Oat and millet, potatoes, together, is as one of the three main grains stand shoulder to shoulder. Many people do not know the first contact, thought this thing is probably high in fat so called "oil wheat". Avena sativa is the "oats" that we are usually not too familiar with ("oats" are often seen in translated novels, and oatmeal is also sold in stores).

Oat flour is naturally oat noodles. Eat oat noodles, the first impression is an indescribable strange flavor. Oat noodles are not like white flour as can be made into steamed buns and rolls and whatnot, it is to roll into thin slices or thin strips, resting on the cage drawer steamed to eat. When eating, must be dipped in salty soup or soy sauce, vinegar and other condiments.

Oat planting and field management does not seem to be very laborious, seed down after seedlings, the only work is hoeing, that is, with a small gripping hoe squatting or half-kneeling in the ground loosening the soil and weeding. The north is sparsely populated, the morning from the ground hoeing, hoeing to the end of the ground is noon, just to go home for dinner. The whole oat field, hoeing two or three times, can not be hoeing again, because the plant has grown high, began to raise flowers and tassels, waiting for the fall harvest. Avena leaves gray-green, not like wheat color as dark. Its spikes, scattered like hair. This kind of inflorescence, the scientific name is "circumscattered inflorescence". The lemmas are large and the seeds are small, and the seeds that are knocked down and removed from the lemmas are long and cylindrical, somewhat like Thai rice.

The biggest feature of oat is its eating method. The so-called "three raw three cooked", that is, from the raw oat to be able to eat oat products, to go through three raw three cooked over