We Have Oatmeal

wow. i'd go in

That's something!!!

Hello, my name is 2 dollars.

some wiseass should stick one on that says
hello, my name is oatmeal

if i knew where this store was i wld be that wiseass

Please, no pooches, though. Also, hostage stamps available here.

Oatmeal is the only thing I want to eat lately.

Oatmeal still my BFF. Eat you for every meal if I could, oatmeal.

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20110106-oatmeal-500.jpg

a picture of McDonald's oatmeal

It looks like a milkshake!

"at 18 g of sugar per 250 g serving, it contains a fraction of the sugar than a comparable-sized portion of Quaker apples and cinnamon oatmeal (9 g per 35 g serving)"

wtf Quaker oats

That "per g" probably does not include gs of water though.

may i share w/you all a great oatmeal cooking method

water to boil
stir in oats
bring to boil
cover
turn off heat
let sit for ~15 mins~
serve yr perfect oatmeal

It's like couscous x3 amt of time!

the oats maintain their integrity and self respect this way, no weird gloopiness

also i dig these oats

http://grab.by/8hUR

I eat those every day, ice cr?m.
My mom buys them by the 50 lb. bag!

whoa!

I buy them by the 2 lb. bag like a regular mortal.

i had no idea that was a possibility - i wonder how long itd take me to eat 50lbs of oats

I guess my dad eats 2 cups (uncooked!) every morning. And there are also 5 other people in the house, all oatmeal fans. She tried to convince me that it is how I should go but it would take me, I calculated, 1.4 years to go through a 50 lb. bag. I would not be surprised if I one day got a 50 lb bag in the mail with a note like "so much cheaper this way, love mom."

haa

how does yr dad prepare his raw oats

By making my mom get up a half hour before he does.

badumdumcrash

srsly does he put some milk in there or what

+1 --> Abbott

it's just water and salt iirc – my family all eats their oatmeal salty.

wait yr saying the amount of oats he eats is two cups before cooking, and i thought you meant he east his oats raw, which would be weird

Yes, I am saying the dry volume is 2 cups, which is then added to an appropriate amount of hottt water. That is a fuckton of oatmeal.

According to the label, 1/2 cup dry (48 g) is a serving, which most non-horses cook.

i usually eat one cup + yogurt, sometimes fruit or honey/syrup

2 cups is like whaa

I like just a tiny bit of maple syrup in it, which comes from Trader Joe's in a wine bottle, leading a recent houseguest of mine to ask why I was pouring wine on my oatmeal when they saw me half awake making breakfast.

'plz dont talk to me before ive had my first drink'

Peter Applebome's "Bad Hemingway"

In the late summer of that year we lived in a condo in North Dallas that looked across the tollway to the discos and honky-tonks of the Rue St. Bubba. We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant.

"The Great Landry says the Cowboys will be back,'' said the girl.

"Then it must be so," I said, though I knew it was a lie.

"When football season comes, then it will be cold. Like Switzerland. But not now. The cold will come later.

"Pass the Doritos,'' I said, and her eyes shone like the stars

over Amarillo.

I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of

her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. And the pain was washed away, but the image of the woman stayed with me like a blessing and like a curse. We went that summer to many clubs. We went to the Longhorn

Ballroom and the Palm and to a honky-tonk in Fort Worth that was what Harry's Bar would have been like if it had eighty-five cent Pearl Beer and a barmaid whose peroxide hair could damage your eyes as if you had seen an eclipse. That night we visited them all, but as we drove home I did

not think of the Pearl Beer and I did not think of the peroxide. I did not think of the girl who sat beside me. I thought of the woman of the tollway and I could feel my heart pounding in the heat of the summer night.

"Stop the car," the girl said. There was a terrible look of

sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet peace I will never forget.

"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the

tollway belle's for thee."

The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.

How do the people feel abt steel-cut oats?

superior

just this very morning i had steel cut oats prepared as noted by ice cram above with a tsp of organic pb and some dates mixed in and o heaven

prefer rolled but steel cut are good too

i usually eat one cup + yogurt, sometimes fruit or honey/syrup

yah oatmeal w/ some yogurt is perfect... have this creamy banana kind right now thats p perfect

i put a shredded apple in my oatmeal

is it just me or is "oatmeal" not, in fact, "meal" (as in "cornmeal"); this has always bothered me

in the UK we eat PORRIDGE (to which i will sometimes spuriously add redundant ground oat groats (this i privately think of a "true oat meal"))

My parents visited me last weekend and brought me 25 lbs of Bob's Red Mill rolled oats! Best graduation gift ever.

wow!
you have oatmeal
for a long time!

this thread title/pic kills me

Have not read all of thread but can someone tell me how to shot oatmeal in my rice cooker with a timer?

you are halfway to the 50lb american dream :)

mmm oats

are oats for horses different from oats for people? can you save money buying horse oats?

http://www.peoplequiz.com/images/bios/Warren_Oates.jpg-1407.jpg

i go to whole foods once every two weeks & buy oatmeal there, for $5-6
it's the only place i know that sells oatmeal that's both quick-cook & steel-cut
this is the first period of my life in which i am really enjoying oatmeal, or the first since i was a kid, & ate something sorta similar but sugarier
i just have it with cinnamon

a guy who looks as far as i can tell identical to me works at the cheese counter, at the whole foods
the first time i saw him i dropped the oatmeal i was buying

I was just in midtown east today, maybe like somewhere in the 40s around second ave, and I passed this kind of junky shop crammed with sort of low-grade african and eastern art, like cheap touristy ganesha statuettes and african masks and stuff, and it had this handwritten "50% OFF" sign in the window but the sign was so old and yellowy that it looked like it had been up for 10 years.

been making slow cooked steelcut oatmeal & loving it soooo much

got a 5 pound bag from costco only to realize it was quick cooking steelcut

slowcooking them is ok if i cut the liquid & time down but it's not the same siiiigh
now i have to use them up

how long does slow cooking take?
the oatmeal i had in the cupboard at the onset of my adult contemporary oatmeal phase took a half hour, which is unbearable, i think, just unrealistic for a morning food unless you have a staff.

pre-soaking the night before can cut it down to 10-15 mins (depending on the consistency you like).

I tend to set my laptop beside the stove and do my morning internet browsing while making it. it's nice, a weird little ritual.

i would do the slowcook overnight for abt 6-7 hours

big pot full ready in the morning, lasts at least a few days if not a week

i remember reading a blog about the first five things you read in the morning, online, with this kinda techy crowd talking about the tabs they had pinned, sleepily browsing, & it really clicking reading somebody talking about waking up to coffee & twitter, this the first time that technology had been a part of a cute lil collocation, coffee and pie, tea and toast, something domestic rather than dystopian. & waking up & having coffee & reading twitter on my cellphone before i'm really fully able to focus, making myself read to the last Click to load more tweets with a probably unearned sense of dutifulness, like i'm tautening a newspaper between fingers to really engage with the world -- it's nice, it is a stoveside ritual. i think i am brushing my teeth while the oatmeal is cooking, though; it takes five minutes.

do you all really rep for non-quick-cook over quick cook? these are the kind i buy, they're really delicious:

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fleeting google image search taking me way into the deep oat web

http://coachlevi.com/images/steelcutoatsbuyingguide510.jpg

quick cook is fine but slow just is more satisfying to me somehow

http://www.quakeroats.com/espanol/img/logo-quaker-oats.png

works just fine

they are rolled though, right

Pro tip: buy a Zojirushi rice cooker (the kind that costs $150) with the clock and the timer

Put yr oats in the night before

With the water

Set yr timer to half an hour before you normally wake up

Set the menu to 'Porridge'

Hit 'Cook'

Yr oats will be done a half an hour before you

I have always wondered about the "porridge" setting on my rice cooker. I've never used the timer, either! Gonna up my rice cooker game this winter.

oh man, I was scrolling through wondering if anyone was going to rep for zojirushi

I admit I have not yet used that option, but in this winter time it seems like a good idea

i've used the zojirushi before but it's never quite right imo.

You can make it soupy or sludgy by adjusting the amount of the water

Day 3, for my health. Adding two Tb of peanut butter has honestly made them A LOT better. Splash of oat milk, dried fruit, pepitas.

The steel cut oats needed thorough rinsing, like rice, until the water ran clear. And then while cooking I again took a lot of cloudy water away and replaced it with fresh. They're much less glue-like. Also a good amount of salt obv.

Usually have porridge with a dollop of jam. Should try peanut butter!

My steel cut oats zero-effort method: Bring to the boil one cup of oats plus four cups of water plus 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Turn off heat and leave overnight. In the morning divide between four containers and keep in fridge until needed. I eat it with raisins and almond or sunflower seed butter stirred in.

Oh hmmm interesting. I guess my caution around food safety would discourage me from leaving something in that mid-range temp overnight but it's an interesting idea. Maybe less boiling/agitation makes it less gluey?

Oh I forgot to say that it should be covered when boiling and after.

I dunno what your definition of gluey is -- I mean, that's just how oatmeal is?

My oatmeal is not a pretty sight in the morning as there is some separation of oats and gloopy liquid which needs stirring together before I put it in containers.

yes! peanut butter in oatmeal is life! <3

I'm going for more like the texture of individual grains of al dente...rice? Sightly stickier rice? I know I'm working against the basic nature of oatmeal, I'm just trying to make it more appealing to me so I'll eat it.

The peanut butter thing is genuinely a revelation. It makes it more percentage better than it should for like the small amount of peanut butter actually added.

Maybe try eating oats more like muesli? Sometimes I have uncooked rolled oats plus raisins plus pinch of salt plus milk.

I do quick oats with low fat milk in the microwave, then scoop a heapnof yogurt and half an apple (or other seasonal fruit) on most days. Protein, fiber, carbs. Perfect breakfast

> I'm going for more like the texture of individual grains of al dente

My recipe for ~10 years now:

2/3 cups extra thick oatmeal
8-10 almonds
handful of raisins
~1/2 tablespoon of honey

Add water to the just below top of the oatmeal -- room temp is fine, but can be hot.
Add ~1/3 cup of (soy/oat) milk.
Mix and let sit until you find the right texture (which may be right away).

2/3 *extra thick rolled* oats, that is

gently toasting it in pan for a few min before adding liquid might help w separation/texture

my quick oats goes as follows:
1. mash banana with fork until baby safe
2. add oats, add water until oats are just submerged, mix it up
3. dollop of peanut butter on top of that
4. 1:30 on high in the microwave
5. add in strawberry jam bc i like to tempt the diabetes god

if you really wanna walk on the wild side you can throw some raisins in there too bc man, you know what this could use? something sweet.

i recently read over this thread and decided to roll the dice on the ice cr?m "15 minutes covered with stove off" method. thank you - it's a game-changer! i'm eating the best oatmeal of my life over here. I use almond milk instead of water, and then after cooking add a little butter, a bit of a cinnamon/turmeric/ginger spice blend, and a handful of nutty trail mix. mmmm.

oh - and a little brown sugar of course.

Still Team Peanut Butter!! I had to re-up my steel cuts and they were harder to find than I expected but we're back, baby.

just finished eating a bowl of steelcut oats w peanut butter! theee best

A slightly sticky hi 5!

Weird, I never eat oatmeal but elected to do so this morning, then saw this thread was bumped. I like steel-cut but have come back to rolled for expediency

I've started adding muscovado brown sugar and nutmeg to my oatmeal with a decent amount of salt and butter to balance and it's heaven in a bowl

nice thread, been doing oatmeal steady for 6mo or so now. am fairly simple - water, rolled, blueberries, butter+salt, sometimes maple syrup

^^this is usually what i do minus the butter, which i’ve never thought to add before now but would like to try! i also usually add a dusting of cinnamon

here i am with a nuevo cuisine entry but i put tj's instant oatmeal with "ancient grains" in the microwave then add a bunch of greek yogurt and some honey and mix it all up into chunky white gloop. it's gross-good. i should do actual cooked oatmeal with maple syrup and walnuts some time as a treat.

i finally realised after 20+ years of living in the UK that "pinhead" oats are... steelcut oats duh

I find butter and salt essential to good oatmeal, even if the former takes away from the nutritional benefits a bit.

I've never gotten into salting oatmeal in any form. But it's perfect overnight oats weather here and am making for breakfast. One part each: oats, yogurt, oatmilk. Add a bit of maple syrup, nuts, dried fruit, cinnamon

Agree butter is crucial for hot oats imho

we did steel cut for years but have pivoted back to regular rolled recently

topping: raisins, brown sugar, half-and-half, cinnamon, walnuts plus a smidge of salt

for steel cut they are really good if u toast them in butter before cooking

I've been told recently with earnest (via the "Americans with Irish Ancestry" Community) that salt is essential to Irish Oatmeal. It doesn't change much for me.

I did try the peanut butter, inspired by this thread. But dairy fat really makes it work for me.

Man I am a total apostate it seems.

Quick oats with skim in the microwave. Cut up fruit, usually half an apple. Heaping scoopof yogurt. Breakfast.

I have my recipes for making fancy oats and stuff but I don’t have enough time for that shit in my day to day.

mr veg makes our oats on Sun night - i dont have to do a thing all week :D

I find the process of easy breakfast-making helps me wake up, I have tried making a few days worth of overnight oats and it always just feels bleh. Glad it works for you tho!!

yeah i'm also a microwave guy and it's an every morning deal for me. who has time to clean another pot every day seriously.