We tasted everything on Taco Bell's most overlooked menu — here's the verdict

The Tex-Mex fast-food chain with a reputation for being a popular — ahem — late-night food destination does in fact have a breakfast menu.

Think about it: eggs, salsa, cheese, tortillas... Tex-Mex is tailor made for breakfast.

The menu is available till 11am, which is good news for those who like to get a bit of extra sleep. But what to order from this oft-overlooked morning option?

Limited-time offers aside (I'm still mourning the loss of the Breakfast Quesalupas), here are the breakfast menu items ranked from worst to best.

13. Bacon Breakfast Burrito

A deadly surge of hot, incredibly salty cheese with some slight bacon debris engulfed the first bite of this. In moderation, the liquid cheese Taco Bell uses is fine — one might even go so far as to say it's good. But when confronted with a flow of such magnitude, the cheese runs rampant, mercilessly trampling the taste buds. This burrito is outrageously salty, and it tastes as though it may be actively undermining my health.

12. Sausage Quesadilla

Very thin — very, very, thin, both in profile and taste.

All fast-food items need a raison d'être, a solid logic and purpose to its being. This has none apparent; it is an inconsequential pancake of tortilla, meat, egg, and cheese. The quesadilla cools rapidly, leaving it a congealed, clammy slab. Plus, there's a solid inch of solitary tortilla around the edges — the dreaded quesadilla no man's land.

11. Bacon Quesadilla

See above. I would steer clear of the quesadillas, unless you take joy in... the lack thereof. It's the hair shirt of the Taco Bell breakfast menu.

10. Bacon Crunchwrap

9. Cinnabon Delights

Little orbs of sugar-dusted terror filled with a thick icing colloid that makes dental hygienists the world over shudder and quake in fear. If you're into a straight sugar injection in the morning, then go for it. But be forewarned: I will judge you.

8. Sausage Grilled Breakfast Burrito

Three bites in, and no sausage to be had. After trying the other side, the salty little gray chunks of meat emerge after two bites, but they are far and few between.

This suffers from the same salty surge as the bacon version, and the same deleterious aura. Eat only when absolutely necessary, and even then, reconsider.

7. Mini Skillet Bowl

6. Sausage Crunchwrap

5. Bacon Grande Scrambler

As with most of the bacon items on the menu, it's incredibly salty. However, the brackishness is tempered by the potato, egg, and sour cream — it's actually decent. But as before, the bacon bits instead of strips makes for spotty distribution.

4. Sausage Grande Scrambler

A step above the bacon version, with some flavorful bite coming from the sausage. I wouldn't say it shines the brightest, but it's a fair choice. Once again, major saltiness comes into play, but it’s not as much of a saline slam as the bacon Grande Scrambler.

3. Steak Crunchwrap

2. Fiesta Potato Grilled Breakfast Burrito

Now this is... good.

The potatoes are more satisfying and flavorful than both meat options. It's filling and rich without being heavy or too much to handle. The egg-potato-cheese ratio is spot on and the pico de gallo works well in this context, adding some pops of juicy tomato to the savory, starchy mix.

1. Steak Grande Scrambler

Large, filling, oddly satisfying. The Grande Scrambler is a melodious melange of every fast-food breakfast offering wrapped in a tortilla: meat, eggs, and potatoes, combined with the Taco Bell Tex-Mex mainstays of pico de gallo, nacho cheese, and sour cream. Taco Bell's steak holds a delicious spicy note which cuts through the starchy potatoes and smooth egg. By far the most rounded and guiltily delicious item.