Slow cooker porridge and freezing

lookstraightahead

What a lovely part of the forum, it feels lovely and cosy!

Could I ask a couple of questions? I work full time and would love to take reasonably healthy home made porridge to work every day. I have access to a microwave.

I'm thinking of slow cooking a batch, they maybe freezing individual portions. Is this even possible? Can you freeze porridge and what's a good recipe?

I don't have time to make it every day but I want it to taste home made.

Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

Farway

Not tried freezing, but bog standard porridge, one portion, only takes around 3 minutes in a microwave anyway so I can't see any advantage

If you took your container with uncooked porridge + liquid in to work & just nuke it there? Fresh & home made, unless you make it differently of course

Brambling

I have a microwave lidded bowl from Sistema I think they call it their breakfast bowl. The night before I add my porridge oats, and liquid (I use half water to milk) at work I microwave for a minute stir and repeat. It usually takes a couple of minutes sometimes an extra 30 seconds.

buildersdaughter

Freezing porridge does not work - it makes it gloopy.
I used to take porridge to work in 2 ways: 1 was in a wide nick thermos. But when I had access to a microwave, I did as the others here do. I'd usually add some dried fruit.
I also usually took the dried oats, with a spoonful of dried milk powder in and added water at work, but I know some prefer the softening that begins when you add liquid earlier.
Just a bit of trial and error to find what works best for you - it will taste nice whichever way you do it.

Doom_and_Gloom

When I have forgotten to batch cook in my multi cooker and portion porridge into the fridge I soak the porridge overnight in the fridge like overnight oats and microwave for a few minutes. Overnight oats are fine but this time of year I prefer the porridge warm at the very least.
Frozen wouldn't really work as stated.
I'd advise on the overnight soak method and microwave in the morning.

Owain_Moneysaver

lookstraightahead wrote: »

What a lovely part of the forum, it feels lovely and cosy!

We're actually all shivering under three duvets made out of old horse-blankets reading by the light of a candle we made with our own earwax.

Mistral001

It takes very little time to microwave a portion as has been said and it does not take much more time to make it traditionally in a saucepan - 5/6 minutes if you use boiling water from the kettle.

Cooking it in large batches and then freezing, just seems like a way of creating more work for yourself.

JIL

Why not try the mortgage free in three recipe.
I make this and it's excellent, I think the blog owner has had some problems with the site and it's down at the moment.
Once made you just add boiling water.

I believe the recipe is available on Pinterest.

Farway

You could experiment at home with nuking from fresh if you are a bit wary of jumping in at work without trying it

I use the soak overnight method, but the ooops I forgot to soak it also works

batg

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

We're actually all shivering under three duvets made out of old horse-blankets reading by the light of a candle we made with our own earwax.

:rotfl: that made me lol

Nicki

I tend to make 4 servings of porridge in the instant pot overnight on Sunday. I eat one on Monday morning and put the other 3 in those sistema bowls someone else mentioned and put in fridge. They take 90 seconds in my microwave to get to the temp I like and keep all week (I had the 4th bowl of last Sunday's batch this morning).

I prefer this to heating up overnight oats which don't seem to soften enough for my liking.

It's the highlight of my working week waking up to hot porridge on Monday mornings (how sad is that!)