$8.48 to $8.88 covers the two sandwiches in a Mc10:35, at 700 calories together.
A McDonald's Mc10:35 is an Egg McMuffin and a McDouble bought in the few minutes when both are being sold, then stacked into one sandwich. Priced from the two menu items, that is $4.89 or $4.99 plus $3.59 or $3.89, so $8.48 to $8.88, carrying 700 calories. The name is the clock, not a recipe. Timing decides whether it works, and the cut-off is set restaurant by restaurant.
Egg McMuffin price and calories · McDouble price and calories · McDonald's secret menu — grill orders and what they cover · Land Air and Sea — three sandwiches, one total
What you need
8 itemsWhat the two halves cost
| Build | Components and prices | Total and calories |
|---|---|---|
| Standard Mc10:35 | Egg McMuffin $4.89 or $4.99 + McDouble $3.59 or $3.89 | $8.48 to $8.88 · 700 Cal |
| Cheaper breakfast half | Sausage McMuffin $2.99 or $3.99 + McDouble $3.59 or $3.89 | $6.58 to $7.88 · 790 Cal |
| For scale, a whole meal | Sausage McMuffin Meal Deal, sandwich with Hash Browns and coffee | $4.00 · 545 Cal |
How it works
Turn up while both menus are live
Restaurants switch from breakfast to the main menu at a time the operator sets. Arrive in the wrong ten minutes and one half of this simply cannot be sold to you.
Ask for the breakfast item first
Order the Egg McMuffin, then the McDouble. Breakfast is what is about to disappear from the till, so it is the half worth securing while the option is still there.
Do the stacking at the table
Lift the beef patties and cheese onto the muffin, or the egg onto the bun. Either version is the same food and neither asks the kitchen for anything it does not already make.
Price it against a breakfast meal deal before deciding
A Sausage McMuffin Meal Deal was priced by the company at $4.00 for the sandwich, Hash Browns and a small coffee. Against $8.48 at best for this stack, the comparison is not close.
Take a no without pushing
Once the grills are switched over, breakfast is gone until the next morning and no amount of asking brings it back. Crew cannot ring up an item the system has retired for the day.
If something goes wrong
Breakfast had already stopped
- Cause
- The changeover happens at a time the operator chooses, not a national one
- Fix
- Come back earlier tomorrow. Nothing on the till can reopen a retired breakfast menu, and the crew are not withholding it.
Lunch had not started yet
- Cause
- Some restaurants run the two menus back to back with no overlap at all
- Fix
- Ask when the main menu opens and wait it out, or take the breakfast half on its own.
The name got a blank look
- Cause
- No US till has ever carried it and crew are trained on grill orders instead
- Fix
- Ask for an Egg McMuffin and a McDouble. Both names are on the board and the request stops being unusual.
It cost nearly nine dollars
- Cause
- Two sandwiches at two sandwich prices, with nothing taken off
- Fix
- That is the arithmetic working correctly. If the total matters more than the novelty, a breakfast meal deal at $4.00 buys more food.
The app would not show both menus
- Cause
- The app follows the same changeover as the counter
- Fix
- Order in two taps while both sections are live, or order at the counter where a crew member can see both screens.
The egg went cold before the beef arrived
- Cause
- Breakfast items are held and grill items are cooked, so they finish at different moments
- Fix
- Assemble it straight away rather than carrying it home. This build does not travel well in either order.
What’s fixed, and what actually varies
Two sandwiches, one clock. The prices are knowable and the window is not.
Fixed
- The build is an Egg McMuffin and a McDouble, bought as two items
- Both are permanent US menu items with published calorie counts
- 700 calories is 310 plus 390, both McDonald's own figures
- No till carries a combined item, so there is no combined price
- Once breakfast closes at a restaurant, the breakfast half is unavailable
Varies
- The Egg McMuffin, tied at $4.89 or $4.99 in published US listings
- The McDouble, tied at $3.59 or $3.89
- The changeover time, which each operator sets for its own restaurant
- How long the overlap lasts, which can be minutes or nothing at all
- Whether a franchisee runs breakfast later at weekends
Open the McDonald's app with your restaurant selected shortly before the changeover and watch which menus are showing. When both sections are still tappable, the window is open and the basket total answers the price question at the same time. That check takes seconds and beats guessing from a published time, since a franchisee sets its own.
A name that is really a timestamp
Most secret-menu names describe food. This one describes a moment. Breakfast at a US McDonald's ends and the main menu begins, and for a short stretch either side of that switch a till can sell both. The nickname simply records a minute somewhere inside it.
What gets bought is unremarkable. An Egg McMuffin is a toasted English muffin, a round egg, a slice of Canadian-style bacon and a slice of cheese, at 310 calories. A McDouble is two beef patties with cheese, at 390. Stack them and the result is 700 calories in one hand.
Pricing is where the published guides go soft. An Egg McMuffin was recorded at $4.89 or $4.99, tied, on a band running from $4.29 to $7.29 across restaurants. Three dollars separates the cheapest reading from the dearest, for one sandwich built to a single national specification. A McDouble ties too, at $3.59 or $3.89. So the pair costs $8.48 at the bottom and $8.88 at the top, and neither figure is a bundle price, because no bundle exists.
The comparison that hurts is against McDonald's own breakfast pricing. A Sausage McMuffin Meal Deal was set by the company at $4.00 for a sandwich, Hash Browns and a small coffee, 545 calories in total, with the usual note that prices and participation vary. Eight-fifty for two sandwiches is more than twice that.
Asking for it by name will not help. Crew handle grill orders, meaning changes to a listed item, and the app exposes the modifiers the company has configured rather than an assembly nobody has built a record for. The 2022 Menu Hacks run showed what an official version looks like, with four combinations tappable in the app for a while, and this was not among them. Ordering the two sandwiches, in the right ten minutes, is the whole technique.
Questions people ask
What is a Mc10:35?
An Egg McMuffin and a McDouble combined into one sandwich, bought during the overlap when a restaurant is still selling breakfast and has already started lunch.
How much does it cost?
$8.48 to $8.88. That is $4.89 or $4.99 for the Egg McMuffin plus $3.59 or $3.89 for the McDouble, with both components tied at two recorded values.
Why 10:35?
The number is folklore rather than policy. It points at the minutes after breakfast is meant to stop, and each restaurant sets that time for itself.
Can I order it in the app?
Not as one item. You can add both sandwiches to a basket while the two menus are showing, which is the same thing without the name.
How many calories are in it?
700, being McDonald's own 310 for the Egg McMuffin and 390 for the McDouble. Nothing is removed when the two are stacked.
Is there a cheaper version?
Swapping to a Sausage McMuffin at $2.99 or $3.99 brings the pair down to $6.58 or $7.88, though it adds calories rather than saving them.
Are these prices official?
Only the $4.00 meal deal figure came from the company. The rest was recorded from published US listings on 19 August 2026, and franchisees price their own boards.