Although Quaker Oats have been around since the late 1800s, oatmeal was a slow-cook cereal until the mid-1960s, when the company introduced instant oatmeal.

I grind my oats and make them into flour. Put a bit of mashed bananas and egg and then make oat pancakes," Solenn said at last week's Quaker Oats Kitchen Face-off with Luis Manzano.

So, I’m fresh off a red-eye flight from Las Vegas. The town was abuzz for Sunday's Super Bowl. And I came home to a large cylinder of Quaker oats, ironically. In the next few hours I’ll be on ...

They are made by steaming and flattening oat groats, or kernels, into flakes. Rolled oats may be specified as “large flake” to avoid confusing them with quick oats, or quick-cooking oats.

AS A KID, I thought oats were worth eating in one form only — cookies. When confronted with a bowl of Old Fashioned Quaker Oats or its ilk, all I could think of was Oliver Twist sadly begging ...

Quick-cooking rolled oats can be used in many recipes, but they tend to vanish in baked goods and they lack the rich oat flavour or the large flakes. Instant oatmeal is made by rolling the groats ...