Here's What To Order At McDonald's If You Want 'Real' Eggs (2024)

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Here's What To Order At McDonald's If You Want 'Real' Eggs? ›

The freshest item on the menu is the Egg McMuffin, which uses whole eggs that are freshly cracked and cooked in restaurants and free of additives. The Egg White McMuffin, which uses liquid egg whites, is also free of additives.

Our breakfast menu items are all made with real eggs—they're just prepared a little differently for each sandwich. We use a USDA Grade A cracked into an 'egg ring' to get that iconic round shape for our Egg McMuffin®. Our scrambled eggs are made with liquid eggs that are cooked on our grill with real butter.

They are not all created equal, according to former McDonald's corporate chef Mike Haracz. Round eggs are "the best egg, quality-wise," Haracz said in a TikTok. These are factory farm-fresh eggs that get cracked and cooked to order in a round ring mold (hence the name). The other fresh(ish) option is the scrambled egg.

Eggs whites in a carton will always include some type of preservative, necessary to help with shelf life and consistency. But as long as you choose a quality product, liquid options aren't nutritionally different from the real thing, Arrindell says.

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: EGG. UK or Irish sourced egg produced to Lion Quality standards or equivalent.

Looking to start your day with a smile? Try our scrambled eggs, also available with a side of mouth-watering crispy bacon. This breakfast option is also served as a combo with a choice of two drinks or a drink and a hash brown.

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.

"Our journey to move to sourcing 100% cage-free eggs in the U.S. was a huge undertaking — made uniquely possible by our owner/operators, Cargill and their egg producers, and our supply chain working together as one team," says Bob Stewart, SVP, North America chief supply chain officer for McDonald's.

McDonald's website reports that its "scrambled eggs are made with liquid eggs that are cooked fresh on our grill with real butter," and the folded eggs that you might find on a biscuit sandwich are also "prepared on the grill with real butter." Basically, if it's not a fresh-cracked egg or egg white, butter is involved ...

Why are McDonald's eggs so fluffy? ›

McDonald's eggs are known for their fluffy and light texture due to a few key techniques. One is the continuous whisking of the eggs, which adds air and creates a fluffy consistency. Additionally, McDonald's uses a combination of fresh eggs and a proprietary egg mixture that helps achieve that desired texture.

McDonald's just made a major change to its breakfast menu—and it's an egg-citing one. In 2015, the fast-food giant committed to sourcing 100% cage-free eggs for its restaurants in the United States by 2025. McDonald's just announced that it has now fulfilled that promise two years ahead of schedule.

Without the yolk, egg beaters contain“1/2 the calories of shell eggs,” 0mg of cholesterol, and 0g of fat. To compensate for the loss of vitamins and minerals, egg beaters are enriched with folic acid, riboflavin and other nutrients that are lost when the yolk is removed.

Rapaport adds that egg-white products, like Egg Beaters, are usually more expensive than buying a carton of eggs and discarding the yolks.

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.

According to Chef Mike Haracz, McDonald's former Manager of Culinary Innovation who spoke out on TikTok, the chain insists on fully cooking eggs to reduce the chance of foodborne illness. Over-easy eggs feature a yolk that's not completely cooked, which the USDA confirms poses a risk for salmonella.

Step 1: Make an Egg Ring

here's how to make one yourself! Fold the sheet of foil in half to form a 12inx5in rectangle. Fold it in half the same way 2 more times to end with a 12inx1in strip of foil. Make a 1/2in cut through the strip, starting from the bottom, 1in from the left side end.

Our full, satisfying Big Breakfast is perfect for any morning. Ever wondered what's in a McDonald's Big Breakfast? Wake up to a breakfast meal with a warm biscuit, fluffy scrambled eggs, savory McDonald's sausage and crispy golden Hash Browns.

Today, Forsman Farms and fellow egg suppliers like Herbruck's Poultry Ranch in Michigan are making it possible for McDonald's to source 100% cage-free eggs in the U.S. Herbruck's is a fourth-generation family business, operating since 1958 and supplying Cargill for the McDonald's system for decades.

Yes they do, our folded eggs contain pasteurised free range liquid egg and pasteurised semi skimmed milk.

Are McDonald's eggs fully cooked? ›

McDonald's takes food safety very seriously

As a result, the chain insists on cooking its fresh round eggs completely through when making breakfast sandwiches (the folded eggs available at the chain are actually derived from a liquid mixture and cooked prior to being used in the restaurant).

Chick-fil-A grills its chicken in-house in some locations, which almost no fast-food restaurant does, but it's not cracking eggs. Any of the breakfast items that contain egg are made from whole eggs, water, and a few other ingredients including natural butter-type flavor, xanthan gum, citric acid, and annatto.