Oatmeal: The Thread

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Here we will acknowledge and bow before the most versatile, delicious (in the right hands) breakfast food ever to be put in the bowls of man. Oatmeal, of course.

I swear this stuff tastes good with so much and there aren't many wrong ways to make it. I've recently been trying to get off so much sugary cereal so I've bought a ton of steel cut oats and I'm currently coming up with the various ways that I can prepare it.I made some recently with bananas, peanut butter, and a hint of vanilla extract and it was amazing.

How do you guys make your oatmeal? What are some of your favorite things to put in it? Are you a steel cut oats kind of person or an rolled oats kind of guy? What are some things you like to eat or drink with oatmeal?
 
This will sound hipster as fuck, but I found a regional source for an amazing oatmeal. I normally make it with a dash of salt, then brown sugar and fresh fruit. :)
 
I prepare mine based on a Gordon Ramsay comment during a Reddit AMA. Leave a banana over the pilot light heat for a night to soften. Cook the porridge/oatmeal with almond milk. Squeeze in the banana. Top with dried cranberries. Filling as shit.
 
Farina for life.

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Manna.
 
The tough thing for me is oatmeal with any sort of sweet taste at all (brown sugar, etc).. I can't eat it without a lot of bacon to balance the sweet with salt.
 
LyleLanley said:
I thought this was going to be about the awful web comic. That being said, oatmeal with brown sugar is delicious.
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funny, I thought this was going to be about one of the best websites on the web.


Couldn't tell you when the last time I actually at oatmeal was.
 
If people have any interesting recipes, or just their personal favorites, share them!
I have been looking to spice up my breakfast.
 
Weevilone said:
The tough thing for me is oatmeal with any sort of sweet taste at all (brown sugar, etc).. I can't eat it without a lot of bacon to balance the sweet with salt.
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Yeah some people add a lot of sugar and it borderline makes oatmeal a dessert more than a breakfast. It's like when people put a ton of sugar in grits. I think finding a balance is key.
 
Love oatmeal. Among with the commonly known mixes, I like to make it worth some sugar free pudding mix. Comes out like a dessert.
 
Oatmeal is the best. Good for you. Filling. Cheap (3 bucks worth should easily make a week of meals). You can pretty much add whatever you want to it.

Blueberries and cinnamon are so good
 
I usually boil some water and while I wait for the water to boil, I'll drop some blueberries/strawberries in there so the water starts to take taste and then I'll drop in my oats and some peanut butter.
 
I cook mine with just plain water, add unsweetened almond milk, semi sweet chocolate chips, chia seed, flax seed. best thing ever
 
I'm more of a steel cut oat man myself, I fuck with a bowl of that on the regular. Time it in the rice cooker for just before you wake up. When you get to the kitchen, you stir in some brown sugar and buttermilk and leave it in the cooker on Keep Warm while you brew up your coffee. Great way to start a day. Plays well with fresh berries for real.
 
I like my oatmeal savory with cumin and basil, some turkey crumbles and a poached egg and a small dollop of jalapeno jelly.

But sweet oatmeal works just as well, so long as there are raisins. Fat, plump raisins that defy all logic and some cinnamon and butter and...

I need to go to bed because it is way too late to succumb to that temptation.
 
There's a reason "squats&oats" was a meme in the fitness community for a while. As far as simple, healthy, bulking foods go oats are as easy as it gets.

Some teenager complaining he's too lazy to eat enough/healthy? Squats & oats.
Somebody complaining the can't afford healthy food? Squats& oats.
Somebody claiming they can't gain muscle no matter how much they eat? Squats & oats.

It's cheap, it's quick, it's tasty, it's nutritious, it's filling.
 
For some reason I don't like my oats cooked like porridge.

I soak my oats over night with milk, greek yogurt and any fruit of my choosing, usually blue berries. I guess they call this raw oatmeal.
 
What do you guys put in oatmeal for it to taste good without a lot of sugar. I used to do honey / maple syrup but now I'm staying away from sugar.

This morning I had oatmeal with almond milk and cinnamon but it was not too tasty
 
Steel cut oats in a pressure cooker with a little honey is lovely.

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Any mfker come in here acting like grits be better gon' get stabbed.
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I love both but being in the mood for oatmeal or being in the mood for grits/polenta are very very different things for me. Taste is so utterly different.
 
I've come to enjoy steel cut oats a great deal recently. I like the different texture.

Going to have to try the peanut butter suggestions, that sounds yummy.
 
I use my rice cooker to make steel cut oats. Damn good stuff. Give it a try if you have a rice cooker. I only add cinnamon, no sugar/milk.
 
I bought 50lbs of steel cut a month or so ago. Was half as much as getting it lb by lb from grocer.

Usually mix up peanut butter or almond butter with some complementary protein powder as my post workout meal.
 
Steel cut oats, water, and salt go in my Zojirushi rice cooker at night. Set the timer and I have hot oatmeal ready for me when I wake up in the morning.

In terms of flavorings, peanut butter & banana, or just frozen strawberries/raspberries/blueberries for me, with some agave to sweeten.

I find I can't go with fresh berries simply because I won't use them all before they go bad (and also the little stems on blueberries are annoying).
 
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