Our freshly cracked and scrambled eggs are cooked on the grill with liquid real butter. We also use the grill to heat our folded egg, which is previously cooked in our suppliers' kitchens before arriving at our restaurants.
Neither, our round eggs used in the tasty McMuffin products are actually steamed.
Cook until the eggs are set, it should take about two minutes. Gently remove the eggs from the rings, and place one egg on each piece of Canadian bacon. Top each egg with one slice of American cheese, top cheese with the top of the English muffin.
Making the egg “the McDonald's way” involves two simultaneous cooking techniques: frying and steaming. That is what gives the egg its soft, fluffy texture. Immediately cover the pan so the steam can build and help cook the egg.
McDonald's egg patties are prepared fresh in large batches thanks to the egg ring, and can then be stored warm for a while without losing that fresh taste and satisfying texture. The egg ring is why so many McD's breakfast sandwiches are great, and it is also why you probably can't ever quite replicate them at home.
Our freshly cracked and scrambled eggs are cooked on the grill with liquid real butter. We also use the grill to heat our folded egg, which is previously cooked in our suppliers' kitchens before arriving at our restaurants.
McDonald's website states, “Our folded eggs, like the ones on a Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit, are made with liquid eggs that are pre-cooked and folded before being flash frozen by our suppliers. Once in our kitchens, they're prepared on the grill with real butter.” YUM!
McDonald's currently sources 13 million cage-free eggs each year. By 2025, they have made a commitment to transition to entirely cage-free eggs in all of their US and Canadian restaurants. They use roughly 2 billion eggs per year in these stores so that is no small feat!
FRESHLY CRACKED
We're often asked if McDonald's eggs are fresh. The answer is yes – they are delivered fresh from our suppliers' farms each week and are only cracked in-restaurant, moments before being cooked to perfection and served.
McDonald's source their (real!) eggs from poultry ranches, where the eggs are so fresh they are usually laid on the same day they are shipped off to the restaurants. The egg shells are cleaned at the ranch with a warmy soapy water solution.
Folded eggs are pre-cooked outside of your local McDonald's and arrive at the restaurant in bags. They get heated up on a grill with a little bit of water and are stored in a tray until needed for a dish. In comparison, round eggs are made on site every day.
Currently, McDonald's has committed to stop sourcing eggs from battery cages in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America, but not in Asia.
McDonald's Egg McMuffin® recipe features a freshly cracked Grade A egg placed on a toasted English Muffin topped with real butter, lean Canadian bacon, and melty American cheese.
Ingredients: Pasteurized Cream (butterfat). Contains: Milk.
Freshly cracked for every McMuffin
Once they reach our restaurants our award-winning free-range eggs are freshly cracked into special round rings and steamed, so they fit perfectly inside our tasty McMuffins® every single time.
Once everything is mixed, we create the four famous Chicken McNuggets® shapes—bell, boot, ball and bone. They're coated in a light tempura batter, partially fried and quickly frozen to preserve flavor. Once in our restaurants, they're fully fried and served hot to you with a delicious taste that is full of flavor.
Egg rings work best in frying pans and griddles because these have a completely flat surface. If you have a frying pan with rounded inside edges, then you will probably only be able to cook 1-2 eggs at a time without the egg whites sneaking out underneath the egg rings.
JUST egg's secret ingredient is mung bean— specifically, an isolated mung bean protein—which has a similar texture to scrambled eggs when cooked. Other than that, the mixture is mostly made of unassuming ingredients like canola oil, water, and a combo of carrot extract and turmeric for that signature yellow color.
Just Egg is a plant-based vegan egg substitute that can be used as an ingredient in recipes that call for eggs, as well as scrambled and eaten on its own.
Well, to put it simply, powdered eggs are eggs that have been dehydrated and turned into an easy-to-store powder. Fresh eggs, which are obviously very tasty and also rich in protein, need to be refrigerated properly and quickly in order to prevent them from spoiling.