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Sure, but you want to go as hot as possible to get the oats cooked. Besides, I wanted to be as quick as possible. Like, quick oats, you know? ;-)

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The power setting just pauses the power for % time like your doing manually. I do 70% for my oats in a big bowl so the bubbles die down before the power repeats.

I would have to try that but since I never measured exact amounts, I preferred to pause upon visual inspection, as in: as soon as the milk started bubbling, I stopped and stirred.

Nah, sorry, I don’t know.

Rolled oats don’t need to be cooked.

If you want soft outs you can soak them over night in the fridge.

No heat required.

The starch in the oats get released when you heat them up which is the reason the oat meal becomes creamy. The pectin from the apples helps, too.

That isn’t an argument against my claim that rolled oats don’t need to be cooked.

No, they don't need to be cooked, you can certainly eat them raw.

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