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How can I turn rolled oats into flour without a food processor?
You could use a mortar and pestle, if you have a good (and large) one - though it would take a lot of time and grinding to make it work, and probably small batches to fit your mortar and pestle size, ...
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Why does cooking oatmeal starting with cold milk make it creamy?
Flour and cornmeal are well known to clump when added cold to boiling water. Such clumps arise when starch molecules unball and forming a mesh that traps other starch molecules, preventing them from ...
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How can I turn rolled oats into flour without a food processor?
We often use a coffee grinder to make almond flour for my son who is on a very restricted diet. We use a simple 19.99 blade grinder rather than a burr grinder. We've also used it to create powdered ...
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Can I heat up overnight oats
Soaking oats in milk overnight makes for very good porridge, with little effort in the morning as you just have to heat it through. So you're very close to something standard.
The golden syrup and ...
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Should you layer Greek yoghurt on porridge oats or mix it in with the porridge oats?
The point of overnight oats is to allow the oats time to hydrate slowly at a cool temperature, rather than cooking them in water. So it's best to have them well-mixed with the liquid they'll be ...
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Do oat flakes (Spar S-budget) contain gluten?
This is a situation similar to what consumers with food allergies face - the critical substance is not in the food items per se, but cross-contamination may be a problem.
Oats are gluten-free1, but ...
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Why did my oatmeal and raisin cookies end up tasting soapy?
Soap is effectively a base (eg baking soda) reacted with a fat (eg oil). Also, heating baking soda can cause it to convert into sodium carbonate, which is a much stronger base.
I would suspect you're ...
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Dust and stems in packaged oats
I'm not sure what you means by dust exactly but stems are definitely a sign of less sophisticated processing and quality control. You should rarely, if ever get a stem. As for dust its very hard to ...
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My oat bread is drier than the Sahara
Your oat bread is a quick bread recipe. Keep in mind that advice for quick breads is going to be very different than advice for yeast risen / glutinous breads.
In quick breads, the structure of the ...
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How do you prevent oatmeal from overflowing?
Simply add a handful of raisins and it will not boil over. Have no idea why but it works.
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Should I buy more expensive oats?
My experience is that for making porridge (various methods, sometimes soaked but not always) or granola, or for baking (flapjack/oat bars, crumble topping), all rolled oats are equivalent. I usually ...
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Quantity for over night oats
Weigh the contents of one packet.
Check the packet instructions to see how much liquid to add.
That's your ratio, very precisely.
You can then apply that ratio to any measurement.
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Should I soak old-fashioned oats?
You don't even need to cook them, let alone soak them.
They form the bulk of most mueslis, to be eaten raw.
However, if you're going to be making porridge...
The basic recipe has as many variations ...
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Are the oats in overnight oats processed differently by milk than by milk substitutes?
The main enzymes found in milk are: alkaline phosphatase, lactoperoxidase, lysozyme, lipase, proteinase, cathepsin D. (Jimenez-Flores, 2013). These enzymes appear in very low concentrations in ...
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What is the benefit of overnight oats compared to traditional oatmeal cooking methods?
They taste different. Some people like the taste of "overnight oats" better than regular oats, and some people absolutely hate them.
"Put a bunch of stuff in a jar and leave it" ...
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How do you prevent oatmeal from overflowing?
Adequate room for expansion is important. For oatmeal I don't bother to do anything special, just know how long I can set the microwave for without getting a volcano in the bowl, and set it there, or ...
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Why does honey prevent porridge congealing?
Honey is hygroscopic - meaning it has the ability to absorb water. Even if you covered your porridge after adding the honey, there's still enough moisture in the container for the honey to absorb.
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What part of oatmeal cookies are making them soft / chewy?
There are several ingredients and procedures that work together to determine the structure and texture of a cookie. At the end of this recipe on ChefSteps, there is a very detailed explanation. I am ...
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Is there such a thing as unsteamed rolled oats?
Rolled uncooked groats will shatter. You can get uncooked, unrolled oats though. Food coops and organic grocery stores/coops have them. $1.49 a pound is a good price. You want hulled oat groats, as it ...
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Why do we add salt in porridge?
No. It's just for taste. Moderate amounts of salt taste nice to people especially if we are accustomed to it in our food.
Salt tends to enhance the flavor of sweet foods as well. Recipes for cakes, ...
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How to make microwaved porridge thicker
There are 2 main points that will affect the thickness of your porridge :
The oatmeal/milk (or water) ratio
The temperature reached by the oatmeal. Litterature says the oat starch gelatinization (...
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What is leftover in the pulp after making oat milk and how can you use it?
Yes, most of the fat, starch and flavour of the oats ends up in the milk, so what you have left is mostly fibre. Dough or batter made from it won't gelatinize much if at all, so will not hold together ...
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Why did my oatmeal and raisin cookies end up tasting soapy?
I don't see anything acidic enough to react with the baking soda and neutralise it. That's often the culprit in a soapy flavour. Flour and egg are very slightly acidic but I don't think it's enough, ...
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Why did my oatmeal and raisin cookies end up tasting soapy?
The chemistry of the soapy taste for oats has been described in several studies.
The oat grain consists of the groat (caryopsis) and the surrounding
hull (husk). Only the groat is required for milled ...
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What is the benefit of overnight oats compared to traditional oatmeal cooking methods?
Using the overnight method for oats is more beneficial for oats that aren't quick oats. For example, steel cut oats can take ~20 minutes in a pressure cooker, then there is still the prep time to add ...
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Premixed Bircher muesli (cereal) - soak overnight or ready-to-eat?
Both.
It’s just a matter of taste and convenience what you prefer.
The long-soak gives an overall softer, mellower result and requires a minimum of planning. The overnight-soaked version may be ...
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Recipe calls for rolled oats, I have old fashioned oats - can I substitute them in cookies?
Yes, Old Fashioned Oats and Rolled Oats are two names for the same thing. To wit: "Rolled oats are traditionally oat groats that have been dehusked and steamed, before being rolled into flat flakes ...
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Oat Flour for pasta not rolling well?
I made oat flour pasta today and I had the same struggles in the past but found using very little water and xanthan gum works. I used about 3/4 cups homemade oats flour, pinch of salt, about 1/4 tsp ...
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Is Apple Cinnamon Oats an Indian recipe?
Oats is very new to India. I am an Indian and I think oats came to Indian market only 5-6 years earlier. Even now oats is considered food for people who are on diet and still not eaten regularly.Most ...
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Do oat flakes (Spar S-budget) contain gluten?
The product entry on Spar’s Austrian website for Hafer-Flocken contains this information on allergies. (As translated by Google)
Contains: Cereals containing gluten and products made from them
I’m ...
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