Overnight oats

[VaguelySensible]

Overnight oats always seem to be made cold, then need to be microwaved in the morning. What if you made them with boiling water in a Thermos? Would you have hot porridge the following morning?

I dont microwave my overnight oats. I eat them straight out the fridge. If I wanted a hot breakfast that was faster than porridge, I think I would just make porridge in the microwave. No need to prep the night before in that case. Just add milk to oats and pop them in. Hth.

It’s basically Bircher muesli and that’s eaten cold.

(For me, the point of overnight oats is that you can make a batch on sunday night and they keep.fine in the fridge all week. That's certainly not going to work as you suggest with hot water / thermos)

you don't heat them up, they are eater cold.

Just done mine for the morning, I take it out of the fridge about 10 minutes before eating so they’re more room temperature than cold

Op would you consider making porridge in a slow cooker if you have one

They're to be eaten cold as the liquid/yoghurt is absorbed overnight so they feel like cooked oats (mushy) rather than crunchy. I add chia, flaxseed, fruit and flavoured yoghurt or cinnamon

I don't want cold oats, I want hot, effortless porridge.

I tried it last night, and it's very good. I prefer it to standard overnight oats. Still has the slight crunch, yet is creamier and more porridge-like. But it's room temperature. Could, of course, be a duff flask. I shall continue experimenting.

I could use the slow cooker, but that would be a lot of clearing up for one portion of porridge. Which would put off my target consumer - teen ds.

When I make porridge it's one amount of oats to the same amount of milk to the same amount of water.
How about soaking the oats in milk overnight then adding boiling water from the kettle next morning?

don't want cold oats, I want hot, effortless porridge.

Well, don't. Have some porridge instead.

Stand a small bowl inside the slow cooker then the cooker itself doesn't need washing up.

Microwave porridge gives me terrible heartburn but slow cooker porridge is fab

Porridge takes 2 mins in the microwave. Seems more effort to make it, out in a flask and then clean it up after?

FWIW, I was brought up to soak porridge oats overnight, so the whole overnight oat thing confused me

Good idea, deplorabelle, I shall try that tonight.

And for everyone saying 'just make porridge, it takes 2 minutes' - yes, I could and would do that for myself. But my disorganised, stressed teenager (who has just been diagnosed with ASD - explains a lot) cannot. He needs his morning simplified and de-stressed. He is currently going without breakfast because he is running away from decision-making.

Posters are saying just make porridge because OP said she didn’t like cold oats.

Well just put that in the op then and you would have answers tailored to the problem you want resolving.