Oatmeal Recipes: Boiling Vs. Cold Water
February 22, 2012
1-minute read
Nutrition Diva compares methods for cooking oatmeal.
Q. It’s been decades since I’ve read Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet for a Small Planet, but I remember that when cooking oatmeal, one should pour the oats into boiling water so slowly as to keep the boil. Is it still a valid approach?
Answer. Some of the well-meaning advice in this 1971 classic has since been relegated to the dust-bin of history. For example, it was Lappe who first popularized the notion that vegetarians need to combine complementary protein sources like beans and rice in order to get “complete” proteins. Read More »