Really Really Really Easy Meals #7 - Egg McMuffins
First, take a tuna can that has been emptied and cleaned out of tuna and take both ends off of it so it is simply a round cylinder. Put it in the center of your frying pan and put a little butter or a bit of cooking spray at the bottom.
Put an egg or two in there and break up the yolk with a fork. Pour just a little bit of water on the outside of it to create a little mote on the outside of the hollowed out tuna can but inside the pan lip.
Let the egg harden and remove the tuna can “shell” and WAH-LA! You have a perfectly round egg thing to put in between an English muffin. Just add a slice of cheese and maybe some ham lunch meat or a Jimmy Dean sausage patty and you have yourself a pretty stellar breakfast.
Don’t have time to cook it on the stove? Maybe you are like me and you did not have a stove in college. No worries, just spray the inside of a coffee cup with cooking spray, break your egg into it and break the yolk again. Put a piece of plastic wrap over the top or a flip top sandwich bag and microwave for about 2 minutes. Let it cool for a second, take it out, dump it upside down on your English Muffin and you have pretty much the same thing as the stove-top version.
I got two Egg McMuffins and an orange juice at McDonald’s the other day and it cost me over 6 DOLLARS! I guarantee this is cheaper and tastes a whole heck of a lot more fresh. Thanks again for joining me for another episode of meals that even dumb-asses like myself can cook! Enjoy!!!
Just a little side note here…
I tried the coffee cup version a couple weeks ago, and after about a minute, the egg exploded in my microwave and blew the saran wrap right off the top of the cup. It look like someone had vomited egg all over the inside of the microwave.
My suggestion is to use the saran wrap but poke a few holes in the top. And really, about 50 seconds will do it in a newer microwave.
But yes, they are so yummy!!!!!!
Comment by Kim — June 17, 2008 @ 6:04 am
YikeS! I guess I have never had that happen before. I always just lay a sandwich bacg over the top so I guess it doesn’t form a tight seal and get too hot.
Comment by Andy — June 17, 2008 @ 9:25 am
…perfectly round egg thing…
This cracked me up!
Seriously, neat ideas but why go through the trouble of making a near-perfect “round egg thing” unless you want it to be round?
Comment by Ari Herzog — June 17, 2008 @ 11:10 am
You could also use a metal cookie cutter instead of a tuna can. Maybe a have a Christmas tree-shaped egg?
Comment by Jarrod — June 17, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
I got me a set of egg rings a while ago, and they are wonderful. I simply coat the insides of the rings with a touch of butter right before cracking an egg into each ring, and then I take a rubber spatula and break each yolk, then put in a small amount of water in between the rings, and place a lid on the skillet. The eggs come out perfectly cooked, and just like McDonalds McMuffin eggs. Sweet!
I like your version too, Andy! My wife makes breakfast sandwiches very much like what you outlined above minus the tuna. She uses Canadian bacon. Man, I love me some Canadian bacon. It smells sooooo good when it’s sizzlin’ in the skillet.
Best -
Braden
Comment by Braden — June 17, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
HAHA, I don’t use Tuna on my Egg McMuffins! I just use the tuna can as my “egg ring.” LOL.
Comment by Andy — June 17, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
Hmmmm, I bet my wife would like that recipe, though. I’ll forward this to her.
Comment by Braden — June 17, 2008 @ 8:00 pm