Why don t McDonald's do runny eggs?
McDonald's takes food safety very seriously
In the event you like your egg yolks to be a little bit runny when enjoying a breakfast sandwich, the chain will not be willing to meet your request.
According to his video, the chain's “folded” or “square” eggs arrive packed together in an airtight container. “They come pre-cooked,” he says. “All we do is throw them on the grill.” Meanwhile, workers cook the round eggs fresh.
Our suppliers pre-cook liquid eggs with ingredients that include sausage, tomatoes, green chilies, onions and seasonings before flash freezing them to help maintain their taste. Visit our breakfast menu to get the full list of ingredients in your favorite sandwich.
This is purely for food safety. to cook all of the eggs till a medium gel on the inside. McDonald's will never serve you a runny yolk on purpose.
Sunny side up: The egg is fried with the yolk up and is not flipped. Over easy: The egg is flipped and the yolk is still runny. Over medium: The egg is flipped and the yolk is only slightly runny. Over well: The egg is flipped and the yolk is cooked hard.
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.
“When an egg is cooked for too long and/or at too high a temperature, the sulfur in the egg white combines with the iron in the yolk and creates ferrous sulfide, which has a green tint,” she explains.
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“McDonald's USA works with the highest performing suppliers in the industry. We're thrilled they selected Cargill Protein's Egg Team as the 2017 U.S. Supplier of the Year,” said Norm Stocker, business lead for Cargill Poultry foodservice.
Are Mcdonalds liquid eggs real eggs?
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.
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.
Round cookie cutters (make sure they're heat-resistant) and Mason jar lids can work just as well as an egg ring.
Neither, our round eggs used in the tasty McMuffin products are actually steamed.
Eggs and dishes containing eggs (such as quiche and casseroles) should be cooked to 160 °F (71.1°C). Some unbroken fresh shell eggs may contain certain bacteria that can cause food borne illness. The bacteria are Salmonella Enteritidis.
So when you eat a runny yolk that also happens to be contaminated with salmonella, you can get sick, Wade Syers, MS, a food safety specialist at Michigan State University Extension, tells SELF. The main thing to know about a salmonella infection is that it's not fun—and it could be serious, says Syers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says any food of animal origin — like eggs, poultry, beef and fish — “has a chance of being contaminated with salmonella,” explained registered dietician Amanda Holtzer. “They conclude that it is not safe to eat any of these products if they are raw or undercooked.”
Over hard or over well. Cooked on both sides all the way through, with the yolk broken (immediately after the egg is cracked). Sunny-side up. Cooked on one side only, until the egg white is set, but the yolk remains liquid.
Over hard eggs means there is no runny yolk. You can still have a bit of just slightly undercooked firm yolk or you can make certain every bit of the yolk is fully cooked through. The yolk in an over hard egg is usually broken to make certain the yolk is cooked through.
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.
Are all McDonald's eggs free-range?
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McDonald's only uses free-range eggs across their entire menu, and have been doing so for over 20 years.
Sadly, during the start of the pandemic, due to reduced staffing and a lack of dine-in traffic, the decision was made to end their super popular all-day breakfast to "provide better speed of service" to customers.
Fortunately, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) website clearly states the green or gray color in the eggs is “safe to consume.”
The proteins in the yolk will discolour if the egg is cooked too long. It does not effect the flavour (apart from the egg being tougher) and is not known to be a health hazard.
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