order will then just say "no longer available".
• I feel sure McCormick's has their reasons for handling discontinued items like this but it does get frustrating for shoppers.
• Some time ago a McCormick rep told me they do not announce a product as being discontinued as people would buy up everything on the shelves and then hoard it until they could sell it (on eBay and other sites) for exorbitant prices. I have seen this happen. He said they do not add it to their discontinued list for the same reason so it may be over a year before you can find it on their list.
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• www.mccormick.com/discontinued
• You will find very few copycat recipes for any of the Grill Mate products so I can only guess it is difficult to recreate.
• Here are the ingredients but how much of each??
• Ingredients
• sea salt, spices (including ancho chile chiptole flakes, cayenne pepper, roasted chili pepper, black pepper, and oregano), unrefined sugar, garlic, onion, red bell pepper, citric acid, natural flavors, and extractives of paprika.
• Sorry - I believe you may have to find a substitute.
• Maybe someone else will have a better idea so keep checking back.

Pghgirl40
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July 26, 20180 found this helpful

I don't see any at the moment, but I have purchased many discontinued products on eBay. That doesn't help in the immediate, but it can be a good source for the item going forward.

Always be aware of the seller feedback and stay away from those with less than 99% feedback--ideally, only buy from someone with 100% but that sometimes is a challenge.

Ask about expiration dates if they aren't in the ad.

Two last suggestions

1. call the company and complain. I do this frequently--very politely of course--and they sometimes offer free coupons for their other products--which is a small consolation--but it tells them that their items are still in demand. Their contact info is www.mccormick.com/.../contact

2. put that ingredient list into google and see what comes up...there may be a similar product on the market.

I so hate when companies do this....

it

December 17, 20180 found this helpful

Amazon still has it . . . couldn't find a copycat recipe yet

southernreflections74

December 30, 20190 found this helpful

It is no longer available at Amazon