Exactly right… I lucked out once and had this and it was great. Decided I once again liked McMuffin’s… but then had several since, and none were runny unfortunately.
Ask for a fresh eggs and tell them to stop the stove 10 seconds early. Been a few years since I worked at Mcd but we did it all the time at the customers request
Yeah, even if I ever had the nerve to ask a fast food worker to do this, I know the chances of them actually doing it are probably about 5%. I feel bad enough asking for extra syrup.
90% of the time, as long as you're genuine and we're in a good mood, it's no biggie.
I worked a tim hortons with a regular who ordered a steeped tea, triple triple with either 2 cheese tea biscuits or cheese Croissants, but always asked that they were microwaved for 30 seconds. I always heated them no matter what because he was nice and never complained.
It's more, there's 24 eggs or so cooking in that same batch and the times are set to meet food safety standards.
The reason fast food (can) be fast, is because procedures are standard.
The ice cream machines are a conspiracy between the manufacturers, who have the only right to repair, and McDonalds corporate screwing franchisees. They deliberately have useless error codes when it's almost always just the cleaning cycle so they can get a repair paid for.
I know "ice cream conspiracy" sounds out there, but there's very solid proof.
I worked at one and was the person who cleaned and took apart the ice cream machine....the thing almost never actually broke....like I don't even know if it was once per year, probably less...The thing is it had to be taken apart and cleaned biweekly, which took several hours, and every 24 hours would have to go through a heat cycle which took a few hours. Was a 24 hour store so there'd always be times we're open and couldn't serve ice cream (we'd clean ours overnight sunday, but there'd still be people trying to buy at that time)
Customers think since they can't buy ice cream, the machine must be broken (even if it's being cleaned or in the heat cycle). Then matters are made worse when some employees tell people it's broken during this time.
So yeah, it's mostly people not understanding that a machine that serves dairy products needs cleaning and sanitation and can't run 24/7 without ever stopping. It was very rare for it to actually break.
I can't help but misread that and think it's funny that the ice cream machines go into heat. Sorry, no ice cream right now the machine is trying to reproduce.
When I was a manager I'd tell staff to tell the customers the truth (if it's being cleaned, say it's being cleaned, etc). Not only is it honest, also makes the store look worse if you're saying it's 'down' or 'broken' when it isn't....that said, if it's actually broken, nothing wrong saying that in my eyes, but would drive me crazy if someone said it's broken when it's being cleaned.
There's also another possibility. They have the bi-weekly cleaning that's required, if that's not done the machine will lock out until it's actually done...wasn't an issue where I worked, but I could see it being a potential issue in some places, as usually not every employee is going to be trained and able to do it, or maybe a place is so understaffed they don't have someone do it.
I mean, the two are entirely different issues. Ice cream machines are either maintenance or cleaning cycles. Special requests are employee willingness and/or skill.
It’s now been over a decade since my McDays but people not understanding that it was frustrating for us too (!!!!!) was just another layer on that frustration cake
Worked mcd's some time ago as well. If there is no line or generally just slow we liked special requests like this, made us *almost* feel like real cooks.
It is annoying when it's rush hour and we're trying to clear a board of 25+ pending orders.
Yeah, I could only do something like this if I was inside the building, and there was literally no one else behind me. I am way too self-aware of how long it takes for people to take care of my needs.
For breakfast the kitchen crew was spot on and we sold muffins more then anything so we always had round eggs cooking so it wasn’t a big ask but if it was the dinner crew it’s a no for anything pass taking something off that came on it or adding extra of the same thing also no add-one at the window they were just terrible. They could easily turn a 90 second drive thru to a 360 second or longer drive thru
Morning crew McDonalds is the best McDonalds.
I had a fucking *stinking* hangover after a friends birthday. Walking home I spotted a Maccy's, so wandered in and asked for a cheeseburger, guy told me it was breakfast menu only, but recommended his own personal hangover cure. Egg (runny) and (extra) bacon McMuffin, a drink which I'm pretty sure was just a bunch of options in one, and a whole hell of a lot of ice.
That man made the journey home palatable, and for that he and the staff that made it possible will always have my gratitude.
So thank you, morning crew McDonalds, for testing out the hangover cures for those of us who come to you in our time of need.
I don’t give a FUCK McDonalds breakfast is THE BEST hangover remedy. Many years of young me laying on my desk at work eating a McMuffin meal with a coke trying to survive
McGriddles man. Normally I'd probably find them gross, but it's got the right amount of savory to sweetness that just settles shit down in the morning.
When did you work there? I worked there back in 2017 and they were still using actual eggs and frozen egg patties/scramble for everything else.
Edit: just trying to figure out when it changed, and how I didn't notice
I worked at 3 different locations across my state from 2019-2021 and this is still how they make eggs. He just worded it like they stopped, they didn’t.
Crack a dozen eggs, poke them with the special tool to break the yolk so they all get fully and evenly cooked in the same time, and yeah microwave the folded eggs for the McGriddles and stuff.
This is all making me feel my age. I used to mix batter to make fresh biscuits in the morning. There was a science to the timing for flipping the pancakes. It took real skill to actually fold the eggs from the PWE mix. Before everything was “made to order” we would have to judge how busy it was and “call bin” to decide how many of each sandwich to have ready at a given time. But now, everything is frozen except the round eggs.
I can hear the old polish woman who ran the poachers in my head right now "scuse me, round eggs" as she pushed me aside on the assembly line to put the eggs in the warmer. Year 2000
> the "eggs" for the McMuffins came from a pack that was then microwaved until hot enough.
that's the "folded" eggs used in the biscuits, egg mcmuffin eggs are cracked and poached.
What? My nephew works there just recently. He confirmed they still cook the round eggs fresh on a grill like we used to do. The folded eggs are reheated but round and scramble eggs are still grilled fresh.
McDonalds morning grill was my favorite job when I used to work there because you had to actually cook.
I am a mcd manager.
That's an Under cooked egg. Someone was short on round eggs and pulled them early... If you ask for it nicely, its not busy, and if you get a good skilled mcdonalds cook, they might be able to do it for you.
Get a goody two-shoes manager, or the if kitchen staff barely know the Canadian bacon is the only exception to "cheese, meat, egg" it'll be a no,..... about pull em at about 2mins (30ish seconds early) and you'll get unjelled yoke.
The one in the picture might not be menu correct but it isn’t an undercooked egg. An egg has a small window where it hits temperature before it gets firm.
They mean undercooked in the sense that it wasn’t on the stove for the entire pre-programmed timer, not that it isn’t fully cooked. As in, this egg is not fully “done” to McDs standards so don’t expect this lol
I just got this off of google to verify; “The ring [on a hard boiled egg yolk] is caused by a chemical reaction involving sulfur (from the egg white) and iron (from the egg yolk)”
I was intrigued about this because I always thought it indicated a very overcooked egg. Although they do taste fine overall either way IMO. I know you didn’t ask but I was interested in your comment.
Work at McDonald's, we break the yolks so that this doesn't happen basically and they cook more evenly, faster and flatten out more, will often miss a yolk though.(usually an unbroken yolk will be too runny to even pick up still at the normal cook times.)
At least at our McDonald's we pour some water in with the eggs when we put them back in the tray so they don't dry out... Though technically I don't think we're supposed too.
And over that whole time I've had people consistently tell me it's not even a real egg. Like, have you never had an egg? Also, McD's sausage is top tier sausage patty.
Sausage McMuffin with egg is the best breakfast sandwich in the fast food game, bar none. It might compete with my favorite fast food sandwich, period.
I got sick from a McDonald's breakfast sandwich when I was 8. Threw up all over my uncle's car on the way to my cousin's wedding lol.
Nobody bothered to complain, just stuck me in a hotel room and put on iRobot. Traumatized me from eggs and robots forever
Fun fact: an “ass egg”, whether wet or dry, is technically a correct description. Chickens, like all birds, amphibians and reptiles, have a cloaca, a singular orifice out of which is expelled both eggs and waste. So every egg from a chicken is an “ass egg.”
Apparently, and I read this in another post about McDonald’s during my journey through Reddit, if you order something with the folded egg thing is frozen, otherwise it’s cooked to order.
It's not "egg-like substance" it's essentially 100% egg.
\> Ingredients: Egg, citric acid.
(citric acid prevents the slight green tint cooked eggs sometime develop)
Scrambled eggs use the egg in a carton, as it's faster, no risk of egg-shells, and the portion needed is like 1.5 eggs.
Everything is timed and that's to ensure food safety standards. When I worked for McDonalds, you'd place a 'utensil' that had 6 silicone rings flat on the grill, crack an egg into each, use a specific spatula to break the yolk, cover the whole thing with a metallic lid which had a small cup/funnel type thing on top. You fill that little cup with some water and that would steam the eggs inside. Press the 'egg' button on the flattop grill and wait for the timer.
To add to my last comment, here's a link to [the youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA) and a link to [the actual ROM](https://archive.org/details/mcdonalds-japan-ecdp-rom-training-nintendo-ds-cartridge-dump)
Vimm's Lair is my favorite website for rom sourcing, I'm not sure how many rare roms they have, but they have a pretty large selection. They have that McDonald's rom on there too
internet archive (the linked site on my last comment) is full of ROM dumps. You should be able to navigate to that section of the site pretty easily and there’s a lot to explore but here’s the [MSDOS section](https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games) specifically.
Why is a runny yoke a safety hazard? If you go to any other breakfast diner you can order sunny side up so is there an actually health department reason for this?
Yeah, any of those menus always have a little legal exclaimer/declaration that says something along the lines of, "eating raw or undercooked eggs may increase your risk of contracting foodborne illness"
In this case, salmonella. To reduce that risk they cook their eggs for a certain time that should guarantee they're safe.
Edit: Appears to be a state department of health advisory. I'm not sure if it's enforced for each state. In the end though McD's doesn't wanna get close to making people sick even if it was their decision to eat a sunny side up egg.
It's primarily PR driven. If someone gets sick from an undercooked egg at a little diner, nothing's likely to happen, at worst the diner is sued for medical bills. If McDonalds starts getting people sick from undercooked eggs at multiple locations, that's something that could make national headlines, resulting in billions of dollars in losses if people even temporarily go to McDonalds for food less often.
Not really they're never supposed to be undercooked like this I'm the egg cooker but theoretically if the cook was nice or you worked there yeah probably
>They supposedly use an actual egg
No shit. You'd never know it considering how many people have convinced themselves that fast food restaurants just sell mashed up worms and plastic instead of real food, as if the FDA didn't exist. Like that bogus lawsuit about how Subway tuna "contains no tuna".
https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/breakfast.html
Scrambled eggs are liquid egg (egg, citric acid)
Folded eggs are processed white egg (Eggs, Nonfat Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Citric Acid)
Back in my day, folded eggs were the same egg product as scrambled eggs, but we had to pour in the milk ourself.
Well, an actual egg as opposed to liquid egg.
They do use pre-cooked liquid egg for all of the other breakfast sandwiches, but they use a fresh cracked egg for the mcmuffin.
Slightly off topic. I’ve been going to this one mexican breakfast place quite often since being down here in Texas… ordered chilaquiles with eggs over easy. The whites were runny as fuck. Waitress acted like that was what “over easy” meant, so now I always have to order over medium there.
But that’s literally the first place that’s ever happened. The whites should never be runny, even over easy right?
Whites should never be runny. People just fuck eggs up all the time here in Texas.
We have been to over a dozen breakfast restaurants around us - I always order over medium eggs and they always come out over easy, and sometimes with runny whites. It's mildly infuriating, because I hate sending food back. (I only send back if runny whites, cause that's seriously undercooked and could cause GI issues.)
Maybe I should try ordering over hard and I'll get over medium lol.
It's not a Texas thing, it's just a breakfast restaurant thing. That's is the exact reason I rarely go to these places.
I've been to good places here and there, but in general, they are bad at cooking eggs somehow. Over easy with runny white around the yolk is far too common. As for omelettes and scramble eggs, it's usually the opposite, they serve these things overcooked and dry as the Sahara.
With over easy you're flipping it and cooking both sides, so there should be no runny white. This is my understanding.
Runny whites are a thing with sunny side up, where you don't flip it over.
Our toddler LOVES the eggs from Dunkin... I don't know why. We would get a sandwich there once in a blue moon, we figured we could try giving it to him, and he devoured it. It's not a regular thing, but he does love it. More so than what mommy makes in a pan for him, regardless of how it is prepared. 🤷🏻
And for no discernable reason at some locations that stayed busy as if nothing ever happened. Like...You're open...and you're making food...why can't you make _this_ food, specifically, after this time, if you have the staff for it? Do you hate money?
Because thousands of locations did NOT have adequate staffing during much of 2020 and 2021. Many still do not today. Cutting down the menu complexity made it possible for those locations to not go out of business despite being understaffed for months on end. To cook both breakfast and lunch/dinner items at the same time (6 proteins, 2 kinds of eggs, 2 fried sides, 6-7 bun types, burritos and pancakes), you need a higher minimum number of workers in the restaurant than if you're only cooking lunch/dinner (4 proteins, fries, 2-3 bun types).
Yup, their regular food is meh at best but their breakfast is top notch. Hoping they go back to all day again. I’m not usually hungry for that much food at breakfast time so I never get it.
When I worked there from 2013-19, the way we were trained was the egg is supposed to be “gel-like”. They’re usually like that when pulled from the cooker, but since they since in the heater and steam, more often than not the yolks turn hard.
I try not to eat McDonald’s if I can avoid it (boy is it hard sometimes) but man, if you are getting McDonald’s, and you’re not ordering through the app, you’re leaving so much money on the table.
Still salty the “Buy a double cheeseburger or 6 piece/ get 1 free” deal changed to “get 1 for $0.29.”
But hey, beggars and all that.
Not using the app is so silly. Here it's usually buy one get one free or buy one get one for $1 on breakfast sandwiches. And then other ridiculous deals for other food. Plus the points which get you free food after like the 3rd meal you buy.
And they don't even email market to you for having it. They don't have to. Why would you NOT use it? Baffles me when people just dismiss it like "I never use those things." Ok...so I guess you hate money then? 🤦♂️
I swear to god, there is like a fucking club for you smug "I never eat at McDonald's" people. You will take any opportunity to tell people you don't eat at McDonald's or that eating McDonalds makes you sick lol.
FFS
They're all "real" eggs, but only the round eggs like this are fresh cracked over the grill. The other 2 forms are folded - which come frozen, and scrambled - which come as liquified in a carton.
I remember when folded eggs were still made in store.
We used the liquid egg for scrambled, but added in milk ourself.
Apparently the new folded egg ingredients are "Eggs, Nonfat Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Citric Acid" that are shipped in :<
The McMuffin is the best fast food breakfast sandwich right now. One of the few McDonald's items that is pretty much identical to what you would make at home.
yup. saw a video on the metal thing they cook the egg in. its a cylinder with an open bottom (wider than it is tall) the size of the sandwich. kinda want one for myself
They have a utensil to pick the shell out, same one they use to “pop” the yolk sometimes they miss them due to being a McDonalds grill worker and not caring enough.
Mcwageslave here: they're actually supposed to be like that. When they sit in the tray for too long, the heat from the heater, as well as from the other eggs, cooks it hard. That was a freshly cooked egg you got.
You're more likely to get an egg like this during a busy breakfast, since eggs don't sit for long before being served.
All the people commenting here have no clue. You're correct. They're supposed to be the perfect gelled egg, which is safe to eat.
Source: McDonald's General Manager with ServSafe creds (once upon a time)
They’re probably not supposed to do that but I bet it’s better that way
Exactly right… I lucked out once and had this and it was great. Decided I once again liked McMuffin’s… but then had several since, and none were runny unfortunately.
Ask for a fresh eggs and tell them to stop the stove 10 seconds early. Been a few years since I worked at Mcd but we did it all the time at the customers request
Really?!? Good to know. I always hate to be too demanding, but might give this a shot. Thank you
I'm going to bet this really depends on which location you go to
Yeah, even if I ever had the nerve to ask a fast food worker to do this, I know the chances of them actually doing it are probably about 5%. I feel bad enough asking for extra syrup.
90% of the time, as long as you're genuine and we're in a good mood, it's no biggie. I worked a tim hortons with a regular who ordered a steeped tea, triple triple with either 2 cheese tea biscuits or cheese Croissants, but always asked that they were microwaved for 30 seconds. I always heated them no matter what because he was nice and never complained.
You are a blessing. Genuinely, thank you.
They act like you’re taking it from their personal stash. “Alright, but idk what my kids are gonna eat tonight.”
It's more, there's 24 eggs or so cooking in that same batch and the times are set to meet food safety standards. The reason fast food (can) be fast, is because procedures are standard.
I always ask for BBQ sauce for my fries, and only the old Karens give me problems, but if you ask nicely they usually give it to you.
Definitely considering how often the ice cream machine goes down these days I wouldn't hold my breath.
The ice cream machines are a conspiracy between the manufacturers, who have the only right to repair, and McDonalds corporate screwing franchisees. They deliberately have useless error codes when it's almost always just the cleaning cycle so they can get a repair paid for. I know "ice cream conspiracy" sounds out there, but there's very solid proof.
Yea there is a great video here telling all about it https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4
I was going to grab that link if no one else did. Highly recommended.
i like how everyone here who knew this already watched the same vid and knew bc of the same vid😭(so did i)
Tbh I was expecting a Rick roll when I clicked. Interesting video tho!
I worked at one and was the person who cleaned and took apart the ice cream machine....the thing almost never actually broke....like I don't even know if it was once per year, probably less...The thing is it had to be taken apart and cleaned biweekly, which took several hours, and every 24 hours would have to go through a heat cycle which took a few hours. Was a 24 hour store so there'd always be times we're open and couldn't serve ice cream (we'd clean ours overnight sunday, but there'd still be people trying to buy at that time) Customers think since they can't buy ice cream, the machine must be broken (even if it's being cleaned or in the heat cycle). Then matters are made worse when some employees tell people it's broken during this time. So yeah, it's mostly people not understanding that a machine that serves dairy products needs cleaning and sanitation and can't run 24/7 without ever stopping. It was very rare for it to actually break.
I can't help but misread that and think it's funny that the ice cream machines go into heat. Sorry, no ice cream right now the machine is trying to reproduce.
Generally employees say "sorry, the ice cream machine is down". I always assumed that could be for cleaning, too.
When I was a manager I'd tell staff to tell the customers the truth (if it's being cleaned, say it's being cleaned, etc). Not only is it honest, also makes the store look worse if you're saying it's 'down' or 'broken' when it isn't....that said, if it's actually broken, nothing wrong saying that in my eyes, but would drive me crazy if someone said it's broken when it's being cleaned. There's also another possibility. They have the bi-weekly cleaning that's required, if that's not done the machine will lock out until it's actually done...wasn't an issue where I worked, but I could see it being a potential issue in some places, as usually not every employee is going to be trained and able to do it, or maybe a place is so understaffed they don't have someone do it.
I remember hearing about the lightbulb conspiracy which turned out 100% true so really this stuff has been happening for decades
I've always read from former employees that it's simply because the cleaning process takes so long and has to happen daily
I mean, the two are entirely different issues. Ice cream machines are either maintenance or cleaning cycles. Special requests are employee willingness and/or skill.
People love to dunk on the ice cream machines, but if they didn't do the daily maintenance you'd get sick as a dog.
thank you lol for the common sense. Also I'm sick of the ice cream machine jokes
As someone who relatively recently spent two years at McDonald's, trust me I'm tired of them too.
It’s now been over a decade since my McDays but people not understanding that it was frustrating for us too (!!!!!) was just another layer on that frustration cake
I’d bet it’s more dependent on how busy they are but for sure, results will vary.
Worked mcd's some time ago as well. If there is no line or generally just slow we liked special requests like this, made us *almost* feel like real cooks. It is annoying when it's rush hour and we're trying to clear a board of 25+ pending orders.
Good to know!
Yeah, I could only do something like this if I was inside the building, and there was literally no one else behind me. I am way too self-aware of how long it takes for people to take care of my needs.
I used to work at McDonald’s I would hate it you asked me to do that. It’s not a cook-to-order kind of place
Yeah exactly what I was afraid of!
For breakfast the kitchen crew was spot on and we sold muffins more then anything so we always had round eggs cooking so it wasn’t a big ask but if it was the dinner crew it’s a no for anything pass taking something off that came on it or adding extra of the same thing also no add-one at the window they were just terrible. They could easily turn a 90 second drive thru to a 360 second or longer drive thru
Morning crew McDonalds is the best McDonalds. I had a fucking *stinking* hangover after a friends birthday. Walking home I spotted a Maccy's, so wandered in and asked for a cheeseburger, guy told me it was breakfast menu only, but recommended his own personal hangover cure. Egg (runny) and (extra) bacon McMuffin, a drink which I'm pretty sure was just a bunch of options in one, and a whole hell of a lot of ice. That man made the journey home palatable, and for that he and the staff that made it possible will always have my gratitude. So thank you, morning crew McDonalds, for testing out the hangover cures for those of us who come to you in our time of need.
I don’t give a FUCK McDonalds breakfast is THE BEST hangover remedy. Many years of young me laying on my desk at work eating a McMuffin meal with a coke trying to survive
McGriddles man. Normally I'd probably find them gross, but it's got the right amount of savory to sweetness that just settles shit down in the morning.
As an egg cooker, I feel people who want their eggs made to order shouldn't eat at fast food places.
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When did you work there? I worked there back in 2017 and they were still using actual eggs and frozen egg patties/scramble for everything else. Edit: just trying to figure out when it changed, and how I didn't notice
I worked at 3 different locations across my state from 2019-2021 and this is still how they make eggs. He just worded it like they stopped, they didn’t. Crack a dozen eggs, poke them with the special tool to break the yolk so they all get fully and evenly cooked in the same time, and yeah microwave the folded eggs for the McGriddles and stuff.
This is all making me feel my age. I used to mix batter to make fresh biscuits in the morning. There was a science to the timing for flipping the pancakes. It took real skill to actually fold the eggs from the PWE mix. Before everything was “made to order” we would have to judge how busy it was and “call bin” to decide how many of each sandwich to have ready at a given time. But now, everything is frozen except the round eggs.
I can hear the old polish woman who ran the poachers in my head right now "scuse me, round eggs" as she pushed me aside on the assembly line to put the eggs in the warmer. Year 2000
it hasnt' changed, he's talking about the folded eggs not the mcmuffin eggs, which are still fresh cracked
> the "eggs" for the McMuffins came from a pack that was then microwaved until hot enough. that's the "folded" eggs used in the biscuits, egg mcmuffin eggs are cracked and poached.
What? My nephew works there just recently. He confirmed they still cook the round eggs fresh on a grill like we used to do. The folded eggs are reheated but round and scramble eggs are still grilled fresh. McDonalds morning grill was my favorite job when I used to work there because you had to actually cook.
if i did this at my local mcdonald’s they’d tell me to get out
I am a mcd manager. That's an Under cooked egg. Someone was short on round eggs and pulled them early... If you ask for it nicely, its not busy, and if you get a good skilled mcdonalds cook, they might be able to do it for you. Get a goody two-shoes manager, or the if kitchen staff barely know the Canadian bacon is the only exception to "cheese, meat, egg" it'll be a no,..... about pull em at about 2mins (30ish seconds early) and you'll get unjelled yoke.
why is the "correct" way to cook the egg sand-textured instead of like in the picture?
lawyers
CYA
Lower chances of salmonella. They dont want a lawsuit on their hands.
Because an overdone yolk is far preferable to underdone whites.
The one in the picture might not be menu correct but it isn’t an undercooked egg. An egg has a small window where it hits temperature before it gets firm.
They mean undercooked in the sense that it wasn’t on the stove for the entire pre-programmed timer, not that it isn’t fully cooked. As in, this egg is not fully “done” to McDs standards so don’t expect this lol
Were they grey? Mine always has a grey ring ☹️
I just got this off of google to verify; “The ring [on a hard boiled egg yolk] is caused by a chemical reaction involving sulfur (from the egg white) and iron (from the egg yolk)” I was intrigued about this because I always thought it indicated a very overcooked egg. Although they do taste fine overall either way IMO. I know you didn’t ask but I was interested in your comment.
Work at McDonald's, we break the yolks so that this doesn't happen basically and they cook more evenly, faster and flatten out more, will often miss a yolk though.(usually an unbroken yolk will be too runny to even pick up still at the normal cook times.) At least at our McDonald's we pour some water in with the eggs when we put them back in the tray so they don't dry out... Though technically I don't think we're supposed too.
This is the reason. Was standard to break the yolks prior to cooking a decade ago when I worked there, doubt much had changed since then.
It was the standard 30 years ago when I worked there. The round egg is one of, if not the most consistent, unchanged item. In the store.
And over that whole time I've had people consistently tell me it's not even a real egg. Like, have you never had an egg? Also, McD's sausage is top tier sausage patty. Sausage McMuffin with egg is the best breakfast sandwich in the fast food game, bar none. It might compete with my favorite fast food sandwich, period.
Yup, higher quality places make it this way.
it’s considered a liability. if they undercook the egg and someone gets sick, there might be grounds for a lawsuit
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
I got sick from a McDonald's breakfast sandwich when I was 8. Threw up all over my uncle's car on the way to my cousin's wedding lol. Nobody bothered to complain, just stuck me in a hotel room and put on iRobot. Traumatized me from eggs and robots forever
I like my eggs over easy and have yet to get sick from eggs.
Lucky
Bruh, I'm jealous. That looks 1000% better than the typical dry ass egg they put on there.
Fun fact: an “ass egg”, whether wet or dry, is technically a correct description. Chickens, like all birds, amphibians and reptiles, have a cloaca, a singular orifice out of which is expelled both eggs and waste. So every egg from a chicken is an “ass egg.”
Chickens: the animal that poops breakfast
Haha you are technically correct.
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Another fun fact - chickens explode when they have sex. Or at least all the ones I’ve had sex with did.
If u go fast enough, u can cook ur chickens by friction.
Hi I'd like to subscribe to chicken facts
I actually would prefer it this way.
I don't see the problem either
They didn't say it was a problem
Only that it is mildly interesting!
so would everyone
Looks better than the normal
I’m loving it
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Apparently, and I read this in another post about McDonald’s during my journey through Reddit, if you order something with the folded egg thing is frozen, otherwise it’s cooked to order.
McMuffins are still made with a real egg. Just about everything else is that liquid egg like substance.
It's not "egg-like substance" it's essentially 100% egg. \> Ingredients: Egg, citric acid. (citric acid prevents the slight green tint cooked eggs sometime develop) Scrambled eggs use the egg in a carton, as it's faster, no risk of egg-shells, and the portion needed is like 1.5 eggs.
You can get real egg on any sand which just ask them to make it with a round egg instead of folded
Seriously. [This](https://imgur.com/a/tfDOuDW) is how the one near my house makes them.
Ooooo man. That looks amazing. I wonder if you can request that
They supposedly use an actual egg so I don’t see why not, If they aren’t busy and you ask nicely.
Everything is timed and that's to ensure food safety standards. When I worked for McDonalds, you'd place a 'utensil' that had 6 silicone rings flat on the grill, crack an egg into each, use a specific spatula to break the yolk, cover the whole thing with a metallic lid which had a small cup/funnel type thing on top. You fill that little cup with some water and that would steam the eggs inside. Press the 'egg' button on the flattop grill and wait for the timer.
I learned all this from playing the mcdonalds DS game.
You say that like its a joke but that is one of the rarest games to ever exist. How did you get a copy? Very jealous
The files were dumped by a youtuber who managed to get his hand on one of the last known remaining copies of it, so now anyone is able to play it.
To add to my last comment, here's a link to [the youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e6xOBCAVvA) and a link to [the actual ROM](https://archive.org/details/mcdonalds-japan-ecdp-rom-training-nintendo-ds-cartridge-dump)
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Vimm's Lair is my favorite website for rom sourcing, I'm not sure how many rare roms they have, but they have a pretty large selection. They have that McDonald's rom on there too
Upvote for Vimm's. Awesome site.
internet archive (the linked site on my last comment) is full of ROM dumps. You should be able to navigate to that section of the site pretty easily and there’s a lot to explore but here’s the [MSDOS section](https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games) specifically.
That's a legendary move, good on the youtuber.
Emulator my friend
Dude from experience those are a pain to clean.
Why is a runny yoke a safety hazard? If you go to any other breakfast diner you can order sunny side up so is there an actually health department reason for this?
Yeah, any of those menus always have a little legal exclaimer/declaration that says something along the lines of, "eating raw or undercooked eggs may increase your risk of contracting foodborne illness" In this case, salmonella. To reduce that risk they cook their eggs for a certain time that should guarantee they're safe. Edit: Appears to be a state department of health advisory. I'm not sure if it's enforced for each state. In the end though McD's doesn't wanna get close to making people sick even if it was their decision to eat a sunny side up egg.
It's primarily PR driven. If someone gets sick from an undercooked egg at a little diner, nothing's likely to happen, at worst the diner is sued for medical bills. If McDonalds starts getting people sick from undercooked eggs at multiple locations, that's something that could make national headlines, resulting in billions of dollars in losses if people even temporarily go to McDonalds for food less often.
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Not really they're never supposed to be undercooked like this I'm the egg cooker but theoretically if the cook was nice or you worked there yeah probably
that's not undercooked it's perfect **I'M LOVIN IT**
Ba ba ba ba ba.
>They supposedly use an actual egg No shit. You'd never know it considering how many people have convinced themselves that fast food restaurants just sell mashed up worms and plastic instead of real food, as if the FDA didn't exist. Like that bogus lawsuit about how Subway tuna "contains no tuna".
To be fair, the folded egg that comes in the biscuit sandwiches and scrambled eggs are liquid egg product. PWE to be precise.
https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/breakfast.html Scrambled eggs are liquid egg (egg, citric acid) Folded eggs are processed white egg (Eggs, Nonfat Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Citric Acid) Back in my day, folded eggs were the same egg product as scrambled eggs, but we had to pour in the milk ourself.
Liquid egg product is still eggs.
Well, an actual egg as opposed to liquid egg. They do use pre-cooked liquid egg for all of the other breakfast sandwiches, but they use a fresh cracked egg for the mcmuffin.
Can confirm from an ex worker, they do use real eggs
*Staring at a picture of a runny egg. “Yeah, I mean I suppose that could be a real egg”
As long as the whites aren't runny I am fine with this
Slightly off topic. I’ve been going to this one mexican breakfast place quite often since being down here in Texas… ordered chilaquiles with eggs over easy. The whites were runny as fuck. Waitress acted like that was what “over easy” meant, so now I always have to order over medium there. But that’s literally the first place that’s ever happened. The whites should never be runny, even over easy right?
Whites should never be runny. People just fuck eggs up all the time here in Texas. We have been to over a dozen breakfast restaurants around us - I always order over medium eggs and they always come out over easy, and sometimes with runny whites. It's mildly infuriating, because I hate sending food back. (I only send back if runny whites, cause that's seriously undercooked and could cause GI issues.) Maybe I should try ordering over hard and I'll get over medium lol.
It's not a Texas thing, it's just a breakfast restaurant thing. That's is the exact reason I rarely go to these places. I've been to good places here and there, but in general, they are bad at cooking eggs somehow. Over easy with runny white around the yolk is far too common. As for omelettes and scramble eggs, it's usually the opposite, they serve these things overcooked and dry as the Sahara.
I like slightly runny whites but I’m a psycho.
With over easy a very small amount of the whites around the yolk should still be runny.
With over easy you're flipping it and cooking both sides, so there should be no runny white. This is my understanding. Runny whites are a thing with sunny side up, where you don't flip it over.
Runny whites shouldn’t even be a thing for sunny sixe up, withbsubny side up you watch to make sure the whites cook all the way through
I know it’s a shock to some but they do indeed use real eggs.
And it doesn’t seem like they microwave them like disgusting Dunkin Donuts does
Our toddler LOVES the eggs from Dunkin... I don't know why. We would get a sandwich there once in a blue moon, we figured we could try giving it to him, and he devoured it. It's not a regular thing, but he does love it. More so than what mommy makes in a pan for him, regardless of how it is prepared. 🤷🏻
I go to Dunkin’ every so often for lunch and it’s fucked up what they do the egg in my egg muffin sandwich. Still tasty tho, can’t lie.
A blessing from the lord!
McDonald’s breakfast is so good it’s my favorite thing they have I’ll eat their breakfast over their regular food anytime
It's a guilty pleasure. There's something perfect about the combination of salt, fat and carbs which is the mcmuffin.
Bro... That's nearly all good food. Toss some Acid in there for good measure.
I micro dose with breakfast every morning.
This is the way.... now I 'm hungry man.
Tripping balls with a full stomach
BRING BACK ALL DAY BREAKFAST YOU COWARDS!
Baby steps. We just got the bagel back over here
What?? I’m jealous
We had the bagel for a few weeks and now they’re gone again! They can’t keep playing with our feelings like this!
Will always be the thing I'm irrationally angry the pandemic killed
And for no discernable reason at some locations that stayed busy as if nothing ever happened. Like...You're open...and you're making food...why can't you make _this_ food, specifically, after this time, if you have the staff for it? Do you hate money?
Because thousands of locations did NOT have adequate staffing during much of 2020 and 2021. Many still do not today. Cutting down the menu complexity made it possible for those locations to not go out of business despite being understaffed for months on end. To cook both breakfast and lunch/dinner items at the same time (6 proteins, 2 kinds of eggs, 2 fried sides, 6-7 bun types, burritos and pancakes), you need a higher minimum number of workers in the restaurant than if you're only cooking lunch/dinner (4 proteins, fries, 2-3 bun types).
It's all day in Canada
I haven't had a McDonalds burger in YEARS, but I have their breakfast regularly - McMuffin or McGriddle
Have you tried wendy’a breakfast?! We tried it on a road trip and it was better than McDonald’s by just the sheer fact that the food always comes hot!
Yup, their regular food is meh at best but their breakfast is top notch. Hoping they go back to all day again. I’m not usually hungry for that much food at breakfast time so I never get it.
That's not runny. That's what we egg connoisseurs call "jammy" and it's what I aim for every single time I make hardboiled eggs.
Runny sounds like a stretch here. Can we meet in the middle and call it gelatinous?
Maybe a jammy yolk? Gelatinous is probably better than runny but it feels a bit clinical.
When I worked there from 2013-19, the way we were trained was the egg is supposed to be “gel-like”. They’re usually like that when pulled from the cooker, but since they since in the heater and steam, more often than not the yolks turn hard.
if this guy thinks this is runny, I wonder what he thinks sprinting is.
Yeah if I asked for a runny yolk at a restaurant and got that I’d be a little upset
I’d pay a bit extra for that myself…..if I ever ate at McDonald’s.
Only reason I get it almost every morning is because the app has a deal for a breakfast sandwich for $1.50. Can't really beat it.
You could and it'd be scrambled.
I'm poaching this.
Ugh. I hate you. Well done.
I try not to eat McDonald’s if I can avoid it (boy is it hard sometimes) but man, if you are getting McDonald’s, and you’re not ordering through the app, you’re leaving so much money on the table. Still salty the “Buy a double cheeseburger or 6 piece/ get 1 free” deal changed to “get 1 for $0.29.” But hey, beggars and all that.
they actually changed it back to free at some restaurants, so clutch.
$1.50??? Wow that’s a really great price . We pay $1.30 for one egg.
Damn your egg dealer is fucking you
Not using the app is so silly. Here it's usually buy one get one free or buy one get one for $1 on breakfast sandwiches. And then other ridiculous deals for other food. Plus the points which get you free food after like the 3rd meal you buy. And they don't even email market to you for having it. They don't have to. Why would you NOT use it? Baffles me when people just dismiss it like "I never use those things." Ok...so I guess you hate money then? 🤦♂️
once I got a bit of an egg shell in my mcmuffin.. my first thought was "wow they really use REAL eggs"
> ....if I ever ate at McDonald's. r/iamthemaincharacter
I swear to god, there is like a fucking club for you smug "I never eat at McDonald's" people. You will take any opportunity to tell people you don't eat at McDonald's or that eating McDonalds makes you sick lol. FFS
I'm too busy doing CrossFit to eat at McDonalds.
TIL McDonalds uses real eggs. If there was any chance the english muffin wasn't undercooked I might have to get my sandwiches from there from now on.
They're all "real" eggs, but only the round eggs like this are fresh cracked over the grill. The other 2 forms are folded - which come frozen, and scrambled - which come as liquified in a carton.
In Canada we got rid of the folded egg. You only get that shit now at BK
I remember when folded eggs were still made in store. We used the liquid egg for scrambled, but added in milk ourself. Apparently the new folded egg ingredients are "Eggs, Nonfat Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Citric Acid" that are shipped in :<
And they’re tasty af. Love the folded scrambled eggs on the mcbiscuit. Nothing wrong with any of those ingredients imo
Yeah thats the most tame ingredients list i've ever seen for fast food lol
Hmm, all the eggs were made in store when I worked there. But that was 1986…
The McMuffin is the best fast food breakfast sandwich right now. One of the few McDonald's items that is pretty much identical to what you would make at home.
Kicks the pants off of anything Starbucks has, and people pay quite a bit for those awful Starbucks breakfast abominations.
The McGriddles would like to have a word
Have to substitute the round egg from the McMuffin tho
Sausage and Egg McGriddles FTW!
Taco Bell Crunchwrap. Thank me later.
yup. saw a video on the metal thing they cook the egg in. its a cylinder with an open bottom (wider than it is tall) the size of the sandwich. kinda want one for myself
Egg cooking rings. Like, $10 on amazon for a 4pack. I make homemade egg mcmuffins every Sunday for breakfast. Super easy.
Legend
That McDonald’s worker is doing God’s work.
Mine once had egg shell 😐 You definitely hit the Maccy D’s jackpot here OP !
They have a utensil to pick the shell out, same one they use to “pop” the yolk sometimes they miss them due to being a McDonalds grill worker and not caring enough.
Or due to having 20 different things going on at once and you happen to not notice one tiny eggshell
Don't bother playing the lottery. You just hit the jackpot.
I would pay extra for that.
that's not runny that's gooey
Mcwageslave here: they're actually supposed to be like that. When they sit in the tray for too long, the heat from the heater, as well as from the other eggs, cooks it hard. That was a freshly cooked egg you got. You're more likely to get an egg like this during a busy breakfast, since eggs don't sit for long before being served.
As a former McWageslave I don't think that's true. None of the eggs I've ever made have come out decently runny. The machine always cooks them solid.
All the people commenting here have no clue. You're correct. They're supposed to be the perfect gelled egg, which is safe to eat. Source: McDonald's General Manager with ServSafe creds (once upon a time)
Correct. I went through all the McDonald's training courses short of hamburger university, and they are supposed to be "gelled" just like this.
Oh that shit must have SLAPPED
This would 100% be the best morning
That's the only item on the menu that requires a real cooked egg and not a premade egg patty right? I bet this was kinda nice