how do you make your porridge?

One cup of oats, 2 cups of milk, 1 cup of water + a pinch of salt and sugar, cook on the hob and serve with a knob of butter with a sprinkling of demerara suger with some milk or cream around the edge.

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Is this a bit like the Shaving and Espresso thread that unless you do it the longest way possible you are obviously not manly enough?

I like my porridge but anyone who sits over a stove in a morning cooking it clearly has 'issues'.

Scotts oats - bowl - milk - microwave - add something sweet. Done.
 
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1/2 cup of oats
1 cup of milk
3 minutes in the microwave.

Add anything from sugar/honey/banana/peanut butter/ground linseed.

Eat.

If I'm adding peanut butter or linseed though the cooking time needs to be less due to how much thicker they make the porridge.
 
Muban said:
One cup Scotts Porage Oats
Two cups water
Pinch salt (only a small amount, like when you add it to water to boil veg/potatoes)
Cooked in a pan
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Edinho said:
Is this a bit like the Shaving and Espresso thread that unless you do it the longest way possible you are obviously not manly enough?

I like my porridge but anyone who sits over a stove in a morning cooking it clearly has 'issues'.

Scotts oats - bowl - milk - microwave - add something sweet. Done.
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Nah, it's a how do you make 'your' porridge thread.
Nobody is being criticized for using a microwave and you don't have to 'sit over a stove' or have issues for preferring it cooked a certain way.

Perhaps you have issues? :p
 
Edinho said:
I like my porridge but anyone who sits over a stove in a morning cooking it clearly has 'issues'.

Scotts oats - bowl - milk - microwave - add something sweet. Done.
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If you genuinely can't tell the difference between the texture of oats cooked in the microwave and those cooked in a pan so the oats actually start to break down then maybe this is why you think people have 'issues'.

Can you really not tell the difference, or is it just that you think the 5 minutes (because really that is all the extra time it takes) extra isn't worth it? If it's just that the texture difference doesn't matter to you then fine. I just think it isn't nice if it isn't gloopy! Microwaved to me is just hot oats and I'd rather not bother and cooked in a pan is porridge. I don't think anyone is taking it that seriously though ;)
 
Mircowave, water and milk, quite thick, sugar.

I have done it on the stove, but it isn't worth the extra washing up imo.
 
Muban said:
If you genuinely can't tell the difference between the texture of oats cooked in the microwave and those cooked in a pan so the oats actually start to break down then maybe this is why you think people have 'issues'.

Can you really not tell the difference, or is it just that you think the 5 minutes (because really that is all the extra time it takes) extra isn't worth it? If it's just that the texture difference doesn't matter to you then fine. I just think it isn't nice if it isn't gloopy! Microwaved to me is just hot oats and I'd rather not bother and cooked in a pan is porridge. I don't think anyone is taking it that seriously though ;)
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Have to say, I pretty much agree with everything Muban has been saying in this thread. Is 5 minutes really such a hardship? I find porridge cooked in a pan has much better texture than microwaved and much nicer to eat.

krooton said:
I have done it on the stove, but it isn't worth the extra washing up imo.
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I don't find washing up a hassle. If you soak the pan in cold water for a bit, the porridge residue just falls away (unless you've burnt it) and it only takes seconds to wash the pan.

Anyway, here's mine from this morning. 1 part oats to 2 parts water and a little salt - job done :)

In the pan:

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In the bowl:

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Muban said:
If you genuinely can't tell the difference between the texture of oats cooked in the microwave and those cooked in a pan so the oats actually start to break down then maybe this is why you think people have 'issues'.

Can you really not tell the difference, or is it just that you think the 5 minutes (because really that is all the extra time it takes) extra isn't worth it? If it's just that the texture difference doesn't matter to you then fine. I just think it isn't nice if it isn't gloopy! Microwaved to me is just hot oats and I'd rather not bother and cooked in a pan is porridge. I don't think anyone is taking it that seriously though ;)
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Yep I was right then. Bet you have a Gaggia and shave with a DE razor? But you're right it's just a bit of fun.
 
at work I use oats so simple but at home I do it slow in the pan, i use a lot a fruit and i find its the only way to do it
 
Overnight Oats

50g of Rolled Oats
20g low fat Yogourt
100ml of a milk of your choice (i use Almond or Soya milk, some folk use a protein powder)
Frozen Fruit. (sainbugs Blueberries and strawberries is my choice atm)

Pop it in a sealed container (i use a soup thermos) and leave it overnight with the lid half on and its ready to eat in the morning.

The breakfast of choice when i go to swimming in the mornings as you can just drop it in the bag and much at my desk at work.

(the oats so simple are not so simple, masses of Sugar used)
 
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Edinho said:
Yep I was right then. Bet you have a Gaggia and shave with a DE razor? But you're right it's just a bit of fun.
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Right about what? How much did you want to bet me by the way, because I'll take it. It's either instant or a cafetiere cup for me (I'm also going to have to google DE razor now :p).

You're probably going to tell me microwaved jacket spuds taste the same as those done in an oven now too ;) The horror!

EDIT: Having googled, definitely not a DE razor. I'm clumsy enough to hack my legs off using one of those.
 
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Stan_Lite said:
I don't find washing up a hassle. If you soak the pan in cold water for a bit, the porridge residue just falls away (unless you've burnt it) and it only takes seconds to wash the pan.
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1 pot, 1 wooden spoon, 1 spoon, 1 bowl
vs
1 spoon, 1 bowl

:p
 
My routine is 50g asda Scottish porridge oats, mug of skimmed milk into a pan.. Put kettle on...iron one side of my shirt..eat one third of a pot of onken/similar yoghurt, stir porridge, pour glass of orange, fill cafetiere and stir, put one teaspoon of honey in bowl...stir porridge, iron other side of shirt, stir porridge till ready, pour coffee, get dressed while porridge cools down. Kind of sad I know but since I have the same routine every week day I can do it on autopilot half asleep and without thinking and it wouldn't really save me much time doing in microwave because I'd still have to do the other stuff around it before I sit down.
 
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