Oats

For a food that has been around for 1000s of years there sure is a lot of confusion about Oatmeal, Quick Oats, Rolled Oats, Steel Cut Oats and Whole Oats.

I listened to some moron at the local "healthy" store attempt to explain the difference to me. He prattled on about how This is better than That and These have a better "mouth-feel" than Those and then realized after his second contradictory statement that this guy really had no idea what he was talking about.

5 minutes with an iPhone, Google and Wikipedia proved that nearly everything the guy told me was flat-out wrong. He must have just been making shit up.

Read about it here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel-cut_oats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolled_oats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groats

Follow Up: Steel Cut Oats Rule! Had a batch of McCanns this morning and they beat both rolled oats and my regular 7-grain blend from Sprouts hands down.