After finding I like long cooked oatmeal rather then instant. After the daily boil overs on the stove and the ensuing mess to clean up. I got this Hamilton beach rice cooker. I just love it and it has not boiled over the stovetop once. I get the first bowl hot from the cooker and refrigerate the other four servings eat them cold. Yes this is so good you can eat a cold. But if you would like you can also microwave the others for one minute.
My favorite recipe makes 5 servings.
Sheri’s Favorite Oatmeal Recipe
1/2 teaspoon of salt
3 cups of rolled oats, they include a measuring cup with the rice cooker.
Fill to the #4 water line.
This is my basic recipe. You can also add flaxseed, nuts or dried fruit. Stir in well before adding water. I also like to stir it after adding the water too.
Press hot cereal and 10 minutes. You do this by pressing the Hot Cereal button until it reaches 10. Do some chores. After the oatmeal is cooked wait 2 minutes and measure out 1 cup servings. The calorie count will vary depending on what you put in. Remember that nuts and flax seed will up the fat grams. Anything you add beyond the above recipe will add extra calories so be prudent on your add ins.
John likes this for steaming vegetables. He likes how easy the clean up is. For Spinach he set it for 2 minutes on Steam Cook and it came out perfect.
