Upgrade Your McDonald's Egg McMuffin With A Simple Ordering Request

Probably the most emblematic item on the morning menu, McDonald's signature breakfast sandwich, the Egg McMuffin, is an undeniable classic. It's often considered one of the best fast food breakfast items you can get your hands on, and for good reason. It's the only McDonald's breakfast sandwich that comes with a fresh egg that blends perfectly with salty Canadian bacon, melty cheese, and a toasted, buttery English muffin. Even so, you can up the flavor of your McMuffin with one simple request: Ask for extra butter.

Part of what makes this hack taste so good is that McDonald's uses real butter on its muffins. Unlike margarine, which McDonald's switched from in 2015, butter is richer and creamier because it's made out of, well, real milk and cream. Adding extra butter to your Egg McMuffin will bring out more salty flavor and a bit of subtle nuttiness. It will also give a nicely enhanced chewy texture, as the butter permeates the nooks and crannies inside the toaster, which is especially good if you find a regular Egg McMuffin to be a little on the dry side. You can even order this hack directly in the McDonald's app, so it's a super simple and tasty upgrade you can get with no added time or effort.

Extra butter also goes great with another one of the best McMuffin upgrades — slipping a hash brown between the bread. The added crunch is great with the extra chewy muffin, and the butter and fried potato flavor tie together beautifully. For some spicy flavor, try McDonald's Spicy Buffalo Sauce with your expanded creation. Buffalo sauce typically uses butter, but it's not one of the ingredients in McDonald's (soybean oil is used instead), so the added dairy might just be the component it needs to make it truly shine.

If an Egg McMuffin isn't your thing, but you want more melty butter goodness on your breakfast sandwich, you can order extra on a Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit or Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel. Just like on the English muffin, the biscuit does a great job of taking on the butter. And when you have it with your steak sandwich, it almost gives it a bit of a steakhouse feel. As for the steak sando, if you want to go completely out of the box and put your foot slightly more inside the steakhouse door, get a side of McDonald's Creamy Ranch Sauce to pour over it. At first, it may sound a little strange for breakfast, but the rich tanginess of the ranch with the steak and grilled onions makes a great mix that's not too overpowering for the morning. However you choose to go with your breakfast butter upgrade, it makes an easy addition that can bring whole new dimensions of flavor.