Saw a recipe for blueberry oatmeal in an Aroma rice cooker so curious as to how this work with oats. Following the recipe it asks for 1 cup of oats, 1/2 cup of blueberries, 1/2 tbsp of brown sugar or coconut sugar, cinnamon to taste and 2 cups of milk or water at a 1:2 ratio. Rice cooker will take around 40 minutes to cook the oatmeal using the White Rice setting.
What concerns me about this is that rice cookers turn off when the rice has absorbed the liquid in the pot. Oatmeal tends to come out more soupy, so would the sensor be different for this situation? Would it be risky to use milk in the rice cooker as it could easily scorch on the bottom of the pot? Water would be safer but less sweet tasting. Would the blueberries go in with the rest of the oats or would someone stir them in near the end? It would make sense to put them in at the beginning so they dissolve after 40 minutes but that would make it purple…ish. It seems the half tbsp of sweetener would be less than plenty for taste but the blueberries would add to that.
I wonder if anyone has tried this out and seen if it worked out without a scorched ring on the bottom of the rice cooker bowl.
What concerns me about this is that rice cookers turn off when the rice has absorbed the liquid in the pot. Oatmeal tends to come out more soupy, so would the sensor be different for this situation? Would it be risky to use milk in the rice cooker as it could easily scorch on the bottom of the pot? Water would be safer but less sweet tasting. Would the blueberries go in with the rest of the oats or would someone stir them in near the end? It would make sense to put them in at the beginning so they dissolve after 40 minutes but that would make it purple…ish. It seems the half tbsp of sweetener would be less than plenty for taste but the blueberries would add to that.
I wonder if anyone has tried this out and seen if it worked out without a scorched ring on the bottom of the rice cooker bowl.