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Jess
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Posted: July 10 2008 at 7:55am \| IP Logged

I soaked some irish oats overnight to have for breakfast this morning, and I followed the directions on the package. When I went to stir them before I reheated them I saw that there was green stuff on the top. Has anyone had this happen? Do you think it's mold?

Now I have to come up with something else for breakfast, and we were looking forward to some irish oatmeal

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Posted: July 10 2008 at 9:23am \| IP Logged

I can't imagine that it would mold overnight. I soak steel cut oats overnight all the time and I've never seen mold. Was it maybe just the skin that develops when cooking or the foamy goop from soaking?

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Posted: July 10 2008 at 9:42am \| IP Logged

I thought that too at first, but why would it be green? I decided not to take a chance. Do steel cut oats go bad? They aren't super old but we have had them for awhile. Do they need to be refrigerated? I kept the opened box in the pantry.

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 8:22am \| IP Logged

I make Irish oats all the time for my kids. I've never had a green skin on the top. There will be a skin, that's normal. Is it possible that your oats came into contact with something copper? Wet copper quickly turns green. It could be a copper lid, or spoon??

I hope it won't discourage you from trying again - they're wonderful!

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 1:28pm \| IP Logged

Maybe it's green because they are *Irish* oats?

(Okay; I'll just lurk on back to where I came from...)

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 1:40pm \| IP Logged

Nancy, you are actually the second person who has said that

I really like them too and we will eat them again, but next time I buy them we will keep them in the fridge after the box is opened, plus we'll eat them faster too

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