Porridge in the sloiw cooker?

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Love to have hot porridge in the morning, but can't deal with doing it in the morning. DD2 wants breakfast as soon as she wakes up at about 6.30am and will cry till she gets it and DD1 is usually very grumpy first thing, so cooking porridge for 20 mins or so is the last thing on my mind so we always end up with boring weetabix etc.

Just wondering if anybody has tried doing it in the slow cooker overnight?

Microwave it?

Have you done it? I have tried and its never come out very good? Am tempted to just get ready brek

I found this on weightwatchers website and printed off to try but haven't managed yet but by all accounts its yummy

1 cup of oats (90g - 5 pts) 3 cups of water, 1 cup of milk (280 ml - 2pts), 2 grated apples (1 pt) cinnamon and 2 tbsp of brown sugar (2 pts). I put it on 'low'

and how long do you cook that for in the slow cooker>

BTW< the sachets of microwave porride take 2.5 mins, and proper oats take 3 to micro and 3 to stand. so still quicker than 20 mins at the stove

Sounds lovely, was thinking of putting something else in it to give it that extra bit of flavour so will give that a go (once we have done the food shopping anyway!). Does it say how long for? Assume just before bed - ie as late as possible?

We microwave porrige (sp) - at the moment we have the ones with the hefty scotsman tossing a caber so i think they are proper ones! They come out fine from microwave IME and there are normally instructions on the pack.

Proper porridge oats I mean we have. I like to add a bit of cold milk after to get to right consistency and bring the temp down from super-hot. 3 mins is fine - just follow instructions on packet.

Sometimes stir some raisins in which is yum.

So has nobody done it in the slow cooker?

Don't like Raisons but DD1 does so might do that for her! Thanks!

I do it in the slow cooker sometimes. It's handy when we're all leaving the house at different times.
I put it in about 10pm
www.mumsnet.com/Recipes?call=RecipePage&pid=3169

Now I do like a good slow cooker recipe, but there is absolutely no need to do porridge in the slow cooker when the microwave does it perfectly. I wouldn't cook anything else in the micro, but porridge is made for it.

Seriously fast and easy if you buy the sachet versions of proper oats.

How do the oats get time to absorb the liquid in a microwave though?
I'm imagining it like warm milk with oats just floating about in it.
I'll have to try microwaving it.

I'm going to try this overnight tonight. My mum is on the early shift this week and the sound of the microwave binging away before 6 in the morning as she makes her breakfast wakes me up makes all the children leap out of bed too early.

Hopefully it'll come out ok and there'll be plenty left for when we all come down at a more reasonable hour.

Paisley, they just do!

I'm crap at getting the quantities right from a big box of porridge, but the sachets have a line drawn on them where you pour the oats out then pour milk into the empty sachet up to the line and it's perfect.

20 mins? Since when did it take this, long seriously??! I just put a cup of oats in the saucepan and 2 cups of milk, bring it up to the boil , stir it a bit and it's ready in about 5 mins? Can you not give her a bit of banana or bread to gnaw on while you do the stirring if you're worried about her being hungry and miserable while she waits?

Standing and stirring is not compatible with grumpy LOs. They always scream or poo at the wrong times. And you have to factor in cooling down times as porridge gets VOLCANIC! Fecking ages to cool down.

Isnt it a bit risky? I mean, keeping milk hot for so long? Will not bacteria grow at enormous rate?

I also think microwaving is the way to go with porridge, seems to make it more creamy.

Double milk or water to oats ratio.

2 mins and stir plus 2 more mins and it's done

Quint - I think the slow cooker still bubbles away even on low, so would have thought that would keep bacteria at bay, not sure though.

I've got a impatient diner too, bits of banana / whatever is to hand fend him off until porridge is ready

jenny i did porridge in the slow cooker and it turned out nice. Can't remember the exact recipe, found it on a thread on here. will have a look
turned out nice, but not quite the same as when you do it on the stove, softer. My kids ate it!!

Too hot? Cold milk will sort that pronto. Sorry, it's quite late at nite - this isn't one of BitofFun's piss takes is it?? Apologies if it's not.

By EffiePerine Fri 22-Aug-08 21:10:25
found a recipe!

from the bbc site:

Overnight Porridge

1 measure (by volume) of pinhead oats
3 - 4 measures of water (depending on how thick you prefer your porridge)
Up to 1 measure of any kind of dried fruit you care to throw in (optional)
Salt to taste
Put all the ingredients into a slow cooker (crockpot) before you go to bed and set it to 'low'. In the morning you will have a pot of delicious, creamy porridge just waiting to be eaten for breakfast. It couldn't be easier. Serve with milk and sugar. Purists and Scots may insist that porridge (sometimes called 'porage') should be accompanied by nothing apart from salt

I don't have pinhead oats, i used tesco value ones. i used raisins but don't have to
worth a shot I reckon!!
Good luck

I put oats, raisins and milk into pan and put it in the fridge. In the morning by the time it is hot it is cooked 5+ minutes depending on quantity.

I double the milk to dry ingredients in the pan.

glasjam - well obv cold milk cools it down, but only the edges! And if you mix it in it just gets runny.

so there.

We used to buy the sachets of porridge until ds grabbed a large bag of 'real porridge' on a supermarket trip and insisted we had those instead. Best decision ever as they taste so much nicer than the insipid sachets. They take a similar time to microwave too. I measure the porridge into a bowl,add milk/water, bung in the m/w, stir halfway through and the result is lovely creamy porridge.

I always add slightly less milk so the porridge is thick when cooked. I then add cold milk to cool it down and get to the right consistency.

We don't have time for porridge to cool down - it has to be eaten as soon as it is made.

LowLevelWhingeing - sounds like a bastardisation of CopingVeryQuietly? Am I being had perchance

If so see my next post.