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Do I need to wash oatmeal before cooking: what every housewife should know
27.04.2022 10:15
Updated: 09.04.2023 02:01
Oatmeal is a popular "morning" dish. Its advantage is the relative speed of preparation - it will take no more than half an hour to wait.
If we are talking about "fast" flakes, then heat treatment is completely useless.
However, many housewives are wondering: “Do I need to wash oats?”. The fact is that with buckwheat and many other cereals, such a procedure should be carried out.
It is possible that a lot of dust and other unnecessary components could get into the product.
So do you need to wash oatmeal?
Experienced chefs remind that this food product undergoes multiple processing by the manufacturer.
That is why no dirt should remain on the oatmeal.
The presence of dust is not excluded. However, here we are talking, rather, not about the dusty, but about the flour "shell".
If you thoroughly rinse the oats, the dish will lose its external “protection” and gluten.
As a result, the porridge will not get a viscous consistency. In addition, there may be problems with the digest of the product.
Thus, it is not worth washing the oatmeal until the water becomes transparent.
In some cases, washing is not enough
There are a couple of situations when you need to wash oatmeal. First of all, we are talking about the presence of a large amount of husk in the flakes.
It is clearly present in a product that is cheap.
It is desirable to remove this husk. This is easy to do, because they instantly float in liquids.
In addition, the product should be washed if the gourmet does not want to eat too viscous porridge.
