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[matt6150]

Is it worth using these at all? I picked up a couple lbs. a while back thinking I would use them in something. Well wasn't thinking at the time that I would have to pre-cook them. Is is worth going through a cereal mash for a better flavor or is using quick oats just as good. Also what is a quick and easy way to cook/cereal mash these?

[Mya]

Is it worth using these at all? I picked up a couple lbs. a while back thinking I would use them in something. Well wasn't thinking at the time that I would have to pre-cook them. Is is worth going through a cereal mash for a better flavor or is using quick oats just as good. Also what is a quick and easy way to cook/cereal mash these?

honestly I just cooked then like I was making breakfast, put them in the mash tun hot and deducted the water content from my strike in bill, and a couple hands full of rice hulls

 

 

but, plain rolled oats do the same job, and no precook

[Mynameisluka]

how else would you brew a beer named "steel cut stout" without steel cut oats?

[Stout_fan]

how else would you brew a beer named "steel cut stout" without steel cut oats?

Use standard advertising practices?

[Mya]

Use standard advertising practices?  Lie

FTFY

[Stout_fan]

FTFY

thank you captain obvious.

[dmtaylor]

In general, steel cut oats are a pain in the rear that ain't worthwhile.  Whether you eat them or put them in your beer, they're inferior to all the other options.  Cereal mash is required -- cook 'em up, then add to your mash.  Flaked oats or good old Quaker quick oats are a whole heck of a lot easier, no cereal mash required, and probably even more tasty.

 

I do use steel cut oats in my haggis, but only because it's tradition.  Adds a little more texture and less mush to the haggis.  But this is the only real exception to the rule.  Otherwise, steel cut oats kind of suck.

[Beerbecue]

I've used cooked steel cut oats in a couple of beers and came to the conclusion that they aren't worth the trouble.

[Mya]

I've used cooked steel cut oats in a couple of beers and came to the conclusion that they aren't worth the trouble.

pretty much

 

I prefer their texture in breakfast oatmeal, but since I mostly don't eat that anyway, meh