steel cut vs. quick

Made butterscotch oat cookies and had only steel cut oats. They did not substitue well. Cookies were flat and gritty. (I we still ate them!)

There's a new version of "quick cooking" steel cut oats by McCann and Trader Joe's sells a version under their own name. 7 or 8 minutes to cook.

I get those McCann's five-minute (actually takes more like 10) steel cut oats. They've been around for at least a few years. I've only seen them at Whole Foods and Happy Foods, not at Trader Joe's.

I think if you tried to substitute even the five-minute steel cut oats, you'd have a problem, because the steel-cut oats just take so much longer to cook and have more of a "bite." I've almost tried substituting when I was hankering for oatmeal cookies though.

Sorry about your cookies. Now I have a Who song going through my head.