Quick cook type sachets of oaty cereal

[sammyc]

Have you ever done as suggested and measured the milk in the paper sachet?

..has it ever resulted in an 'incident'?

No further questions.

[Rob_B]

Yes.

Spillage yes, "incident" sounds a little more serious

[sammyc]

I will say, I haven't tried it, I took one look at it and thought.. no. #bottledit

So no incident here.

[virtuo]

There seems to be one flavour of a certain brand that the sachets never seem to be water tight, so I have milk dripping everywhere.

Is that an incident?

[peterb]

Never quite seen the point of the sachet quick cook oaty cereals - just take a box of oath cereal, measure out have a cup/mug etc and place in a bowl. Add double the volume of milk (using same mug - better if it is straight sided - more accuracy) and add to said oath cereal. Microwave for 4 minutes. Job done.

(And a box or bag costs much less than buying it by the sachet)

(Disclaimer - other brands of oaty cereals are available... oh, wait a minute..... )

[Ttaskmaster]

Had spillages, eruptions and enough other kids of 'incident', mostly involving awful flavours, that I now only ever use the saucepan!

[sammyc]

Dripping is pretty good, never even thought of that danger (less points for all over the floor than all over your clothes/shoes/dog/cat, though).

Spillages & eruptions, even better - some sort of drastic 'up and over' is definitely along the lines I was picturing.

peterb: I hardly ever cave in & buy any sort of single-portion thing, but in this case... no microwave. Sachets are for when too lazy or cold to stand about stirring longer than the 2 mins or so.
Draw the line at the single pots though, on price (actually even if cheap I wouldn't, as they are horrible ).