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Alleged McDonald’s Employee “Exposes” How Its Eggs Are Cooked—But It Might Be A Hoax

Are you mentally and emotionally ready to have your McDonald’s breakfast sandwich ruined? You might not eat one for a while, so this is probably the safest time to find out how the fast-food franchise cooks their eggs. You’ll have plenty of time to forget.

The video showing the egg cooking process at Mickey D’s comes courtesy of TikTok user @sean_ford. The short clips shows what is allegedly an employee putting three uncooked eggs cracked onto a tray into a microwave oven. When they’re removed, they look exactly like the eggs featured on the Egg McMuffin. 

“Oh no the secret is out,” the video is captioned.

@sean_fordOh no the secret is out 🤪##mcdonalds ##food ##fyp ##fypage♬ Savage – Megan Thee Stallion


On the tray raw:

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On the tray cooked:

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Horrifying. But as the TikTok video grows in popularity, a number of people are contesting the veracity of the microwave cooking.

Some people claiming to have worked in McDonald’s say that they know for a FACT that every McMuffin contains an egg lovingly cooked on the grill:

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It is also personally suspicious to me that each one of those three eggs is magically coming out of the oven in a perfect circle even though they were loose and flopping around in the tray before the person putting them in there hit the cook button. It seems like they’d come out a big, tray shaped mess, so I suspect a switcheroo in the video editing process.

That said, there are a number of ways to cook eggs in the microwave, so doing so wouldn’t be too outlandish for a fast food joint trying to speed up their McMuffin line:

Either way, there are so many other horrifying kitchen, worker, and food practices happening under the McDonald’s arches that microwaved eggs are the least of their problems. 

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