Good question. Our breakfast menu items are all made with real eggs—they're just prepared a little differently for each sandwich.
The whole eggs we use in our breakfast McMuffins are cage-free and 100% Aussie, from suppliers like Pace Farm and Sunny Queen Farms.
McDonalds scrambled eggs are not the healthiest option for breakfast. They are made with partially-hydrogenated soybean oil, which is high in trans fats and can have a negative impact on your health.
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.
Confirming the achievement with Australian Food News, McDonald's said all eggs supplied to its restaurants are now cage-fee.
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.
Scrambled Eggs: Our scrambled eggs are made with liquid eggs that are cooked fresh on our grill with real butter. Folded Eggs: 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.
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.
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.
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.
“If you want real eggs on your breakfast sandwiches instead of the liquid stuff, you can put a round egg onto any breakfast sandwich,” former McDonald's employee Chuck Chan reveals on Quora. “Just ask for a 'round egg' on it.” Check out these other 17 things McDonald's employees won't tell you.
As @ essentialmcdonalds shows in his clip, those eggs are made by simply cracking a raw egg into a circular mold on the griddle. Employees then pop the yolks and pour water on top of the grill, creating steam.
Our eggs are not organic, nor are they free-range; they are from caged hens, McDonald's Australia writes on its website. Caged hens produce the cheapest eggs, which helps keeps McDonald's prices low, the company says. Our goal is to provide customers with great quality food at great value, the company's answer reads.
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.
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.
As for the scrambled eggs, they're made with the same liquid egg mixture as the folded eggs, meaning that you can also find sodium acid pyrophosphate and monosodium phosphate in them to maintain their signature yellow color and fluffy texture.
Adding milk or plain water to scrambled eggs is an optional step that affects the texture of your finished dish. For creamy scrambled eggs, you'll add up to 1 tablespoon of milk for every egg. For fluffy scrambled eggs, you'll add up to 1 tablespoon of water for every egg.
Ingredients: Pasteurized Cream (butterfat). Contains: Milk.
Mcdonald's Scrambled Eggs (2 eggs 3.6 oz) contains 1.9g total carbs, 1.9g net carbs, 15g fat, 15.4g protein, and 197 calories.
Whisking = EXTRA FLUFFY and Light!
Whisk the eggs vigorously before you add them to the pan and even once they're in the pan. The eggs should be foamy on the top. Foam = air pockets, which is the key to a fluffy consistency. Use a fork to whisk as this gives you more control, especially when whisking in the pan itself.
Typically, shell eggs, once cleaned and broken, are separated into whites and yolks. The whites and yolks are separately pasteurized. If whole liquid egg product is being made, pasteurized egg whites and egg yolks from the same production batch are blended together in their entirety, in natural proportions.
Every one of our McDonald's burgers is made with 100% pure beef and cooked and prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else—no fillers, no additives, no preservatives. We use the trimmings of cuts like the chuck, round and sirloin for our burgers, which are ground and formed into our hamburger patties.
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!