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Originally Posted by hbee Next time, try putting it in a seperate bowl. I put a canning ring in the bottom of the crock pot, a 2 quart pyrex bowl with the oatmeal mixture on top, then I fill the crock with water to about 3/4 of the way to the top of the pyrex bowl. Keeps the oatmeal from drying out.

Yup. This is what I do, more or less. I just put the glass pyrex bowl in the crock pot (no canning ring), and I only put about two inches of water or so in there. We do oatmeal this way about 4-5 times a week, steel cut, large flake rolled, whatever is on-hand. Clean up is a snap and the water just has to be dumped out of the crock.