Steel-cut oats would definitely not work in your recipe; they are unrolled oats, and like rice, must be cooked for about 45 minutes, ratio of water:oats is 4:1.
I love eating oats like you've described. It's so funny that in our culture we are first made aware of oats as just mush. When I made oatmeal for my German boyfriend, back in my sophomore year of college, in his first months in the U.S., he asked, disappointed with the gummy paste before him, "Where are the flakes?" (In German 'oatmeal' translates to 'oat flakes' (Haferflocken).) I suppose flakes and meal are quite different. In any case, it seems Europe* is much more tolerant of texture. Witness: muesli! It's just rolled oats with fruit and nuts added in. Of course, they also sell a junk food-ish version, with chocolate sprinkles :-)
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Wild oats
on 2007-10-01 12:08 am (UTC)I love eating oats like you've described. It's so funny that in our culture we are first made aware of oats as just mush. When I made oatmeal for my German boyfriend, back in my sophomore year of college, in his first months in the U.S., he asked, disappointed with the gummy paste before him, "Where are the flakes?" (In German 'oatmeal' translates to 'oat flakes' (Haferflocken).) I suppose flakes and meal are quite different. In any case, it seems Europe* is much more tolerant of texture. Witness: muesli! It's just rolled oats with fruit and nuts added in. Of course, they also sell a junk food-ish version, with chocolate sprinkles :-)
* Is this usage exemplary of synecdoche?