Oatmeal can’t compare to the natural tasting notes of cinnamon toast crunch
Edit: On a serious note, Oatmeal is kind of like Coffee where you start by getting the ready made instant stuff, get a taste for it, begin to narrow your selection and then create your own perfect formula
Meanwhile I don’t even cook the oatmeal, just eat the little flakes straight up and like it.
I eat oatmeal most mornings and for years I hated it. This is my formula and it works for me.
Old fashioned oats (quick oats are fine too)
Peanut butter power
Truvia brown sugarI use tap water and only just enough. I like my oats thick and not mushy. Just enough water that it’s not crunchy.
Peanut butter powder?
Yep! It’s a thing. I want to say it’s in the peanut butter section
Never heard of it. It’s there a specific reason to get powder instead of a jar? Does it last longer or something
no fat, mixes into things better
Since it’s a powder, it’s good for mixing.
Honestly there’s a Townsend 18th century about “water gruel” I.e. oatmeal and they have a variety of unheard recipes. If y’all don’t like oatmeal, maybe some Onion Gruel would be your speed? 18th Century Working Man’s Meal
Well no shit, ever heard of cooking?
Wait until you hear about rice and pasta.
huh? d-does your rice and pasta not taste good just boiled with some salt?
get better pasta and rice dude
I don’t even need to put salt on my rice. It’s great on its own just boiled.
Rice and pasta are great on their own or even with just basic seasons. Oatmeal is usually not
Chinese person here, the spices that work well on rice also work on congee, which is already similar to oatmeal, and IMO they work just fine on actual oatmeal too.
even with just basic seasons
What are we calling basic seasonings? Brown sugar is pretty basic imo and oatmeal with brown sugar is basically crack.
Pasta? You mean flour with a bunch of stuff added to it?
Anyone making the assertion that ingredients must taste good on their own to be considered tasty is free to go try vanilla extract to compare it to vanilla icecream.
Why do people insist on randomly hating what other people eat? The textbook definition of differing tastes between different people than cannot be accounted for? Unless your kid is named Oatmeal and they ate them, maybe mind your own business.
It’s probably a fat fuck that can’t stomach anything with less than 30g of sugar.
oh boy fatphobia
I’m not wrong.
I mean, in a pinch you can get away with just butter and salt. Oats taste fine by themselves, it’s just really boring after two bites.
EDIT: I am not a horse.
Oatmeal with some cinnamon is great, if you don’t have the palate of a child
Pinch of salt for me.
If imma be fancy I add bananas and a libble but of honey.
I’ve been eating a bowl of overnight oats for breakfast with just soymilk and some sugar for like two years now and I can’t see it changing anytime soon. It just hits the spot for me.
It’s fine by itself. I mean, it ain’t winning any awards for taste, because it’s not good but it’s not awful either. It just exists. 🤷🏻♂️
I just put a handful of blueberries or cut up strawberries in mine for some stimulation.
Oatmeal is a grain product, so yeah, adding other things to it to make it more to your personal liking is kinda the point.
This is like saying bread is bad because most people like it in a sandwich.
Wheat is bad because you have to add more than just water to make bread
That’s actually not even necessarily true. You can just leave flour around in water and the natural yeast ferments. Then you can throw that in with some more water and flour and it’s sourdough. Would be better with some salt though.
Or you can make super depressing unleavened flatbread.
you don’t even need yeast, in sweden we have “stick bread” which is just flour, water, baking powder, and salt which you wrap around a stick and grill over a campfire. Perfectly tasty.
In Canada and Scotland, it’s called campfire Bannock.
Yes, no one who says “I love pasta!” is saying that to mean “I love just the pasta on its own without any sauce”
Er…n-no one? ^^’
I think it’s fine alone
