I love them, too. Sometimes I soak them overnight so they'll cook quicker in the morning. I'll try your method as well.

Last week I tried adding them to soup instead of barley. It was very good!

I buy mine at the health food store, which sells it in bulk, too.

Any health food store will carry them. I like to add them to meatloaf.

Yes, love the steel cut. Don't have a recipe, use dried cranberries some mornings. Add just whatever suits my fancy. Sometimes its dried pineapple chunks, Just plain, I love the taste also.

I looooove them! Usually toast them first in a dry skillet before adding hot water to cook . . . once they're done I add dried cranberries or cherries and some brown sugar; yummm. They're also great thrown into bread dough.

Here's a recipe I got from Weight Watchers boards:

CREAMY PUMPKIN OATMEAL / CROCKPOT

2 cups steel cut oats
1 12 oz. Can fat-free evaporated milk
1- 15 oz. Can pumpkin
5 ½ cups water
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (can add more to taste)

1. Just put it all in the crock pot, mix well. Cook on low for 4-6 hours.

2. For an apple version: substitute 2 cups sugarfree applesauce for the pumpkin. Add one large chopped apple. Substitute 2 teaspoons cinnamon for the pumpkin pie spice.

Shirley

(I make this and eat from it for several days, and freeze any that's leftover.)

Yes, they are good and I can get them in a local grocery store. The brand I have now is Red Mill and I have also used a Irish brand. I like the idea of soaking first to shorten the cooking time. I'll try that next time for sure.
Lois

I buy tins of McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal at the supermarket.

I've been doing some simple research and it seems that for the healthy part,
there really isn't too much difference. Not enough
for me to change from rolled oats to steel cut anyways.
I haven't tried the steel cut, so I'm haven't
tasted the more nutty flavor that they are
said to have.. but I'm not waiting around to cook them. lol

Here is a link that might be useful: just one

I was just going to ask how people liked the steel-cut oats. It was mentioned in the "last thing we ate" post.

I did see them in a bulk store as well. I didn't realize they need to be soaked first. I'd definitely like to try these sometime.

Here in Canada we are able to buy Red River cereal which is a hot cereal made of cracked wheat, cracked rye and flax seed. Looks like bird seed and takes about 20 minutes to cook....but it's delicious!

Year ago my Dad made them for breakfast and camping alot. He use to put so much into a big Thermos (stainless steel) , add boiling (very hot water), put the top on and let them sit all night. Then ate them the next morning, usually with raisens and chopped walnuts.

Hub and I prefer steel-cuts because to us, they have a much more appealing texture. Hub calls rolled oats "library paste". :o)
If you bring the water to a rolling boil before adding the oats and let them cook for a couple mins before turning the heat down, they take about 15 mins or so. Not quick, but quick enough. We eat them with frozen berry mix and I also add walnuts to mine.

I make a big batch and freeze individual servings. They do take longer to cook, but I like the taste and texture better. I will have to try some of the ideas here. Thanks.

I love steel cut oats, but I'm the only one in the house who likes them (it's a texture thing for the rest of the family), so I don't make them very often. Never tried microwaving them before, but thanks to the OP, I think I'll get to eat them more often now. Once they're cooked, I'll eat them even cold.

Wavies!!! Hi Cheekybones!! Nice to see ya!

Hi Bee!! Sent you an email!!

I came to the same conclusion as Kat_wa - very little difference nutritionally, so I continue to use rolled oats. I do like the taste of steel cut oats, but the extra time to make them always deterred me. I may try making them and freezing them to reheat, as Cheekybones mentioned.

I put some raisins and about 3 heaping tbsp. oats plus salt, sometimes some cinnamon in water in an individual bowl, heat about a minute in microwave, stir, to re-mix the cooked stuff at the edge and the partly cooked stuff in the middle, let them sit for a bit, then give it about another minute or slightly less - don't want it to boil much - stir again, let it sit for another minute or two, then heat for about half to a minute more, depending on consistency of the gruel.

Add brown sugar, milk and half and half, warm for about half a minute, and eat.

Nice change from farina, 3-grain/8-grain, etc. cereal, lg. flake and quick oats.

I haven't done cornmeal as morning cereal.

Good wishes for treating your body to good nutritional food.

ole joyful

P.S. Treating your body/mind/spirit well may well entail saving more money annually toward retirement, which many aren't doping(1) enough of, and learning how to make it work harder, to develop larger growth with a measure of safety ...

... for you'll likely be retired longer, and enjoy sufficiently good health that you'll be game for more (usually more expensive) activities, adventures, travel, etc.

Tough being forced to forego such interesting activities due to fear of burning one's last dollar well before one draws (and surviving spouse draws) one's last breath.

o j

1 P.P.S. This was supposed to be, "doing" ... but I thought that the way that it came out was too delicious to amend!

(still) o j