Making oatmeal in the crock pot is a trial and error thing so I will give the disclaimer first. Have a back up plan incase it turns out horrible. (I had that happen in the beginning)
I put 1 cup of steel cut oats (I buy them in the bulk bins in the natural foods section of the grocery store)
4 cups water
In my crockpot it works best to put the oats in around 8-9pm and cook them on keep warm. That works for my crock pot but it is relatively new and gets really hot. Plus they cook for a good 10+ hours. When we get up I add a little sweetener and the blessings like cinnamon in theirs.
Some friends of ours hooked up a timer to their crockpot and only cooked them for a few hours. There is a learning curve as to what works best in your crock pot and if you have never eated steel cut oats, they are yummy but different. They have a little bit of a "bite" which I personally love. I started making these a couple of years ago and my blessings don't remember the other oatmeal. (Which I use for granola, granola bars and my favorite; no bake cookies, plus other oatmeal recipes. I even put rolled oats or quick oats in my meatloaf, I also use salsa after one day cutting onion, and green pepper to put in my meat loaf and adding tomato sauce. I was kind of like, why chop, just pour!! I have made it that way ever since. Once every 15 years I have a good thought like that.
Oh, yeah, some people add dried fruit to the oatmeal for the whole cooking process, but that did not work for us. Plus, I am a plain jane (Oh, hi friend) oatmeal gal myself.
What do you add to your oatmeal?
May the Lord find us faithful.
I usually like brown sugar, cinnamon and walnuts, oh and a bit of butter! Thank you for your crock pot oatmeal advice. My crock is newer too and HOT, so I will take that into consideration. Have a nice night! We are under a wind advisory. Tornadoes came through earlier, only a few miles from my grandparents! Now it is freezing and snowing. Crazy January weather!
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I do remember a certain gentleman that would hook his steel cut oats up to a timer so they would not overcook!! Didn't he used to live on Mission Rd? :)
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