Mega serious thread - how do you make your porridge?

[Iani]

Can there be a more serious subject - except for one on the bacon butty perhaps!

Inspired by a seminar I was coerced into attending last week on healthy eating, where the speaker raved about the properties of the oat (must be organic, stone milled and marketed by an obscure co-operative, and of course cost a fortune for a bag!), how do you make your porridge.

One Scottish guy gruffly told me it has to be water and salt only (and anything else I'd be called a wee poof)

Another lady said her and her husband spend the summer collecting wild berries, freezing them, so all winter they can put them into the morning porridge (of course they would be a bit slushy after defrosting, but still very fit for this purpose).
She used half water half milk, no salt.

My friend at work just boils it up in water and eats it that way - well that sounds like something I'd only use for sticking up wallpaper!

So never mind how do you eat your creme egg - what is the "proper" way to make this most healthy of breakfasts

[Iani]

Oh, and for all it's worth, if I don't just skip breakfast, I cook in a pan on the stove, 2 cups water to one cup oats, pinch of salt, then when it's ready, add some milk to cool it.

Drop of honey and you're well away

Then don't forget to sandblast the pan. I stopped using the microwave after the last time - when.................well I'd have been proud of that pebbledashing if it had been the outside of my house

[imagine]

porridge ,,,,,,, all milk , these days i cook in microwave , half cook leave to stand 1 minute then continue, cover with microproof splash lid, after cooked add nestles evapourated milk, and lots of treacle syrup, nice sweet and creamy, i never use quick cook oats,,

another favourite is raw oats in a mug add cold milk and lots of suger , use tea spoon to eat, good healthy snack

[mickcant]

I use 1 cup of Quaker Oats to 1 cup of milk and I of water, good spoon of butter, simmer for few min then turn off leave for 5 min add a little sugar, pour in bowl, add dash more milk and enjoy.

My dog really likes it too, but I leave the sugar out of his.
Mick

[grahamw48]

porridge ,,,,,,, all milk , these days i cook in microwave , half cook leave to stand 1 minute then continue, cover with microproof splash lid, after cooked add nestles evapourated milk, and lots of treacle syrup, nice sweet and creamy, i never use quick cook oats,,

another favourite is raw oats in a mug add cold milk and lots of suger , use tea spoon to eat, good healthy snack

I'll go with your method too....and yes, we used to make that snack when we were kids !

[imagine]

I'll go with your method too....and yes, we used to make that snack when we were kids !

must be a yorkshire thing

[imagine]

just a crumb away from porrige,,, home made oat biscuits mixed with treacle syrup and baked in oven,, yummyyyyy

[grahamw48]

Aye...poverty again.

[imagine]

Aye...poverty again.

luxury for my sweet tooth

[lastlid]

porridge ,,,,,,, all milk , these days i cook in microwave , half cook leave to stand 1 minute then continue, cover with microproof splash lid, after cooked add nestles evapourated milk, and lots of treacle syrup, nice sweet and creamy, i never use quick cook oats,,

Pretty similar to me except I use honey instead of syrup and add sliced banana. Am tucking into a bowl right now.....yum.

No added salt or sugar.

One Scottish guy gruffly told me it has to be water and salt only (and anything else I'd be called a wee poof)

Incidentally, as Doc Alan might tell you, Scotland tends to be the highest in the country for heart related diseases and no doubt one of the reasons is salt in porridge. The daily recommended maximum of 1 teaspoonful of salt per day can be surpassed in your first meal of the day if you add salt to porridge.

[toging]

in the philippines we do have our own porridge made of RICE (as usual).....its far much longer to cook it compare to your oat porridge.... but its plain and simple,.. rice,water and a bit of salt boil it till the rice is soft to your taste and then the breakfast,lunch,snack and dinner is ready....

[Arthur Little]

The daily recommended maximum of 1 teaspoonful of salt per day can be surpassed in your first meal of the day if you add salt to porridge.

... I suppose the same could be said about the quantity of salt added to the water used in boiling potatoes.

[Dedworth]

The Fatherlands best - Aldi Hi Spec Porridge £0.75p a kilo.

In bowl with milk & sugar (ideally let it stand to soak in for 10 mins or so) - 2 mins full blast in microwave, stir, 2 mins 50% power

[lastlid]

... I suppose the same could be said about the quantity of salt added to the water used in boiling potatoes.

As Terpe would say, its all about minimising risk. Especially at my age.

But how can you have fish and chips without salt, I ask.....

[lastlid]

The Fatherlands best - Aldi Hi Spec Porridge £0.75p a kilo.

In bowl with milk & sugar (ideally let it stand to soak in for 10 mins or so) - 2 mins full blast in microwave, stir, 2 mins 50% power

Yep. My nearest Aldi is a 3 hour boat ride away......

[Arthur Little]

But how can you have fish and chips without salt, I ask.....

... INDEED! .

[Dedworth]

Yep. My nearest Aldi is a 3 hour boat ride away......

Don't even think about trying the Tesco Value Porridge from your new supermarket it's like talcum powder. Lidl also offer some of Deutschland 's Finest about £0.38 per 500g - yet another example of Rip off Britain Quaker & Scotts 1kg £1.50 Asda and Big Price Drop Tesco, £1.75 Sainsbury

[sars_notd_virus]

how do you make your porridge?

I want my porridge hot!! made with milk thickened with banana and sweetened with honey

[lastlid]

how do you make your porridge?

I want my porridge hot!! made with milk thickened with banana and sweetened with honey

Similar to me except I slice my banana.

[stevewool]

when we was kids my mum use to make it for our breakfast, a big pan on the cooker, nothng measured just poored in water then the oats, then stir and stir and stir, once thick add suger and then serve, if you could get lots of the suger in your bowl you was made for the day, those were the days