Good morning! You know, I’d been meaning to mention to y’all ever since the steel cut oats deal that several of you had mentioned cooking them overnight in the crockpot, so I tried that. And they turned into glop. Yuck. I’m back to cooking them on the stove, but I do wonder if anyone knows what I did wrong.
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Alton Brown did an episode of Good Eats on oats and talked about overnight in the ol’ crock. He’s an authority, so perhaps YouTube can help with that.
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3 1/2 – 4 cups water, 1 cup of oats, some brown sugar… Did you use a mini crock?
Wait, hubs is sending me the actual link to the recipe… Here it is http://www.recipezaar.com/Steel-Cut-Oatmeal-for-the-Crock-Pot-101101 . It came out great!
I used a water bath in the crock pot which isn’t nearly as difficult as it sounds. I found a bowl that would fit in my crock and hold all the oatmeal. (I think it was a 6-7 cup bowl? It needed room for expansion.) I mixed the oats and water in the bowl, set it in the crock and added water to the crock about up to the water line in the bowl, give or take. Plugged it in and went to bed. It was good stuff by morning!
Try just soaking steel cut oats or regular rolled whole grain oats, wheat or barley overnight in the refrigerator. Use the same amount of water required.
I’m telling you –on the stove boil everything together before you go to bed, cover and turn of the heat. It’s ready in the morning. You’ll have to reheat but it’s perfect steel cut oatmeal.
Can you double the recipe for a bigger crock pot?
What Sarah said. I figured it out by accident but it’s just like you spent 45 minutes cooking them in the morning, without actually getting up early.
I use this recipe: http://www.recipezaar.com/Fruited-Irish-Oatmeal-80652
I have been able to successfully been able to half and even quarter it…in my big ole crock pot. Am asking for a mini for Xmas just for these oats!!!