Steel Cut Oats

You'd be right about that!
Oprah is probably one of the LAST things i'd watch!   Dont get me started on a rant about that woman... 

I'm with you on that! In fact, that might make me avoid steel cut oats! Irrational, I know, but I don't like taking advice from Oprah! 

I find pinhead oats easily up here, but this is Scotland  .

They are better in some baked goods, but you can also take rolled ones and gently blitz them in a food processor once or twice in an emergency and get the same level of courseness.

I like Oatmeal of the Alford brand - for both pinhead and fine-milled.

Or Heatherslaw Mills - Northumberland.

I'm with you on that! In fact, that might make me avoid steel cut oats! Irrational, I know, but I don't like taking advice from Oprah! 

  Yeah, just joshing. 

I find they have a lovely nutty flavour and are less mushy than the rolled ones.  I may have them for brekkie tomorrow - thanks!!

For me, the bigger and thicker the oats, the better. I had trouble finding anything bigger than porridge oats in ASDA, Sainsburys or Tesco. Finally found them in a local independent market - called "jumbo oats". 
It sounds as though these are the exact opposite of steel cut oats?? If so, how are steel cut oats different from 'quick oats'?

On a side note, even the jumbo ones I found seem a little too fine and flimsy to me and it's still a bit too easy to over-cook them. The absolute best I've tasted are those that I found on a visit to Germany, from a company called Al-Natura. The 'Gross Blatt' oats have a lot more thickness and texture than anything I've found in the UK, or back in the US for that matter.

Steel cut oats are small and hard, a bit like tiny pellets.  Quick oats = rolled oats, they're soft to the touch in their raw state.  Steel cut oats = Irish oats (e.g. McCann's Irish Oatmeal) and take longer to cook than the rolled oats.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Steel_Cut_Oats_008_A.jpg

Ah - very different from what I was picturing; sounds worth trying them. Thanks.