The reason why oatmeal is pressed to make raw oatmeal is because oatmeal is not easy to cook and boil. After pressing, the seed coat of the oats cracks open and the raw oatmeal can absorb water more quickly and be cooked more easily than oatmeal rice. Therefore, raw oatmeal is not the same as oatmeal rice. Oatmeal rice is best soaked in water for a few hours before cooking rice or porridge, while raw oatmeal does not need to be soaked before cooking porridge or rice
Raw oatmeal porridge, only need to be boiled before cooking on a low heat for 5 to 10 minutes to cook, cooked to 20 minutes to cook the paste. Some people eat oatmeal porridge, like to eat cooked very mushy very rotten. But it is not recommended to eat too mushy and too rotten oatmeal, one will lose some of the vitamins, and the second is too mushy and too rotten oatmeal is absorbed too quickly, postprandial blood glucose to postprandial blood glucose is relatively large.
It's a good idea to cook rice with raw oatmeal and rice, and the ratio can be one-third to one-half. Since raw oatmeal is still relatively easy to cook, you don't need to soak it in advance, just add it to the pot with the rice in the normal cooking procedure. Cooked oatmeal rice has a very strong wheat flavor.
Some people worry that raw oatmeal is not easy to cook, so they will soak it in advance. It's not a big problem if you soak it for an hour or two, but you will lose some water-soluble vitamins. But if soaked overnight, that is not appropriate. Especially when the ambient temperature is high, soaking overnight is enough time to propagate a lot of bacteria.