elfs | Experiment #1 in slow-cooked oatmeal: modest failure

Omaha bought a new bag of "steel-cut oatmeal," which is basically chopped groats. I've never had the stuff soften enough to be edible, so I decided to try it in a slow-cooker overnight. It's supposed to be even better for ya than the roller-flattened oats that most people are familiar with. (Actually, I suspect most folkes are familiar with the roller-flattened and then spin-cut stuff marketed as "instant," where all the fiber has been destroyed by the secondary cutting process to make it absorb moisture faster, but the physiology-related nutritional value has been destroyed.)

It worked, at least as far as softening was concerned. But it makes twice as much food, measured by dry volume, as any added sweetener is so fully absorbed as to be undetectable, making today's breakfast very bland. I'll try it again, but next time with half as much oats.