Fast way to cook steel-cut oats when no microwave is available

handyman_hank

I am looking for a way to prepare fast steel-cut oats. I do not have a microwave, and I would like to have them for breakfast but I can not cook for ~40 mins to prepare them in the morning. I have tried to cook them by simmering them ~10 mins till the water is gone but they did not taste good (were actually uncooked). I have also tried leaving them overnight in a bowl of milk but they were not easy to eat either (was like chewing gum) Note1: yes...

Originally asked by Jim on Stack Exchange (cooking) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

My low-effort steel cut is to set the bowl of steel-cut and water in a steamer and let it go about 20 minutes (or longer) - unlike (my experience of) cooking them in a pot, there's no stirring, boilovers, or other drama. IME the drama fully applies in the microwave and no time is saved by it. But you are not going to cook them in 10 minutes time (2 minutes active work, yes, 10 minutes time, no.) On the other hand, I don't see why you'd be cooking for 40 minutes in any case. Edit: I begin to suspect from the comments that @Jim is not familiar with the concept of steaming. So, steaming, the short explanation: A small amount of water in a large enough pot. A rack set on the bottom of the pot...

Full answer by Ecnerwal: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/63017 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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