# What's your Favorite Hot Cereal on a cold blustery winter day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 9, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819 "2013-02-09T21:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/21 "2013-02-10T04:27:32Z")
Red River Cereal: cracked wheat, cracked rye, cracked flax, whole flax. All other porriges are mush by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/22 "2013-02-10T07:18:11Z")
I used to love Grape Nuts with warm milk and sugar but anymore the cereal tastes kind of waxy. They must have changed it. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/23 "2013-02-10T09:47:24Z")
> [@](#): > > As a kid Mom would make us cream of wheat, nasty. Looked and smelled like wallpaper paste. And a wild guess since I never tasted wallpaper paste…it probably tasted like it too.[URL=“[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=15989616](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=15989616)”] Some types of paste are made from wheat flour, so in fact Cream of Wheat might bear a passing similarity to some wallpaper pastes. Paper mache paste is also made from wheat flour, as is library paste. I’ve never understood the appeal of library paste, and I’ve rarely come into contact with wallpaper paste. I find the smell and taste of cooked Cream of Wheat cereal to be very appealing. Obviously, your mileage varies. If you ever decide to give it another try, make sure that you put water into the pan as soon as you’ve dished up the cereal…or you’ll find out why wheat products are used to make paste! ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/24 "2013-02-10T11:44:43Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > (thick rolled) oatmeal. That’s the key; none of that saw dust sized nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/25 "2013-02-10T13:30:44Z")
Why specficy Maypo brand oatmeal? I like plain oatmeal with brown sugar. Sometimes I’ll add dried apples or pecans or both, but mostly just oatmeal with brown sugar. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/26 "2013-02-10T23:21:27Z")
Steel cut oatmeal. Get it bulk at the grocery store for fifty cents a pound. Make it in the rice cooker which cooks it perfectly al dente. I like to add in some cinnamon and sliced bananas. If I’m out of bananas some dried fruit such as chopped dates or raisins. ---
**Author:** ![Rahne\_McCloud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rahne\_McCloud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rahne_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/27 "2013-02-11T05:46:14Z")
First choice steel cut oatmeal with butter, maple syrup, craisins and chopped nut mix. Second is Wheateena with all of the above. Thirdly is Cream of Wheat again with all of the above. I tend to buy my butter and pure maple syrup at Costco, as well as the oatmeal and craisins. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/28 "2013-02-11T14:18:30Z")
Wheatena. It’s distinct enough from cream of wheat to justify voting other. I haven’t had any since I was a kid, but if I were to go out and buy a box of hot cereal, that would be it. ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/29 "2013-02-11T19:32:16Z")
A week ago I made oatmeal in the oven as follows, it was awesome. 1 1/2 cups water 1/2 cup maple syrup 1 cup oatmeal (not instant) 1 Tbs butter a dash of vanilla extract Mix together in an ovenproof dish. Cover. Place in oven, set oven to cook at 350 F for 1/2 hour. Time it to get done about 15 minutes before you want to eat. Now if I only lived up north.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819/30 "2013-02-11T19:43:30Z")
Another vote for Cream of Wheat. I like it with butter, sugar and cinnamon. So yummy on a cold morning. And like the others who posted, I hate the instant stuff. The regular 2 1/2 minute stuff is fast enough and tastes great! And I miss it terribly. Just couldn’t get it in Budapest and can’t find it now in London! I tend to bring several boxes back with me when I visit the States, and anyone who comes to see me from the States is asked to bring some, too. But I’ve been completely out this whole winter and I am a sad, sad breakfast-eater. Oatmeal runs a far second. ETA: My old cat, Hoover (RIP) LOVED cream of wheat. The first cold morning of a winter I’d make it and he’d just somehow KNOW that it was cream of wheat time! And he’d practically crawl up in my lap to remind me that he got the bowl when I was done! I miss him, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-hot-cereal-on-a-cold-blustery-winter-day/649819.md?page=1)