McCANN’S Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal, 16 Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
McCANN’S Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal, 16 Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
McCANN’S Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal, 16 Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6) Reviews
for my mother. I use the regular steel cut oats, but mom just didn’t like the idea of a cereal that would take about 30 minutes to cook. In my opinion the quick cooking is not as good as the regular oats. Not quite as nutty, a little blander. But the difference was not really as marked as say, the difference between good old 3 minute oats and instant (ickey)oatmeal. Mom loved it, the flavour and the convenience.
The price is really good. While we have been unable to find the regular steel cut oats locally we did find McCanns quick cooking at a local market, for double Amazon’s price. And as always shipping was fast.
I made a mistake on this review, I thought I was reviewing the other quick cooking variety of McCann’s, the variety that looks like the long cooking kind and tastes like it. This variety is just as awful as american instant oatmeal, mushy texture and taste, the kids and I hated it. I wish I could change the rating of my review to a 1, but I cannot.
My partner introduced me to this a few years ago. This oatmeal tastes way better than Quaker Oats, and cooks quickly. It has a great texture, not at all like wallpaper paste, and tastes good even without additives.
When we’re going to have a really long morning, we substitute soy milk for the water and add a little brown sugar. It keeps us going for hours.
The “add water” packeted hot cereals are unfit for use as glue. Steel cut oats, a great thing, require cooking worthy of a breakfast turducken. Between are the varied offerings of pastries and cold cereal with characters (I like Cap’n Crunch, the Cap’n, not so much the cereal) or the healthy items if unexciting to the eye from Trader Joe’s.
And this, a fine morning repast easily prepared, but not such that it can be done without attention and craft. It allows for variation: Vanilla, salt, brown sugar, dried bananas, mangosteen. It allows the eater to feel both a primitive in touch with earth’s grains and an urbane sophisticate preparing a meal of yuppie-store grains in a microwave. The ne plus ultra of breakfast!
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