Easiest Bacon-Egg-Cheese Breakfast Muffin

This is actually fast enough to do for breakfast on a work day, and MAN, is it good.
Get some good coffee and brew it at home.
Bacon-Egg-Cheese Breakfast Muffin - yum!
Way better than drive-through.

Step 1 Assemble ingredients

We're talking seriously easy here and delicious!!

First, go to a breakfast buffet and buy a bunch of bacon that was left over from breakfast.  You can get a great deal on a bunch of bacon, and then just keep it in the freezer in a plastic freezer bag. Use as desired.  Like now.
Second, purchase an microwavable egg poacher/cooker with a lid.  See photo.  Mine is a NordicWare Egg 'N' Muffin. Just a couple of bux at Walmart.

Gather up an English muffin, an egg, 2 pieces of pre-cooked bacon, a couple of tablespoons of milk or equivalent and a slice of cheese (your choice).
Get a fork to stir the egg.
Put aside a paper plate and a paper towel.

Comments

[Braddo_99]

So im not understanding the buffet bacon thing. Do you go at closing time and ask for whats left? Or just ask to buy a bunch? Im curious what the going rate is for a bag of bacon? I like your method - no one likes to clean up after bacon!

[marthabees]

I usually hit 'em up about the time the buffet is closing down and the lunch buffet is going up. When I ask for the bacon, I often get kinda strange responses because how do you price a big to-go box of bacon?!? One person decided to charge me the "to go" price by weight, one decided to charge me the cost of one buffet meal, and one just said "$3" and the next time he didn't remember and said "$5". What a deal! I think the most logical price is the single buffet price.

Cooked bacon freezes really well, btw. I keep it in a big ziploc and sqeeze as much air out of the bag as possible.

Enjoy!!

[ytashi]

hmmm... its 3.28pm (yes.. p.m.) here and i want me some breakfast.. (erm.. sans the bacon but eggs looks yummy!)

[justin.jackson]

this looks super easy, super tasty and just flat out awesome. But that tip about getting leftover bacon from the buffet alone was worth my vote.

[marthabees]

Thank you! I kinda thought it was a great tip for the REAL bacon-lover. So easy to get to (from the freezer - how hard is that?!?) and use and someone else gets to clean!!

[justin.jackson]

tell me though, because Ive been thinking about getting one for a while, how is the taste of the egg when cooked in the microwave?

[Oldbear]

You just miss the "fried in a pan" taste. If you cook with teflon pans, it won't be much different... I cook with cast iron pans, so I get more flavor. But in a normal weekday, with three adults and three kids in the house - egg day is sped up with technology.

[marthabees]

I think that for application it's just fine. Tastes "real" to me.

[Oldbear]

We make these on a lot of week day mornings. But we have an old coffee mug we use. Two eggs, splash of milk, homemade bacon bits, pepper and hot sauce. Beat together and microwave for 1.30 mins in our new microwave...

Love the instructable and the not supporting McD's crappy frozen/reheated breakfasts.

[jdowns1]

I like that idea, too. I don't buy bacon because the packages are too big. Great idea!

[justin.jackson]

I just make the entire 1lb package and then freeze whatever i dont eat then.

[marthabees]

That works too, but when I go to the buffet, I don't have to wash anything, deal with splatters and house smells, AND the restaurant typically cuts me a deal cuz they'd just have to throw out the bacon. At least this way, they get SOME money out of it.

[jdowns1]

Great idea! Thanks!