If I leave the top off the slow-cooker?

[SCT]

I am trying some soaked grains for breakfast. Don't have many, because silly Bob's Red Mill 10 grain has wheat in it and I don't do gluten! But anyway, I put brown rice, steel oats and rolled oats in the slow cooker, covered with boiling water, and then turned on to low and left the top off. Will that work? Or should the soaking water not boil first, maybe? What happens if I leave the top off the cooker overnight?

Anyone know?

[Shels]

Water boils at 212 degrees, right?
That would cook your food.

[Aleesha Sattva]

the only rice you can soak and sprout is wild rice (from what i know)... i believe the others are treated so they are no longer raw.

as for soaking... i just add cold water to whatever i'm soaking and put it in the fridge overnight. works like a charm.

if i'm sprouting, i put it in a jar with water and a lid and in the dehydrator for 12 hours.

[SCT]

I think I was supposed to grind it. Hmm. I think I was supposed to use 200 degree water; not quite boiling.

[JennaHoneyBear]

I think I was supposed to grind it. Hmm. I think I was supposed to use 200 degree water; not quite boiling.

any temperature over 115 degrees will destroy the quality of your raw food.
soaking in room temp water will work just fine for oats. you would need to sprout the rice, though, and that might take a couple of days

[Baby Bird]

Don't oats contain gluten?

[JennaHoneyBear]

Don't oats contain gluten?

nope, but they are often processed in a factory that also processes gluten-containing grains

[streetsurfer]

Bob's Red Mill makes a gluten free grain cereal called might tasty hot cereal. The grains are all cracked/ground so they might work well with a cold overnight soak as Aleesha mentioned and make a mighty tasty cold cereal. It contains corn, buckwheat, whole grain brown rice and white sorghum

I'm not sure how they'd do in a crock pot uncovered. I think no lid and the heat escaping is going to cause the pot to keep heating continually, or at least to more often be in the heating mode, raising your temperatures.

[streetsurfer]

I tried the mighty tasty hot cereal soaked in cold almond milk. It did not turn out good at all. Was like chewing dry wheat. All it made me think of was that if I kept chewing for twenty minutes I could have bubble gum (it's a wheat thing). Sorry, I thought it might be good.