<a href='/u4072' rel='nofollow' title='Viewing profile: Lonecoyote'>@Lonecoyote</a>":ypugu619 said:
Guess EVERYONE else is weird :lol!:
Well, yeah...no news there. Of course, that doesn't mean you and I are
not weird. But as far as I can tell, eating oatmeal doesn't make a person weird. Now, if you were to put the oatmeal in your pants...then yeah, I'd say that makes you weird.
BTW, steel cut is OK, but for me the real treat is
thick rolled oats...but they have to be done right. The "Cooking Directions" are always wrong; they use way too much water, and to cook the oats way too long. The result is that they come out gooey and slimy and with a sloppy oat-gravy mess and it's just...blecchh!!!
I like 'em light and fluffy — not dry, but definitely not soupy or pasty or stuck together in an amorphous mass. I like 'em thick and chewy, where I get to taste the oats. Then, I add fruit, or orange honey, or pure maple syrup, or puréed garlic with habañero sauce. (
See if you can tell which one of those is a lie! It's easy to play, and best of all, it's free!!!)
It's simplicity itself to make 'em right. I just put boiling water on the oats (the amount depends on how wet you want them; I use just enough to cover them), and then let it sit in a covered bowl until the oats absorb all the water. By the time that happens, the oatmeal has cooled enough to eat it — not too hot, and not too cold...just right! It's kind of a Goldilocks thang.
But in the summer, I skip the boiling water. I just mix the oats in a bowl with muesli and some dried fruit (raisins, cherries, cranberries, blueberries) or fresh fruit in season. Then I add fresh soy milk and/or cashew milk (I can't do cow's milk, but that would work too), and let it sit until the mix absorbs enough liquid to be easily chewable. YUMM!!