Argument with DH over oats

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To save time (maybe 30 seconds?!) tomorrow morning, I've just measured out the oats for tomorrow's porridge into a saucepan and left them ready on the stove. In the morning I'll get the milk out of the fridge, add it, and cook the porridge.

DH has just come into the kitchen and said that the oats will go stale overnight and put a lid on the saucepan. I think he is insane and oats can't possibly go stale in ten hours. He thinks it's obvious that oats left not in an airtight container will suffer a major quality deterioration and doesn't see why I wouldn't have automatically put a lid on.

What's the Mumsnet verdict?!

I'd have put a lid on too. (Sorry!)

I do stuff like this, usually I put my cereal in a bowl, tea in the pot and have all my utensils set out the night before.

That's a relief. Not wild oats you're quarrelling over.

He’s bonkers

I would cover it due to beasties running over it in the night. Just a plate or something.

They won’t go stale, but there’s so many spiders on the loose in my house I’d probably put a lid on just to keep the protein content down.

I'd also be putting a lid on them.

I'd have put a lid on it too!

I'd have put the lid on too. I wouldn't leave any food uncovered.

No idea but would prob put a lid on to make him happy and think he was nuts on the end inside

They will not go stale IMO but with the size of the spiders ( which I like ) in my house ATM I think all the oats would be eaten by the morning

No way, they do not go stale, I do this all the time!

I'd have put a lid on not because I think they'll go stale but just to prevent any flies or other creepy crawly things deciding to bed down in the oats for the night.

It's not something I would start or have an argument about though.

As the song says - If you like it you shoulda put a lid on it

No idea but I think it's hilarious! As the oats are to be cooked I don't think it will affect the quality. In fact, if they absorb some moisture from the air overnight it might take slightly less energy to cook them.

Actually, isn't the traditional Scottish way of cooking porridge to leave the oats soaking in salted water overnight?

I would put a lid on too, sorry op!

LOL it seems that lots of us have spiders charging around at the minuet.
I like raisins in my porridge, a boiled spider would not be a nice surprise

Yeah, I’d put a lid on too. It’s spider season.

I’d put the milk in and leave it to soak overnight.

Arguing about oats isn't too serious, but once you're bickering about boats, coats and moats then you're in LTB territory.
Enjoy your porridge!

I would never leave anything out overnight uncovered.

SilverChime I would too makes cooking it even quicker in the morning.

Never mind stale. Worry about insects.

I'd cover it too, but that's because of the crazy fruit fly infestation we have at the moment (query: why aren't the equally huge numbers of spiders eating them?)

But I don't think the oats will dry out overnight, no. And we don't keep ours in an airtight container come to that, they just stay in the box with the wee cardboard flap open.

it seems that lots of us have spiders charging around at the minuet

Mine proceed at a stately gavotte.