"What if every breakfast was an instant breakfast?"
Everyone seems to want an instant breakfast. Carnation had an item called Instant Breakfast. After I tried it, my thought was that breakfast didn't need to be that instant.
Just Crack an Egg wants your breakfast to be an instant breakfast in about 2 minutes. Ore-Ida supplies potatoes, cheese, breakfast meats, and vegetables combined with an egg (egg not included).
In the regular world, you would crack an egg or two with leftover cut up potatoes, small amounts of meat, cheese, mushrooms, and peppers to make an omelet.
The commercial sells you on the story of an egg, a very boring and lonely egg. The woman stares at the egg waiting for a magic show. The egg does nothing and stays in the refrigerator.
Just Crack an Egg can solve all your breakfast problems, provided that you have an egg. The product combines these secondary ingredients into a breakfast bowl completed with a microwaved scrambled egg. In about 2 minutes, you have an instant breakfast.
If you had a few more minutes, you could fix a really nice omelet with those same ingredients.
A breakfast bowl is a far hipper collection of food than an omelet would be. I tried the product with a few modifications:
- I don't have a microwave oven.
- I want my eggs to be fluffy.
- I would rather have the potatoes and cheese on the side.
So how well did Just Crack an Egg perform?
For our test run, we tried the Ultimate Scramble because I wanted to include vegetables and avoid mozzarella cheese. You get 3 separate containers: cooked pork sausage, cheddar cheese, and a wet collection of potatoes, peppers, and onions. Each individual pack doesn't look like much but the combined effort produces a decent amount of food.
I threw the sausage, potatoes, peppers, and onions into a pan to saute. I cooked the egg separately. I kept the cheese to the side.
The finished product, though deconstructed, looks like a decent but very light breakfast.
The sausage is quite tasty, very mild but adds a lot of flavor lacking in the rest of the dish. The cheddar cheese is rather good. The peppers and onions are in the dish but you can barely taste them. The potatoes are underdone and look very odd being that white. Crisp potatoes would have helped the flavor a lot.
The Rustic Scramble has more veggies. The All-American Scramble has no veggies. The Denver Scramble offers ham instead of sausage. You do get plenty of protein even without the egg. The mixture could use a lot more flavor and texture elsewhere.
Without the product, you could combine some nice veggies, even mushrooms and peppers, with leftover sausage to have a nice omelet. Just Crack an Egg isn't a nice omelet. It's an okay omelet. If you had to use this product, bring more fresh vegetables along with the protein and add an extra egg to the mix.
If you cook on a fairly regular basis, you will have the necessary leftovers to mix with a egg to form an omelet for a far cheaper price. If you have only this bowl with an egg and a microwave, you will have food. Just not great food but slightly better food than you would expect from such a product.
photo credits: me
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