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Oatmeal on the Egg?

Buxwheat
Buxwheat Posts: 727
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
While eating my morning oatmeal today (nuked for convenience), I got to wondering if anyone has made any on the egg. I made mine w/ rolled oats today (only a bowl full), but my favorite is McCann's steel cut oats. A bit time consuming for one bowl, so I only make it by the pot full. I have made it ahead of time in a Crock Pot and then refrigerated it (sometimes using apple cider instead of water). Spoon out a slab, moisten, nuke, and it's still pretty good. Any ideas? Dutch oven I'm thinking. After the oats, maybe cook some other breakfast stuff: no sense in wasting an Egg full of hot lump.
Edit: Amazing! As I was typing this and previewing for typos, Spring Chicken was submitting his post on oatmeal! Must be some sort of Vulcan Mind Meld thing going on. Either that, or lot of oatmeal fans out there!
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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I don't need no damn oatmeal! ;)
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  • egret
    egret Posts: 4,188
    Yeah, we know! You're used to eating that girly-man chili for breakfast!! :woohoo:
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  • Bordello
    Bordello Posts: 5,926
    I like mine, a little brown sugar, cinnamon and a shot of rum. Yumm :laugh: :silly: :lol: :woohoo:


    Cheers,Beers & Ladies :evil:
    Bordello
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  • Davekatz
    Davekatz Posts: 763
    My dear wife has been making steel cut oats (Red River) by first toasting it in the pan with some butter and then adding the water and letting it simmer. Very nice.

    You could easily do the same thing with a dutch oven on the Egg - inverted plate setter, trivet, about 350°F. Melt the butter in the pan and get it hot, toast the oatmeal for a minute or so, then add the liquid and cover.

    I like it with a big shot of maple syrup.

    Dave
    Food & Fire - The carnivorous ramblings of a gluten-free grill geek.
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  • Celtic Wolf
    Celtic Wolf Posts: 9,773
    Don't think anybody asked you whether or not we needed oatmeal..
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  • Mainegg
    Mainegg Posts: 7,787
    egret wrote:
    Yeah, we know! You're used to eating that girly-man chili for breakfast!! :woohoo:
    THANK YOU Egret!!! I knew it could be all that tough if I had never even laid eyes on it!! :P
    and to stay on topic :whistle: there is a great company here in Maine that does organic (not to big of a deal to me) steel cut that is sooooo goooooddd!!! I can't remember their names as I dump the bag in my big jar. quite often I will put a cup of it in the frig at night in about 2 cups of milk then cook it in the morning. :kiss:
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  • gtalvola
    gtalvola Posts: 42
    Steel-cut oats cook a lot quicker in a pressure cooker. I put the oats and cooking liquid (and sometimes raisins) in a metal bowl, cover the bowl tightly in foil, and put that bowl inside the pressure cooker with 2 cups of water. Let it cook 5 minutes at full pressure and then let it cool down on its own for another 8-10 minutes or so. Comes out great and total cooking time is about 20 minutes.

    Same basic technique works for brown rice or any grains that would otherwise take a long time to cook.
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  • Buxwheat
    Buxwheat Posts: 727
    Thanks, Dave. I'm going to give it a try on the Egg. (Don't have a pressure cooker and I don't think sealing a Dutch oven w/ duct tape would be suitable substitute. :laugh: ) About how long on the egg, and do I need to constantly stir while cooking? Do I need a Spurtle?
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  • Davekatz
    Davekatz Posts: 763
    That spurtle makes you wonder about eating any food that need to be beaten down with a stick ;)

    Just a minute or so to toast and then about an hour of simmering. If you use a trivet under the dutch oven I don't think you'd have to stir all the time. On the stove my wife only stirs it every 10 minutes or so.

    Let us know how it turns out.

    Dave
    Food & Fire - The carnivorous ramblings of a gluten-free grill geek.
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  • Sundown
    Sundown Posts: 2,980
    Girley Man chili!?

    You blasphemous old coot!

    Daring to call any chili Girly-Man!

    I would NEVER call your chili Grape Boy chili implying there was something inherently wrong with the ground turkey, salt and pepper and the carefully doled out 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flakes you use. I would NEVER do something like that. ;)

    Doncha' love the blasphemous old coot thing? I thought it was a nice touch. ;)
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  • Mainegg
    Mainegg Posts: 7,787
    HA!! that brought you out of hiding you old coot!
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  • egret
    egret Posts: 4,188
    Oh Carey.....you slay me!! :laugh: I thought your "Socially Unacceptable" handle was describing your 'lame' chili!! :woohoo: You got the "Old Coot" right......but, I'm just wonderin' here if you're trying to set me up for a real man chili showdown!? But, then, that would take a 'real' man...however, you could get Gayle to help you.....cause, you'd need it, in bunches!! You're obviously desperate or you wouldn't be posting my 'secret ingredients' like this. :cheer: :cheer: Ground turkey and red pepper flakes!?? Geeezzzzzz.....
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  • Sundown
    Sundown Posts: 2,980
    A "chili-coot cook-off"? :evil:

    There is a Goddess! And she's really amused with us.

    Not so much I think.
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  • egret
    egret Posts: 4,188
    Lilly-liver.......
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