Things could go a few different ways near the bottom of that cereal bowl:
1. Drowning in white. You poured 2 fast and 2 furious and overfilled the bowl. Now after you spoon up those last few soggy Honey Nut Cheerios you’re left with a good inch of sloshy, super-saturated, sandy-colored syrup at the bottom. Well, the damage is done, so I say bottoms up to that. Just tilt your head, tilt your bowl, and say hello to a peppy morning full of jitters and fast-talking.
2. Corn Flake beach. Here’s where you end up with too much cereal and not enough milk. You first notice it when you’re halfway through your bowl and those Corn Flakes seem a bit too crunchy for their own good. So you look down and notice you’re swimming in the wading pool, my friend. Assuming you’re out of milk or are very lazy you have to frantically start rationing, aiming for just enough milk on each spoonful to get by. Let’s hope you make it and don’t end up with a fat lump of slightly damp Corn Flakes sitting pathetically in the corner of your bowl.
3. Cereal Bowl Bliss. Oh mama, this here’s the perfect milk to cereal jackpot. Maybe you’re like my friend Mu, who has lifted the art of obtaining Cereal Bowl Bliss into a noble, decades-long search for perfection. Yes, he has studied milk absorption for years, and knows that a bowl of Froot Loops and a bowl of Frosted Flakes have nothing in common other than a mascot who lives in the jungle. See, Mu points out those Froot Loops float high and dry while the Frosted Flakes are like crispy sponges that require a lot more milk to make it through. And then there’s the bowl itself. Sure, a big, deep bowl may look great when you pull it out of the cupboard, but watch out for the illusion of size. You may end up drowning in white if you’re not careful. Lastly, if you’re ready for Advanced Milking, you may be interested in the patient art of The Sit, which involves letting your beautiful bowl of cereal just lay on the counter for a good minute or two before eating. This will allow your cereal to soak up a consistent amount of milk, and prevents those dreaded bone dry first bites of crunchiness which offset your whole ratio. Remember: this is Advanced Milking, folks. Not for the faint of heart or extremely hungry.
Anyway, when you get the milk and cereal ratio just right at breakfast, you’re all aces, my friend. And when you hit it, you hit it, and you know you hit it, because that last spoonful goes down smooth and sweet without a hint of drowning in white or surfing up onto Corn Flake Beach. So nailing the perfect amount of milk in that big breakfast bowl of cereal?
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mmmm.
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Mmmm… Froot Loops. The best-slash-worst breakfast ever…
My husband pours in the milk and then the cereal. It drives me crazy!!! His ratios are off every time while mine are almost always perfection.
I’ve NEVER heard of anyone pouring in the milk first! That is one unique hubby you’e got there, Sara!
Ugh, I HATE the milk in the cereal bowl. I think its disgusting so I always drain in out of my spoon before taking my bite of cereal. But I still work hard to make sure the cereal I do eat is properly saturated. Oftentimes it takes so long to avoid the sugary milk that my last few bites are very, very soggy :p
I actually haven’t put milk on my cereal since a was little. Nowadays I just eat it dry. And speaking of cereal, once in a grocery store I saw banana and nut flavoured Cheerios, apple and cinnamon flavoured Cheerios, and chocolate flavoured Cheerios! I never knew there were so many different varieties if cereal. I always get a shock when I step into a food store and realize just how much food is there, and how all of it is from all around the world.
Oops, my Spelling Senses are tingling. I meant “varieties of cereal.”. Sorry everyone, it’s just one of those days today.
I’m sorry, Max, we just can’t tolerate those kinds of mistakes around here. I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to leeve.
…Oh, crap.
I’ll see myself out.
Oh! I see what you did there. Well done, lovethebadguy.
It’s an art to put perfect amount of milk in cereals like putting the desire amount of tea to make a hot tea cup :) the perfect ratio of both the milk and the tea leaves makes the breakfast awesome