Wilder Shaw / Cheapism
Whether it’s because you love it the most, it’s the only place open, or it’s the closest place to your house, you’ve ended up at Burger King for breakfast. What should you get this morning? (Not iced coffee, that’s for sure.)
I rolled through my local Burger King — before 10:30 a.m., of course — and grabbed one of every sandwich, plus the two burritos. Here are eight of the most popular breakfast options at Burger King, ranked from best to worst.
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If you were to compare Burger King’s frozen eggs to the fresh eggs McDonald’s uses for its McMuffins, the King is miles behind. However, these eggs are actually a whole lot better than the frozen eggs McDonald’s uses for its non-McMuffin items. That lands BK's eggs somewhere in the upper tier of frozen fast-food eggs.
The biscuit holds together well without crumbling, and sausage is the best of the breakfast meats that BK has on offer. Bottom line: We sort of have the A-Team here.
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At less than half the price of the big burrito, this is the Burger King breakfast burrito you want to choose. It also comes with sausage, which is a lot better than the bacon available (you’ll hear all about that pretty soon), and a crispy hash brown.
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I don’t mind Burger King’s ham, but if you’re expecting a Canadian bacon patty like other chains might serve, think again. These breakfast sandwiches just come with a single piece of lunch meat-style ham. It’s honestly hard to taste, and gets lost in the egg, cheese, and either the biscuit or the croissant. That said, it’s not bad, and it’s far better than the bacon.
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I am not a person who likes breakfast sandwiches on croissants. They are usually too sweet and too flaky to make a good sandwich bread, in my oh-so humble opinion. This one is nowhere near the flakiness of a real croissant, and is more like a spongy bun. The sweetness is there, (probably too much), and at the end the croissant is the vast majority of what you can taste.
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We’ve got the same problems here as we do for the sausage Croissan’wich, but because the ham is so thin and slight, it’s lost immediately in the sea of eggs, cheese, and croissant-bun-roll-hybrid. If you’re getting one of the meats on the Croissan’wich, make it the sausage patty so you can at least taste the thing.
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Here’s the thing about Burger King’s bacon: I hate it. It’s extremely chewy, extremely fatty, and salted into oblivion. The sweet, Flubber-esque croissant bread helps to balance it out, and in this form, it’s the most tolerable.
$5.09
About double the size of the Burrito Jr., the Egg-Normous burrito comes in a much larger tortilla and is stuffed with bacon. That bacon is a plague, man. I’d rather get the smaller burrito with sausage any time. Or, if I’m extra hungry, two small burritos — which would still be cheaper than this thing.
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The biscuit provides the least room for the bacon to hide, landing this sandwich at the bottom of our list. I can really taste the bacon here. Perhaps there is an audience out there for Burger King’s bacon; perhaps it’s the same people who like country ham. I don’t know. I just know it’s not me.
Also, if I may: Look at this thing. Who made this? Extremely bad job assembling this sandwich. Come on. I know you’ve got a better one in you.