Can you "cook" porridge in a flask?

Minerva_2

Hi Pink,

Let me know if you like it! I was really surprised that it was in fact "cooked".

Minerva

Counting_Pennies_2

Minerva wrote:

Hi Pink,

Let me know if you like it! I was really surprised that it was in fact "cooked".

Minerva

Did you do the same quantities as recommended, or did you use less porridge oats. The reason for me asking, is I tend to find when mine rests it gets even thicker.

kathyd_2

Minerva wrote:

Hi Pink,

Let me know if you like it! I was really surprised that it was in fact "cooked".

Minerva

Hi Minerva, This is going to save OH a bit of time at work when he has his porridge. Sometimes its difficult to keep an 'eye' on it even when he microwaves it, so knowing its doing its 'thing' in the flask is fantastic. Student daughter is home this weekend and she is going to give it a go too.
Thank you so much.

welshcakes

Great! I insist on feeding up kids before school in this awful wintery weather so I'm going to try flask-making the night before - nothing worse that burnt milk smell!

nickyc_2

tried this last night & really pleased with result....I prefer to use milk so I heated milk in jug in microwave and then poured into flask with the oats.

this morning it was cooked just fine. found it wasn't quite hot enough for me..but 30secs in microwave did the trick and was certainly quicker and easier than making in the morning....by the time the kettle had boiled the porridge was in bowl ready to eat.

MushyPeas

Wow, what a great idea Just to double check how it's done....did you put oats and then hot water/milk in a flask at about what time? Then what time did you open in the morning to find it was cooked? I'm v. excited about this as I keep buying breakfast at work.

**purpleprincess**

MushyPeas wrote:

Wow, what a great idea Just to double check how it's done....did you put oats and then hot water/milk in a flask at about what time? Then what time did you open in the morning to find it was cooked? I'm v. excited about this as I keep buying breakfast at work.

Ditto!!! I'd like to know the basic instructions!!

How good would that be to eat my porridge at work in the morning!!!

1sttimer_2

This looks good Minerva, I've cooked rice this way but never thought about porridge. I've been having those instant sachets but they don't taste the same as 'real' porridge but don't have the time in the morning, I tend to lay in bed and dash out at the last minute

Should be very good slimming wise too as if it was all ready and waiting then there's less chance to nibble on high calorie things

Waiting for your quantities then going to have a go. BTW was it a food flask (wide necked) or a normal one?

julianj1

Minerva: you have re-invented an old survival/frugality technique.

I came across Kurt Saxon's website last year (crazed rightwing US survivalist, those of you who don't know who he is, you are better in your ignorance :-) ) while looking through outdoorsy links and it had a section on cooking in a thermos flask. Basically works wonders for anything like soup/casserole/rice n stuff: just cook the material for a few minutes in a pan, preheat the flask by pouring hot water in it then emptying. Put in the food, and leave for a few hours and it is cooked - tastes wonderful too as no flavour is lost.

organic_wanabe

Right will certainly try doing porridge this way when I find out whether you can use any flask or just a wide-necked one (if its the latter then I'll have to wait till after Santa's been). Can 1sttime or juilianj1 give precise details for doing rice rice by this method. Many thanks.