Porridge in slow cooker overnight?

[agendabender]

I have a 3.5l slow cooker, which I love. I'm considering getting a smaller one and attempting to cook porridge in it overnight, so that when DC2 arrives in January I can just serve DS1 and I instant breakfast, and stick the pot in the dishwasher rather than having to wash up a pan.

Has anyone done this? Did it work? Am I dreaming?!

Porridge is so quick to make. Why bother with the SC? Either way you'll have a pot to wash up/dish wash.

Microwave.

2 mins. stir. 90 secs. Eat. No pans and no overnight elec.

I do it in my 3.5L slow cooker and use half (good quality) porridge oats and half pinhead oatmeal. 1part oats to 1 1/2 parts milk and 1 1/2 parts water. I've tried various milk/water ratios and this seems to work best. I leave it on a timer so it cooks on low for 4 hrs. It turns out quite creamy in texture but slow cooker porridge always seems to taste more watery than if it were cooked on the hob. It's worth it though, even if it does only save me 5-10 mins in the morning!

You can make some lovely variants on porridge in SC overnight, winter porridge with cinnamon, dried figs and raisins is nice, but for normal porridge I use the microwave

Glass jug

Add oats, and milk ( or Half water/ half milk). Add raisens/ anything else. And leave in fridge overnight.

3 mins in the morning in microwave. Jug in dishwasher ( less time if small portion)

We used to soak it overnight in milk and eat it cold - straight from the fridge with honey and raisins. Now we don't even bother to soak it - pour milk in, stir it around and eat!! Kids so used to it that way that when we suggested making it warm in the last few cold mornings they were horrified

I thought about doing this and looked on some crock pot recipe sites but the people who do it seem to be making much bigger batches than I would need and then saving it and microwaving on the second day. I will just stick with the pan!

It's not worth it just for you and ds. I've done it a few times and it comes out well bit the pot needs heavy cleaning and to too much hassle. We do but instant oats now - 2 minutes in microwave and they are perfect. I don't like regular oats in the microwave as I find it's always chewy but the special prepared ones are fine. Buy the plain ones and flavour them yourself.

OK good advice ladies, thank you!