Product: Kitchenware
Power Spurtle   (+4)  [vote for, against]
Partly inspired by [pashute]'s idea for better chocolate milk, and my own desire for better oatmeal / porridge without lumps...

A common spurtil* often has a rod-like shape so porridge can be stirred without congealing and forming lumps. The low surface area reduces the chances of porridge sticking to the instrument.

The Power Spurtle has a series of small holes near the tip, which are fed by a central tube inside the device, connected to a pressurized supply of boiling water. To make perfect porridge, you first put DRY oatmeal into the pot (or directly into a serving bowl, if making only one portion). Then you push the spurtel* into the dry oats and turn on the hot water supply and start stirring. When the volume of oats & water nears the top of the mixing container, turn the pressure down so that no more water is added - but maintaining a minimum internal pressure to prevent porridge backflow into the spirtle*.

Please DO be careful to turn the water on at a reasonable pressure only AFTER the tip of the spartle* is in the oats - and turn it OFF when withdrawing. Manufacturer will not be responsible for injuries or other messes cause by waving around a rod spurting hot gooey liquids.

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* valid variant spelling
-- a1, Mar 01 2024

[pashute]'s idea Chocolate_20Milk_20Maker
[a1, Mar 01 2024]

How do you spell SPURTLE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurtle
[a1, Mar 01 2024]

Could use superheated steam for making a porridgchino.
-- pocmloc, Mar 02 2024


Is there an advantage to this model over existing in-faucet heaters?
-- normzone, Mar 05 2024


[norm] I cannot answer your question until I have taken a bowl of dry oats into the shower and sprayed the water into the bowl.

<later> the shower jets are too powerful, they splatter the dried oats out of the bowl, and spray them all around the shower cubicle, so I end up with an empty clean bowl, with both myself and the walls all covered with bits of congealing semi-cooked porridge. So I can answer fairly confidently that a specially designed device as proposed is far superior to just using the shower.
-- pocmloc, Mar 05 2024


Safer, apparently, than the industrial paint stirring paddle as it doesn't require the cook to put the porridge pot on the floor. Plus the steam thing.
-- whatrock, Mar 05 2024



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