Steel cut overnight oats fail :-(

I see these posts about overnight oats quite often. Why are you cooking them overnight? The package I have says to cook for 10-20 min.

I've even soaked them in cold water for 30-40 min like you would bulgar wheat and they are soft.

She was talking about steel cut oats, not rolled oats. Steel cut takes much longer to cook & soften up. Getting them started at night & letting them soak overnight will result in ready to go first thing in the morning oats. For people w/ small children, sometimes even 10-20 minutes is too long to wait on a busy weekday morning!

I was also talking about steel cut oats not rolled oats. The package of organic steel cut oats I have says to cook them for 10-20 minutes. And I wasn't questioning whether anyone had 10-20 min of free time, just wondering why you'd cook something for several hours when the instructions say 10-20 min.

I think they bring them to a boil and then turn it off, allowing to oats to be cooked by the stored heat.

I cook mine once a week. I cook them pretty much as directed on the package and use water...I actually didn't like the consistency with milk. I can't stand the mushy consistency of rolled oats but have read there's little nutritional difference.

I cook mine, let it cool, split into 8oz wide mouth mason jars, top with 1tsp brown sugar per serving and a little bit of raisins. I have the plastic mason jar lids (which are dishwasher safe and plastic so they won't rust) and I just pull a jar of oats out of the fridge each morning, microwave 1min, stir & eat. Just add a little water or milk when you reheat if you don't like the consistency (I'm fine with it but it's a little different from just-cooked).

This^^ I make anywhere from 4-8 servings at once. Put them in freezer safe ziploc bags and throw them all in the freezer. The night before I want one I stick it in the fridge and then reheat it in a bowl in the morning with my toppings. This way I don't have to eat them every morning and they will last for 2-3 weeks in the freezer.

Dont bother with them at all , grains and the like are hindering actual weightloss, reality is the current modern food pyramid is false. The only reason they want you to eat so many whole grains,wheat etc is it helps keep farms in business. If you reallly want to get fit,healthy,lose weight go with Eating only plants,animals,no sugars. You would be amazed at how much better you feel when you get rid of those other foods you dont really need.

This is out right False and not sound dietary advice

Actually it is sound advice but its for a lifestyle change not a short term diet, you also reduce carbs big time that is the bodies number 1 killer of diets. Just google Primal Blueprint, their actual claims etc are backed by true actual scientific,medical testing and not just testing on a group of 50 people to see if it worked. A bowl of oatmeal a week wont destroy you but thinking oatmeal is the best thing for you, your kidding yourself.

We were born to run. We are the only creatures on earth with the capability to out run, distance not speed, nearly every other animal on the planet. To run long distances you need carbs! Big huge bowls of oatmeal. The primal diet is a great diet but it misses a huge biological reality. Humans chased down their food long before they fired a gun at them or trained horses to ride.

take this excerpt from an arcticle...
Human traits appear to be specifically adapted for running—and for jogging for long distances. So Dennis Bramble and David Lieberman were not at all surprised that a man won the Man Versus Horse Marathon. It fits their hypothesis. Unlike many mammals, not to mention primates, people are astonishingly successful endurance runners, "and I don't think it's just a fluke," Lieberman says. He and Bramble argue that not only can humans outlast horses, but over long distances and under the right conditions, they can also outrun just about any other animal on the planet—including dogs, wolves, hyenas, and antelope, the other great endurance runners. From our abundant sweat glands to our Achilles tendons, from our big knee joints to our muscular glutei maximi, human bodies are beautifully tuned running machines. "We're loaded top to bottom with all these features, many of which don't have any role in walking," Lieberman says. Our anatomy suggests that running down prey was once a way of life that ensured hominid survival millions of years ago on the African savanna. -http://discovermagazine.com/2006/may/tramps-like-us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Long distance runner require fuel or glycogen. Eating Oatmeal pasta and other high carb foods help keep our glycogen stores up. Good luck running endurance distances on a primal diet ...http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-fuel-a-marathon/#axzz25j9kKNJj Mark explains how here but I assure you that is not how things worked before or even now with modern day Persistence hunters

I think we're talking about two different oatmeal preparations here.

A lot of people make a big batch of cooked steel cut oats in their crock pot overnight. It's just a time saver and there are lots of recipes on the internet.

This is different from the overnight oatmeal that you eat cold. In this preparation you use rolled oats, milk and or yogurt and fruit. You put everything in a container and let it sit in the fridge overnight. In the morning you eat it cold. Some people put nuts, granola, cereal, etc... on top.