Is oatmeal same as oats?

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I’m making cranachan for a postponed burns night. Recipe says ‘oatmeal’. Is this same thing as porridge oats. I googled and oatmeal sounds like it is porridge. But the recipe says to toast the oatmeal so I’m assuming just rolled oats.

Yup

I thought oatmeal was finer? Like ground up oats?

It’s ground oats

Oatmeal is different. It’s pinhead oats, little small bits of oat, they take longer to cook than rolled oats and have more bite. If you use rolled oats for cranachan they’ll go to sloppy.

Not the same at all

Oatmeal is different.

Porridge oats are rolled oats, oatmeal is harder and smaller.

However in the US porridge oats / porridge is called oatmeal.

Ah so where do I get oatmeal sainsbury only had porridge oats...

Health food shop?

Porridge oats is fine for cranachan op, I’ve always used it. Have a great night 😃

Thank you saves me a trip to the shops I’ll toast it so hopefully will keep its crunch

I just made this for Burns Day too. My recipe said 'pinhead' oats so, thinking it must be some kind of very fancy oats, I spent £2.50 on a tiny tub, only to open it to discover it is literally tiny oatmeal. I ended up mixing half of this with basic rolled oats (porridge oats) as I like it to be a bit more rustic.
I also used some honey and thick raspberry syrup, as well as the crushed raspberries and thick cream. I slightly sweetened the cream with a little icing sugar. I was quite hesitant to put in a lot of the toasted oats but I wish I had put more of them in and less cream, because it was a little too much cream! (then again I did fill huge dessert glasses!).

Is it an American recipe? Because their oatmeal IS just oats.

Sorry forgot to add it is nice served with tiny shortbread rounds. Here's the ones I made for Burns Day.

No you can't use porridge oats for cranachan.

Is it an American recipe? Because their oatmeal IS just oats. An American dish? On Burns night?

No you can't use porridge oats for cranachan. The oatmeal turns the whipped cream into something denser. Oats are too coarse grained - you have oats and cream, not a uniform mix.

I thought I got mine from Morrisons, but all they are showing on-line is oatmeal shampoo for dogs

I thought you could just make oatmeal by blending up porridge oats for 30 sec..... Not spending £s to buy them special... That's what we've always done...

@MereDintofPandiculation I mean is it written for Americans with their terminology used.

There are Scottish people in America, shockingly!

I opened this thread because I didn’t know either, found I also hadn’t heard of cranachan either. I really want to eat it now, it looks delicious. Is it always whipped cream, oatmeal and raspberries or can/do you use different fruit?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel-cut_oats

I use porridge oats for cranachan.
My recipe gives half the volume of soft brown sugar to oats, and then toast them in a frying pan until the sugar melts and they form crunchy little granola like clumps. Leave to cool before using in the recipe.
Yummy.

It was a triumph. Made shortbread too. All well received.

No. Oatmeal is finely ground oats