To think ALL porridge oats are the same...

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This is somewhat lighthearted, but can a person really tell the difference between Scott’s Porridge Oats and Harvest Morn (Aldi) Porridge Oats. My DH claims he can! The ingredients on both boxes say 100% Oats. I think he is just being a bit precious and a little snobby but I am happy to be proven wrong. I make muesli with the offending Oats and that tastes just the same to me.

Porridge made with Jersey milk would be my death row meal. There's definitely a difference - I like Scott's the best - but usually settle for Sainsbury's own. I might try the others that people have recommended.

When my husband came out of hospital severely underweight and needing building up he had porridge made with double cream and lots of sugar. It was to die for! Especially next to my porridge made with semi
milk and fruit!

FuckyNel I totally agree, Lidl oats are far superior, and they come in paper packaging or a box like the Scotts ones.

Yes, massive variation. I like Mornflakes and Wiltons. Tesco's own brand are fine but Waitrose own brand are weirdly nasty, though not as bad as the gluten free oats I accidentally bought the other day.

I often make porridge for breakfast, I’ve never been able to tell the difference between, cheap v expensive, mill ground v any other ground or large v small

I'm surprised there isn't more love for Quaker oats on here - they're my favourite (the proper ones, not the sachets). I don't like Jumbo oats at all.

Honeyroar I normally have semi-skimmed, sometimes whole but occasionally push the boat out with Jersey. It's fantastic. But yes, it is pretty calorific. Almost worth being very ill and needing building up for, which I was once .

Whatever kind of milk I'm using, I make it with only milk - no water. That ruins it and I can taste it if someone has sneaked some water in.

I top with lots of white granulated sugar and spill some cold milk on top to cool it and I eat from the outside in. But if you put the globby, yellowy Jersey milk on, it's heaven in a bowl.

Ballymaloe cookery School ( Darina/Rachel Allen) serves porridge made with cream from their Jersey cows, if you’re doing a cookery course there. The porridge is like a really delicious pudding-probably ridiculously calorific but soooooo nice.

I also need to vote for the Moma porridge sachets/pots. I have one for breakfast everyday at work. You just add water, but it's like proper homemade porridge. Not the wallpaper paste, yucky ones.

I've only recently started eating porridge and have been buying the formerly-Tesco Value ones. This thread has made me realise that I must never buy more expensive ones because I might realise the ones I eat are horrible. In my current state of ignorance I like them.

YABU Scotts are the best. I prefer the original to the old fashioned though.

Not porridge - bit of a diversion into milk - but when we were 14 my friend and I went pony trekking in the Brecon Beacons. We stayed on a farm with other teenagers and we were all assigned chores.

We got what we thought was the short straw. We had to get up at 7am - 30 minutes earlier than everyone else - and set out the breakfast things. The task included lugging in a heavy churn of milk left outside by the milkers at about 5am and ladling it into jugs for people to have on their cornflakes.

On the first morning I put the ladle in and it bounced off the surface. It was solid cream about four inches thick. We ate a kind of cornflakes and cream mousse every day for a week and put the milk in the jugs for everyone else. I put on half a stone that week. However, I weighed only about 6 and a half stones so it didn't matter. Those days are gone

My boys do! We do overnight oats for breakfast, usually do Quakers, did a cheaper brand (do it the night before so they never see) and they knew! They didn't like them! They did look less smooth.

Made me laugh so much when my pfb was 6 months and a 'mum friend' asked if it was safe to feed her baby porridge. She said she'd definitely get the low sugar low salt kind... I had to explain that oats are oats.

Sainsburys so organic are very nice. OP you are being unreasonable and so very wrong.

I would do a blind taste test.

Please inform us all of the results.

I can't tell any difference. It's all produced in the same factory but put into different packaging.

We use Lidl Simply Porridge Oats (a kilo for 75p) and DH makes our porridge on the stove using a spurtle. No milk, just water. It's lovely and the texture is just perfect.

As with most other foods, it will be made in one factory and then put in different packaging. I can’t imagine there being an oat factory for every variation 🤷🏼‍♀️

Flahavan also have their own mill.

I only like ready brek lumpy porridge makes me gag.

I quite fancy some Macroom Oatmeal, it doesn’t look like it can be easily bought outside of Ireland though.

Quaker oats are nice and smooth my favourite. Don't like the large chunky ones with some of the other brands.