Allen of Damn Good Reviews makes a breakfast sandwich from start to finish with the Hamilton Beach Breakfast Sandwich Maker. How did it work -- watch and find out? www.damngoodreviews.com
Using PAM will prevent the egg from sticking and seems to create a perfect round shape. I use sliced cheese but cut the corners to fit within the bottom bread. Bagel thins are great too! Great demo...thanks!
I have this thing and it's great. It's one device instead of using a pan, toaster, toaster over, microwave, tuna can, rubber egg ring, or whatever other combination that the people complaining about " just use a pan", "I can do it in my microwave", "mine looks neater" would use. You put the ingredients in and it 5 minutes it's done. No checking the eggs or toast, flipping eggs, assembling the sandwich, etc. I'm not saying that making a breakfast sandwich is difficult, but this just makes it easier with less mess and tools that I have to use. I have 2 young kids that I need to cook for and watch while cooking and this is great as I can keep my attention on them and just let this thing do the work.
I made the same mistakes you made in this review on my first sandwich too. Seasoning? Don't forget some salt and pepper. A little butter on the bread works wonders. And one last thing...put the egg in and lower the cover for a couple minutes until the egg hardens, then put the bread on top. If you put the bread on runny egg it molds together as it heats and that is weird. These steps produce a sandwich which, to me, is way better than the $3.49 one you get at the fast food window for about $.50 Once you have it down it is super fast to make a sandwich.
+Kjohn034 50 cents? That's a bit of a stretch. The average cost of a dozen large eggs is about $3, average cost of English muffins is about $2.50, a package of American cheese is about $2.99 and a package of Canadian bacon is about $4. So roughly, $0.25 for the egg, $0.42 for the muffin, 0$.25 for the cheese and $0.50 for the Canadian bacon. That brings the total to roughly $1.42 plus tax and whatever it cost you in electricity. Close to 2 bucks. Far from the $0.50 you try to claim.
I love my breakfast maker, thanks for posting this video. I like to lightly butter the muffin on the sides that touch the cooking plates. Scrambled egg makes a beautiful sandwich without the mess of sticking to the plates. Much easier than using a toaster and a skillet, cleanup is quick.
Season your egg before closing the top. It's easier. I've found that putting the cheese on the bottom and then place the meat on the cheese will be less messy as the cheese melts into the muffin instead of running off, or sticking to the lid on top of the cheese /meat. Very easy clean up. I've not had one egg stick dry paper towel works, I'd needed to wipe off.
Thanks for the nice review. So, if I want a Sausage McMuffin, do I spread raw bulk sausage on the bottom half or do I need to cook my sausage patty first and then begin the Hamilton Beach process?
Thanks for telling me, my sandwitches kept getting stuck, I was going to return it and I had the double one and it cost more than the single one until I saw this comment because my single one worked good but I had it scense like forever and someone I know put spray on it and it worked great until I started using ny double one because I like the sandwitches alot and when I used the double one, the sandwitches would get stuck but when I made a sandwitch using my single one, the sandwitches would not get stuck and now I know why the sandwitches don't get stuck anymore and now I am happy and now im goung to go makr two sandwitches right now because I really really like them.
have you ever made 2 pancakes to make a pancake like sandwich? and if you did, did you have to flip the pancake? I'd like to see someone demo this. I'd like to know if there is an economical way of using this little sandwich maker.
Do not use metal utinsels. Also, only cooks for 4-5 minutes, not 10 minutes to cook a sandwich. Perhaps 5 minutes prep time, including warmup of unit, then 4-5 minutes actual cooking time.
how did you get the egg to cook fully through? I tried it and put it on for 5 minutes (I used a timer) and the egg didn't cook fully (I did brake the yoke). it turned out good bit the egg wasn't cooked fully.
When I got this for Xmas I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. Now I use it because I don't have a stove so it comes in handy for cooking eggs. I have issues trusting it to fully cook the egg with the bread on top so I leave it off. Good video!
That's a lot longer than it would take to do it in a pan, especially considering that you have to cook the bacon beforehand. I'd probably make a pound of bacon ahead of time so I could just throw it all on. But seriously... Use an old tuna can as an egg ring, toast your muffin in the toaster... simpler and faster.
+Damn Good Reviews I think Lincoln Ho is right. Since I can start my toaster w the English muffin and have that toasted (rather than this machine, which does not toast the bread) in three minutes, during that three minutes I could cook the egg in the microwave with a plastic egg tray. Boom, put them together, add bacon and cheese (which, if one likes melted, they could add to the egg and give it 15 seconds in the microwave again), whole sandwich, done in three-four minutes. Clean up? Put the microwave egg tray in the dishwasher. lol And, as my toaster and the microwave are on timers, no watching the clock like this Hamilton Beach jobbie. This device looks like one of those that sounds great on paper, but that no one will continue to use in reality. Your review helped me see that, so I thank you for it. I'm gonna sub your channel so you can save me even more money. Thanks!
