I cook the oats with water and salt on the stovetop. If I have time I use steel cut, but normally just stick with rolled oats.
My usual add-ins are honey, ground cinnamon and full cream milk.
This morning I tried peanut butter, strawberry jam and milk. Really good.
Another favourite of mine is grated fresh apple and cinnamon
Aye, it's a delicious quote, but that's noo how you quote the ad.
Why thank you McGee - you've corrected one of my childhood memories
i have it with bacon, eggs, sausage, hash brown, bake beans, mushroom, spinach, toast…. hold the porridge though…
Hold the everything, I’m 18-6 fasting…
Happy ramadan, habibi.
I’m not your habibi, buddy…
Cook with semi-skimmed milk on the stovetop. Serve with honey.
Never tried it.
I always steal mine from 3 hungry 🐻🐨🐻❄️
Microwave 2 minutes with lactose free full cream milk. Usually quick oats, sometimes rolled. Add frozen raspberries and blueberries. Delicious.
Sometimes I blend it with berries, walnuts, whey and milk into a smoothie.
When do you add the frozen berries? After cooking or before?
You can do either but I do after. I like them just slightly melty
With a spoon
you sicko
That's heroin, the other scottish breakfast.
american pie style
Steel cut oats made in advance in instant pot. I make around 5 days worth at once and reheat for a few mins in microwave each morning. I add cinnamon to it whilst cooking. Served with blueberries and peanut butter mixed in, and a dash of milk. Really good.
We do ours pot in pot to ensure it doesn’t burn.
In the instant pot I never have any burning issues thankfully
Mostly we’re OK but things that are pretty viscous can do it sometimes. We only make two serves at a time. We also do our Yogurt pot in pot in a Pyrex bowl. You pop on the lid to store it in the fridge and the stainless steel InstantPot bowl only needs a rinse.
@try2bhelpful: Possibly the liquid ratio.
2 cups dry steel cut oats to 5 cups liquid sees me through. I did try mixing dried peanut butter powder in once and that did burn, I think as I did not increase the liquid enough (or at all) to compensate.
In a bowl.
I'm sorry to report that someone already did a version of this bit
No they haven't.
Yes they have
Uncle Toby's quick oats. I'm lazy.
Also lacking taste buds, apparently.
This porridge is my absolute favourite and I’ll have a bowl each time I go to yumcha.
I don't personally like it. I drown my porridge with fried dough sticks
I used to drown my dough sticks to warm cups of soy milk :)
In congee or in porridge? Whilst I love it in congee, it seems a bit odd to have it in porridge for me.
Oh I thought the Asian version of porridge is congee. In hindsight I see that they are different lol
I have steel cut oats in a 1:1.25 oats to water ratio in a bowl, cover with cling wrap, and microwave for 30 seconds, cool, and leave in the fridge overnight.
In the morning, blend some frozen berries, top with hemp and toasted buckwheat and eat.
This is all way too much effort. Equal quants oats and water in a bowl, microwave until it looks edible. Usually just under 2min.
Oats, milk and Milo. Topped with whipped cream if I'm feeling fancy.
This comment right here officer
Wouldn't be the first time.
i slice fruit into mine, bananas, apples,pears
just thin slice pieces,cook same as normal,serve
coles/woolies/aldi brand rolled oats - pour out an eyeballed quantity into bowl
hilo milk - again an eyeballed quantity into bowl. not enough that oats are covered in the bowl
water - probably 1/3 the quantity of the milk to cover oats in the bowl
Nuke in Microwave for 2m30s
Consume as is, no toppings or garnish
a handful of rolled oats from the packet into my mouth, fill with water, chew
Heh - Don’t forget to swallow that load
Saw an article on porridge yesterday on the ABC - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-02/hungry-after-porridge…
intrigued by egg porridge
Definitely give the egg a go. Whisk it in at the end, it makes the porridge less heavy and creamier. If I’m making porridge from scratch I have to have a couple of eggs now, without it just seems wrong.
What do you mean in the end? Your post is confusing. Is it the same method as in the article or are you giving an alternative?
It's so good! I read the same article and have already eaten it three times since.
From the story: The result is porridge that has "a creamier, custard-like consistency".
Big Oat propaganda really
I thought this post came off the back of this article as well
Mine is rolled oats, milk, sugar.
Same here
I don't eat it often, but it's nice with banana, desiccated coconut, honey, cinnamon, soy milk.
Cook with water. Depending on the feeling eat with either raw sugar or milk and salt.
Pot in pot with InstantPot oats and milk. Top with macro LSA, bananas, milk, Yogurt and maple syrup.
no salt.
sultanas, raisins, and/or mixed dried fruit added as it comes to the boil.
jam, whatever is open, strawberry, apricot, mixed berry, even marmalade. milk
millet porridge is also good.
Reminds me of my favourite Margaret Fulton quote.
"Porridge only has two ingredients, Oats and Salt. Add them both!" - Margaret Fulton.
I take quick oats from bag, add to bowl
add real honey into it
add milk.
i eat it cold
i like it a bit crunchy
i eat it cold
i like it a bit crunchy
As in you just mix it with cold milk? 😲
Yep
a) take bowl out of bowl storage
b) add plain quick oats from the cheap bag from Aldi
c) add a tablespoon - or two - depending if i'm making it for the kids also, of actual honey - not the watered down version -
d) pour milk from fridge* till it starts to flood
e) mix
f) spoon some out for the kids and some for me
Enjoy the crunch.
if the milk is new from the pantry, i first put it into the fridge to cool down the night before
i only drink long life milk. I dont like the taste of blood in my milk from the fresh milk.
on other news, I also do not use shaving cream when shaving my face. Just water and a razor. USed to be a single blade BIC razor, now it's sometimes 3 sometimes 5 - whatever's around at home.
I think you might be tasting the Tin Foil in your milk, not blood.
@LockedUpLotionClown: i can taste the same thing i taste when i suck on a key or on blood when i cut myself (accidentally), when i drink fresh milk. i dont know what it is, but i don't like it.
so long live long life milk (for me)
and why would i get downvoted for telling people how i eat my porridge? wth
@TerryJustTerry: Makes sense for keys to have had Pb in them 30+ years ago, leading to abovementioned posts.
Yep, I used to basically have rolled pats as a cereal for a long time, with Greek yoghurt, protein powder mixed in, and frozen fruit on top.
Cannot stand the texture of porridge myself. Might as well let weetbix go soggy then warm it up.
yes. agreed with the soggy warm weetbix sentiment
That sounds not a million miles away from cranachan - oats, cream (rather than yoghurt) and berries. Easy to make https://scottishscran.com/traditional-scottish-cranachan-rec…
orally.
I tried it the other way. I don't advise.
I wouldn't have expected porridge to have the structural integrity for consumption via shelving.
Where there's a will there's a way.
Not too hot, not too cold.
Not too yes, not too no.
Wait, we might be doing different things here.
Geez, there are a lot of people eating porridge in interesting ways!
I have recently been getting more into it again. Grew up having it with salt as a kid, but don't anymore.
I use Colesworths quick oats, with full cream milk added basically to cover the oats. Microwave for 3 minutes, 1 minute at a time. If it's getting too dry, top up milk.
Add half a chopped apple, a handful of sultanas, three tablespoons of Greek yoghurt and some brown sugar.
Cooking with the milk and adding the yoghurt makes it ridiculously creamy! 😋
That sounds like a Bircher muesli but cooked.
Quick oats with equal amount of milk, microwave 1min, stir, microwave another minute. Add in whatever I'm adding. This morning it was a squirt of golden syrup I found while cleaning out the cupboard last weekend (only 5 years past date but sugar doesn't expire IMO) and raspberries.
oats, not porridge. 1 cup homebrand rolled oats, cover with kettle hot water 1 hour before eating. cover with wire mesh basket to keep fkn cat away. then 3 hours before game time (only time I eat oats is for footy games or pre season training) cover with full cream milk and microwave for 2min 20sec. 2 heaped spoons of sugar mixed in and another dash of milk as required, wait a minute or so to cool down
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That's sounds awfy like porridge pal.
oats/oatmeal is a form of porridge, but porridge is not necessarily made from from oats
growing up stove top prepared porridge was a smoother texture, almost like a thick shake.
microwave oats/oatmeal is till whole pieces in a soupy liquid
it's a bit like the distinction between ragu and bolognese
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OK so you're calling it "not porridge" because it's different to how you had it as a kid. That's not how things work, either culinarily or linguistically. Even across Scotland there are many different styles, all still called porridge.
1x 1/3 cup quick/instant oats
1.5x 1/3 cup water
sometimes add some cinnamon powder if i can be bothered
mix mix mix
microwave for 90s
add some almond milk
add half banana and some blueberries
mix
sometimes add a bit of honey
this is my usual staple breakfast.. quick, easy and filling
A slightly different take. Rolled Oats - Aldi/Coles/Woolies homebrand - Never instant oats
Cook 5 servings the night before with pinch of salt. Put in bowl and then into fridge
Remove from fridge, take out one serving put rest back in fridge.
Add full cream milk and fruit - banana, Blueberries.
Eat cold with some optional wheatgerm and/or sugar if thats your thing..
Repeat each day until finished then start new batch.
recipe 1 (cooked)
x amount of rolled oats
x amount of water
microwave on high for 2-4 minutes depending on amount of water
x amount of milk (full fat, full cream)
microwave for another 0.5-1 minute until milk is warm enough to mix in with the oats.
then for kids, I add either mashed up banana or some frozen berries
for adults, anything from raisins / mixed nuts / dried fruit etc…
recipe 2 (Museli)
x amount of baked oats or museli mix
x amount of greek yoghut
sliced almonds / raisins / nuts etc
chia seeds
top up with ff / fc milk (usually x amount is enough)
leave overnight in the fridge
next morning, shake it all up / add more milk if needed
top up with frozen berries or compote (berry / passionfruit) and a weetbix if you want
1/2 cup quick oats. Bit of milk. Microwave for 2 minutes. Splash some cold milk on top.
I have it raw and vegan. Taste best that way.
With black coffee, hold the oats
I'm gagging just reading all of these responses. So many winter's mornings as a kid I was late for school, as I wasn't allowed to leave the table until I finished my porridge. I hated it then, I can't abide the smell of it now.
Similar, born and brought up in Scotland and never understood how the bowl of sludge ever appealed to folk who could afford to eat ANYTHING else.
Third. Cannot stand it, but my wife loves the stuff.
Ey, it tastes good, but that's no how you make porridge