A bowl of homemade oatmeal that doesn’t take an hour

Oatmeal is a breakfast that seems to require more than humankind is able to give right now. There’s a reason that most of the oatmeal people eat is instant — breakfast is often a choice of convenience. Quaker even introduced the “Oatmeal to Go” bar, which sounds like an oxymoron.

But oatmeal has morphed into its current, lumpy sugar-aided form because the average person isn’t necessarily sure to what to do with raw oats. Or believes (often correctly) that there’s not enough time for them to cook. Like grits, it seems like something our mother would make. Even oatmeal cookies are the classic second-fiddle dessert.