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Letter Re: Rolled Oats Versus Steel Cut Oats for Storage
Mr. Rawles;
Here is another thing that readers should be aware of: steel-cut
oats require substantially more cooking than the more processed varieties.
I buy
#10 cans
of steel-cut from Honeyville Grain, mostly because I like the taste of this
product. Compared to "just add boiling water" instant oats, steel
cut is much slower to cook, requiring about 20 minutes of boiling to become
sufficiently soft.
As a preparedness food, it requires too much fuel and preparation time to be
a first-line food of choice.
On the other hand, a pressure cooker could probably make short work of preparing
any of these "semi-processed" commodities, so your mileage may vary.
- JN
