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I'm still looking for a good source of organic steel-cut oats, so I'm doing "regular" in an Instant Pot.

Life hack: put the measured water and oats inside a bowl, but put the bowl inside the Pot with half an inch of water. You're going to dirty the bowl anyway; no sense dirtying the Pot too. Just use gloves or a potholder to remove the bowl, unless you have very tough fingers.

Zero chance of the microwave under-cooking the oats or, worse, over-cooking and making a gawdawful mess in there.

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dataviz10002mo ago

I use either Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats which are cheaper and organic or McCann's steel cut oats. I don't know if I could tell the difference in a blind taste test but I think McCann's are creamier and nuttier in flavor.

> no sense dirtying the Pot too

I cook all meals at home so I run the dishwasher machine every night and put it in. I might try the bowl trick with single serving of rice.

Interesting that oats suffer the same economics as yellow bulbs in stop lights where they are used much less meaning it costs more to switch them to led than the electricity costs saved. Genetically modified (GMO) oats are not commercially available because the cost of developing them doesn't meet the low demand.

I also sometimes fry and egg and put it on top the oatmeal with maple syrup. I know it sounds gross but I like it.

i_think_soOP2mo ago

> I use either Bob's Red Mill Steel Cut Oats which are cheaper and organic or McCann's steel cut oats.

Oh, those aren't at all as overpriced as I was expecting. Thanks for the recommendation.

> I might try the bowl trick with single serving of rice.

Just about anything I have ever cooked in an IP at the single to double serving size I have been able to do using that trick. (Rice, pasta, even "baking" personal sized cakes.) I've lived for years at a time in homes with no dishwasher so optimizing for not relying on one has been worth the effort for me.

Rice is a no-brainer. If you don't end up preferring it I'll be shocked. :-)

> Genetically modified (GMO) oats are not commercially available because the cost of developing them doesn't meet the low demand.

Wow. I had no idea. Thank you part 2. This is very good news. Anything I can do to get the glyphosate out of my diet is most welcome.

> I also sometimes fry and egg and put it on top the oatmeal with maple syrup. I know it sounds gross but I like it.

It sounds like a breakfast of pancakes and fried eggs and I've run out of cinnamon sugar and that maple syrup is right there looking at me.

Oh, did I mention that you can make one big pancake in your IP in the same bowl, and if you have "regular" oatmeal (not the instant kind, nor the un-cooked steel cut kind either) on hand you can substitute half of the flour and have a big ol' breakfast in 40-50 minutes? The only thing besides the bowl and spoon I need to clean is the 1/4c measuring cup, now that I can easily estimate the amount of salt I need to shake in, etc.

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