"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
om...
>I picked up a bag of Quaker Oats large flake oatmeal yesterday. I was
>surprised to see "Cooks in 4-5 minutes" printed in the front of the bag.
>Large flake oats usually take more like 15 minutes to cook. When I prepared
>to make some for breakfast this morning I looked for the instructions and
>had some confusion. Among all the small print on the side of the crinkled
>bag was a list of numbered steps. I scanned down to the bottom and step 3
>was "COOK uncovered for the specified amount of time."
>
> I had to go searching again. Stove Top Instructions it said for single
> servings cook 10-15 minutes, for 4 servings cook 20-25 minutes.
>
> Then... I spotted the microwave instructions, and it says 4-5 minutes for
> one serving.
>
> I have been cooking oatmeal porridge for decades. It was early morning. I
> got thrown off by that 4-5 minute thing. I hate to imagine what it would
> be like for someone who has never cooked oats before to try to figure out
> how to cook this item, which I always thought easy so simple.
>
>
> They did have a very handy hint..... for thicker oatmeal use less
> water... for thinner oatmeal use more water.

Fortunate that they did not offer the obsolete hint of using more
oats for thicker, fewer oats for thinner; both assuming the same
volume of water.

pavane