Oatmeal is a quick, easy, hearty, and healthy breakfast, but there are some mistakes everyone makes with oatmeal, including ...

Old-fashioned oats are best for overnight oats, offering a creamy texture without turning mushy. Mix oats with equal parts ...

Quick oats are steamed like rolled oats, but instead of being only partially cooked, they are cooked all the way through. They are also “rolled thinner in order to cook faster and can be ...

Rolled oats (quick or instant). These groats are rolled thinner and/or steamed longer than regular rolled oats. The result is a change in texture and even shorter cooking time.

More specifically, the oats are steamed multiple times, rolled, and then toasted. This processing leaves the oats as thin flakes. Steel cut oats, on the other hand, are just thickly chopped oat ...

Rolled oats are groats that have been flattened, steamed and toasted, a process that makes them more shelf-stable and much quicker to cook. (Rolled oats take 5 to 10 minutes, steel-cut oats more ...

Rather than being steamed and rolled, the whole oat grain is chopped into 2-3 pieces. Steel-cut oatmeal is dense and chewy, but takes much longer to cook.

After that, steel-cut oats are all done, but rolled oats go on to get flattened (the flatter the oat the quicker it cooks) and steamed in rollers. A 2009 study ...

And, because they are processed differently, steel-cut oats are coarsely chopped while rolled oats are steamed, rolled, steamed again, and then toasted.