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?!

He's mental. Of course they won't go stale.

I'd have put a lid on too just to save picking out any moths or bugs that committed suicide in the stuff. No way will they go 'stale' overnight.

@LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett - the crazy fruit fly infestation we have at the moment (query: why aren't the equally huge numbers of spiders eating them?)

Not just me then. My kitchen is exactly the same!

Yes I’d cover the oats too, well actually I wouldn’t of put them in a pan the night before ! but it’s because I have a huge mouse phobia and I would be worried I’d encouraged mice in 😂