The ratio of water to regular oatmeal to water is 2 to 1. For typical steel-cut oats, it is 4 to 1. You would reasonably expect variations, some small, for high altitude cooking, thicker rolled oats, parboiled oats (or quick cook varieties), or if you cook using my recommendations such as with very low flames (as suggested with how to cook oatmeal or with how to keep oatmeal from sticking to the pot).

How much water to put in Oatmeal

First: Use as much water as you want to eat.

Second: Add one-half that amount of oatmeal (rolled oats) -- Use an water to oatmeal ratio or proportion of 2 to 1. Or, put another way: 2 parts water for 1 part oatmeal.

• What ever water you boil, add half that amount of oatmeal (rolled oats). Water Oatmeal Proportion examples:
  • 2 cups water -- 1 cup Oatmeal
  • 1 cup water -- 1/2 cup oatmeal
  • 1.5 [one and one-half cups] water -- 3/4 cup of oatmeal.
  • Twice as much water as oats

  The oatmeal to water ratio of 2 to 1 works for rolled oats. For steel cut oats, the proportion is 4 to 1 -- 1 cup of water and 1/4 cup of steel cut oats.

• When you're real tired in the morning, here's a good way to approach feeding yourself and your family:
  • Figure how much you want to feed people -- use that much water. An Oatmeal serving size is 1 cup of water per person, though Quaker's oatmeal containers suggest 1.5 cups of water for a "heart healthy portions".
  • You boil the water, and add the salt (how much salt in oatmeal).
  • You add exactly half as much oatmeal.

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