This week I reached out for a Breakfast Burger, now available all day at Carl’s Jr., the westward-ho half of the Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s two-headed monster, with 1,400 restaurants sweeping from Louisiana leftward.

While hamburger king McDonald’s is making breakfast available all day, Carl’s Jr. is pulling a switcheroo, making hamburgers available for breakfast. And it’s a clever, tricked-out, breakfast-y burger.

Here’s the Breakfast Burger breakdown: a charbroiled all-beef patty, American cheese, ketchup, bacon, scrambled eggs and hash browns on a sesame-seed bun.

Total calories: 830. Fat grams: 44. Sodium: 1,540 mg. Carbs: 68 g. Dietary fiber: 3 g. Protein: 39 g. Manufacturer’s suggested retail price: $4.39. A double-meat-patty version goes for $5.69. A 1/3-pound model with Black Angus beef is $5.69. And combo meals with fries and a soda start at $6.79.

A burger-breakfast mashup is nothing new, especially in Europe, where a sunny-side-up egg is a common, and quite delicious, topping. For some, once they’ve had a burger covered with runny, drippy egg yolk, well, there’s no turning back. I said, “for some.”

Carl’s Jr. introduced this Breakfast Burger in 2004, but now it’s back and available all day for the first time.

This looks like a breakfast buffet on a bun, plus a burger, and that looks pretty good to me. It’s got a shopping list of ingredients and a big bellyful of calories and fat grams, but it will hold you till lunch, even a late lunch, and possibly beyond.

Look, nobody’s pretending this is a lean, mean, fightin’, low-calorie, healthful breakfast. It’s a big’un, for big appetites, but heck, swimsuit season is still months away, so why not?

The thing is, every component in this sandwich goes together and compliments the others. The scrambled egg goes with bacon, bacon goes with a burger, the burger goes with ketchup, ketchup completes hash browns. And the cheese stands alone. Who doesn’t love cheese on anything? It’s like a chain reaction, and the finished product is a mountain of breakfast on a bun.

If you’re a breakfast fan who loves burgers, this is over-the-top made just for you, two meals in one. It fits in one hand, too, for easy mobile eating. You don’t have to drive around with a McMuffin on your lap and hash browns in one cup holder (cell phone in the other). You’ve got it all in one mitt. Now you can steer with a free hand.

Just don’t tell me how you push the radio buttons. I don’t want to know.