Only the egg in the sausage & egg burrito is microwaved. The egg McMuffin egg is cracked and fried. Cite. (The folded egg in some dishes is pre-cooked and then heated on the grill.)
The biggest disappointment is that they don’t have McGriddles all day. 
Burritos, McMuffins and hotcakes only, it appears. And sausage only, no bacon.
When I worked there, the McMuffin eggs were cracked and steamed/fried on the grill in a little six-circle pan with some water in the middle. Folded eggs were from a carton (but not powdered – apparently it’s fresh eggs scrambled and a little anti-coagulant added to keep the eggs from separating again), cooked on the grill in a thing with three long rectangles so when they were done, you could use a spatula and fold the long rectangles over twice. Burritos were just scrambled eggs from a carton stirred around on the grill with sausage, green chiles and tomatoes. It might have been warmed up in the microwave before serving, but nothing was “cooked” in the microwave. I worked there about 15 years ago. It might be different now, or at different locations.
Well, the Egg McMuffin eggs still seem to be cooked in those round pans, but the other eggs are different than 15 years ago according to the official McDonald’s literature I linked to.
The McDs near me started early so I’ve had three separate occasions to grab an Egg McMuffin at lunch time. Twice (at the same place) it took a really long time… they gave me the rest of my lunch first then had to come out 10 minutes later with the McMuffin. The third time (different location) was no problem speed-wise.
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Your phrasing caused me to expel pop all over my monitor. DO IT AGAIN!! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!
The one item that won’t be available anywhere outside breakfast hours is the hash browns, which I’m told is a shame. (I’ve never tried them.) Apparently this has to do with fryer temperatures.
That’s how I feel about it also. I read somewhere that McD’s is reducing their lunch/dinner menu also.
The following cite shows hash browns on the all-day menu nationwide:
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/06/
ETA 2 - hopefully this link with the same map will work:
Should have finished reading my own link:
“A terrible rumor spread nationwide today that hash browns aren’t on the menu: this is not true, and about 90% of locations serving the breakfast menu are serving hash browns.”
That’s what I get for posting sober - off to the fridge for a beer…
They had better be offering hash browns all day in my town. That’s the best thing on the breakfast menu.
For one thing they used to have four or so varieties of chicken sandwiches. Now (today when I went) it looked like only the new (expensive) buttermilk chicken sandwich is the only option. They also got rid of their “sirloin” burgers, unless that was a limited-time thing.
Maybe they didn’t offer them between 11am-midnight, but all my local McDonalds have been offering an “After Midnight” menu for several years that includes a few breakfast sandwiches and a choice of hash browns or fries. So you could get a Big Mac and hash browns at midnight.
Nothing about the expanded menu excites me because it’s either the most boring or the most easily home-microwaved menu items.
The good thing is, not eating biscuits has to be good for my health.
Hashbrowns were on the menu the other day in my local McDonald’s. The put out a placemat style menu for all-day breakfast. It had everything I cared about, which is:
Pancakes and sausage
Sausage McMuffin
Egg McMuffin
My kids love those offerings. I only eat the post-breakfast food.
My local McDs is not on the all day hash browns bandwagon. They claimed no one is. Dirty prevaricators!
This is definitely a Hail Mary on their part. Over the next couple years we’re going to see all sorts of antics from MCD to try to dig themselves out of the hole they’ve been sinking into.
At least in the US. They’re doing OK in the rest of the world because they can still keep expanding elsewhere, which is where most of their sales growth has come from. In the US, between total market saturation and competition from others they’re going to have to come up with something amazing to keep people coming in and the share holders happy.
What Big Norse said. McDona’ds has gone from being a restaurant… to being a KIDS restaurant… to being a sort of rapid dispensal food depot that sells largely tasteless food and preformed nuggets of fried pink slime.
There are a lot more burger options nowadays in most markets, and McDonalds is paying the price for decades of supremacy… to the point where the food suffered for it. I can guarantee you that the whole idea of all day breakfast is a tremendous pain in the tuckus for everyone who actually works at a McDonalds, but Corporate is looking for cheap ways to get our attention and turn things around…
Their coffee isn’t bad, now that it’s served at subvolcanic temperatures. Maybe try to cut in on the Starbucks action?
I wanna patty-melt and a McRib for supper!!! :o
Their McCafe offerings are really quite good, and it is a directed attack on Starbucks, which is great because we hate Starbucks standard roast and are none too fond of their blond.
And yet, I love them. They should just stick to their core products. Their specialty crap I could do without. I don’t go to McD’s for specialty burgers. I go for the mainstays. Well, that and the $2 jalapeno double burger they’ve had on-and-off for the past few months.
Starbucks standard roast has been okay, in my opinion, since they’ve moved to that Pike’s Place blend or whatever they call it. Their old one was burnt, but not so much the new one. Not a huge fan of the blond. For that style, I go to Dunkin Donuts.