The directions begin with "Open carton. Position open sandwich to match image on left." Since it is a frozen product, I have to wonder why this first direction? While in transit from the distribution center to store, could it have been tampered with? Were the eggs and bacon doing the rumba when no one was watching? After checking to see it matched the photo, I closed up the carton and microwaved it for 90 seconds, then let it rest for 1 minute as instructed.
As you can see in the above photo, it looks almost exactly like it does on the box; but is it the same? I needed a knife to pry the sides of the biscuit off the silvery lining it sat upon while microwaving; that's a negative. The bacon was crisp; that's a plus. The cheese was not totally melted and oozing all over the place like with other brands of breakfast sandwiches, but it was still on the cold side; that's a neutral. The eggs were not frozen, but still too cold to eat and liquid oozed out when bitten into; that's a negative.
The second sandwich was microwaved an additional 15 seconds; eggs were warmer, but the biscuit was totally stuck to the silvery lining and hard as a rock.
Third sandwich was microwaved for the recommended 90 seconds; however I removed the eggs and microwaved them separately on a separate dish; so a two step cooking process. Third time was the charm!!!
The package information states the product was tested in an 1100 watt microwave; mine is a bit more powerful, so you would have thought that it would have been just about perfect on the first try. Nope!
Until I can find a breakfast product that cooks up perfectly and tastes great on the first try; I guess I'll be getting up earlier to cook up my own. Sorry Marie Callender, but I'm considering this new product a fail.
Mary Cokenour
I love breakfast sandwiches and i eat one in some form or another almost every day. I too have tried all the major brands and they either turn out terrible or hard as a rock or just taste plain bad. I don't know where you are from but here on the east coast USA we have a store called WaWA that make some really great breakfast sandwiches that are baked in a big oven. WaWa were the only breakfast sandwiches she would touch before we found the marie callenders
ReplyDeleteI really have to say i completely and totally disagree with your review. The two marie callenders i tried were the sausage egg and cheese on a croissant and the bacon egg and cheese on a biscuit. Since discovering them at the grocery store last month i have pprobably had close to 2 dozen of them. Both kinds are delicious and cooked perfectly without any problems or getting hard or not cooking all the way through. Even my wife loves them which is rare.
Perhaps they have revised the product by the time i wrote this reply. The bacon on a biscuit cook time is 1 min 30 sec and the sausage on a croissant is 1 min 40sec. Which are both different from your posted cook times. When the directions are followed the biscuit turns out flaky, the bacon is crispy, the cheese is just melty enough and the egg is cooked all the way through (i just ate one 5 minutes ago). So like i said, i don't know if the product has been revised since you wrote your review or if maybe your microwave just sucks cause these things are damn good
I remember WaWa's being in NJ mostly; in PA we had Sheetz; having breakfast sandwiches baked up fresh is always a better experience than what comes out of a microwave.
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