How to cook perfect porridge

[ayceejay]

Porridge is recommended as food to fuel your ride, but do you know how to do it well?
This thorough explanation from the Guardian may have you cooking the perfect porridge instead of riding you bike.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/nov/10/how-to-cook-perfect-porridge

 

[derrick]

3 mins in microwave, chop up banana add sugar eat, get on your bike and ride.

 

[TheDoctor]

Cooking porridge oats is easy.
Get your oats, add syrup and melted butter, and bake for 25 mins.
There you go - porridge you can take out on the bike ride

 

[RedRider]

£1, just add water. Guilty as charged

 

[slowmotion]

40 grammes of Scott's Porage Oats, 275 mL of semi-skimmed milk. Put it in a large plastic bowl in an 850 watt microwave for three and a half minutes...no need to cover. If you don't put it in a large bowl, it will end up all over the inside of the microwave.

 

[ayceejay]

See, this is what bugs me - is it porridge or porage do you nuke it for two and a half minutes or three or bake it for 25 minutes? Which method is best for hill climbing? I am thinking that this is not a very exact science.

 

[hopless500]

See, this is what bugs me - is it porridge or porage do you nuke it for two and a half minutes or three or bake it for 25 minutes? Which method is best for hill climbing? I am thinking that this is not a very exact science.

You nuke it until it is the consistency you prefer. And for me it is 'porridge'.

 

[slowmotion]

See, this is what bugs me - is it porridge or porage do you nuke it for two and a half minutes or three or bake it for 25 minutes? Which method is best for hill climbing? I am thinking that this is not a very exact science.

I usually spell it "porridge" but the Scott's box in the cupboard has "Porage" on it. Who am I to disagree with them, even if it is a temporary abberation?

Edit: here it is....

 

[ColinJ]

£1, just add water. Guilty as charged

No thanks - Co-op Simply Value porridge oats today, 79p for a kilogram bag!

 

[vickster]

Quaker oats, 4 mins in microwave in a big bowl, mix skimmed milk and water...no better at climbing hills but I can't hold the porridge responsible for that

Value brands too husky for me!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's either spelling. Porage doesn't always rhyme with garage but it does with forage. And it sounds like porridge.

Meanwhile, I'm always finding new things to put into it. As dessicated coconut works so well, I'm going to try to remember to buy some coconut milk to continue my porage studies. Perfect porridge is when it's exactly how you like it, by the way.

 

[Speicher]

The oats that I purchase are specially imported from Canada, grown on a remote hill called Paw Ridge.

 

[Radchenister]

My oats are the finest that Aldi can offer, they come in a flour style bag - a minimalist's dream, marked 'everyday essentials', this is perhaps an ironic metaphor for the underlying complexity of the refinement process that went into producing them and delivering them to me, I always offer them folding notes in large denominations every time I buy them but they insist on only charging me 75p.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-r...tials/ps/p/everyday-essentials-porridge-oats/

... and if you think I'm joking, give them a try - they really are good ... of course, you need to know how to cook them ...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My oats are the finest that Aldi can offer, they come in a flour style bag - a minimalist's dream, marked 'everyday essentials', this is perhaps an ironic metaphor for the underlying complexity of the refinement process that went into producing them and delivering them to me, I always offer them folding notes in large denominations every time I buy them but they insist on only charging me 75p.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-r...tials/ps/p/everyday-essentials-porridge-oats/

... and if you think I'm joking, give them a try - they really are good ... of course, you need to know how to cook them ...

75p is too measly for Muesli. (I'm only posting that because it's fun to say.)

 

[Octet]

Don't shoot my down with fire, but Ready Brek is just quick, simple and tastes good in my view.

One sachet, fill just over the marked line with milk (I like it runny) and then sprinkle sugar on top. Bish, bash, bosh and it's ready in two minutes at half the price of one of those instant cups of porridge.