MINNIE wrote:I tried: Trader Joe's, McCann's Irish Oats, and regular old Quaker oats. They all cook in the microwave in in 3-5 minutes, or on the stove in about 10 minutes.
Instead of Trader Joe's I bought Bob's Red Mill.
They all tasted good to me, and seemed just as filling and satiating as the long-cooking steel cut oats.
The McCann's tasted a wee bit oatier, but certainly not enough to justify the price.
I have an Instant Pot, so most of the time I don't really need quick-cooking steel cut oats.
When you consider the time it takes for the pot to first reach the pressure and then cook, microwaving is quicker.
But they are convenient if you are in a hurry, only have a stove top, or are traveling and have only basic cooking facilities.
I've read where people have even used their rice cooker for set-it-and-forget-it cooking, too.
(If you are going to use the microwave, be sue to heed the instructions to use a DEEP enough container, and don't cover it. You really don't want be cleaning sticky oats off the walls of the microwave oven LOL.)
I have a 4-cup Pyrex measuring cup I use for almost all my microwave cooking. I also have an 8 cup one I use when nuking 2+ pounds of veggies or more than one serving of oats. Like Vegankit, I sometimes like to make more than one serving in the Instantpot to spread out in a container and cut into servings for busy mornings, but prefer to make fresh daily. Even using that 4 cupper for one serving, if I add too much fruit it may boil over in the microwave so I keep one of those round silicone mats on the microwave turntable at all times. That thing cleans up like a breeze!
Here's the style mat I use, but Amazon has a number of them. I got mine in Bed, Bath, Beyond ages ago.
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