/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Depends on how many grit you eat

>>12782336
If you're an athlete, you can probably get better performance out of grits. But for the layperson, switching to oatmeal and especially steel cut oats would be an improvement. Less blood sugar spike, slower digestion, and longer sustain.

>>12782336
>is corn healthy
What do you think?

The only utility for grits is as a vehicle to consume more butter, cheese, and fat. But you're better off just eating butter, cheese, and fat without the grits.

>>12782697
>better off just eating butter, cheese, and fat
Is this a real dish?

Grits are delicious. If you're going to eat it for breakfast, just make sure it's before you go to the gym or something, and use the fast carbs to go harder than usual.

>>12782336
>or will it just turn to sugar
...What?

>>12782336
Eggs, grits, biscuits, and sasage gravy
The most kino of all breakfast

>>12782336
>Is this a healthy breakfast or will it just turn to sugar?
It's moderate glycemic, depending on stone ground vs "instant" grits (finer grind, less whole grain). But, it's nixtamal/hominy, not cornmeal, so there's more accessible nutrition from the corn, mainly decent amount of iron and B vitamins. Does it measure up against oatmeal better for insoluble fiber and blood glucose reasons? Prolly not, but it's comfy and harmless. It's not bad for you, kind of low cal, and it's more versatile...morphs nicely to go with some shrimp as much as some runny fried egg or sausage, or some gravy rich main or even cheese.

I have grits in my rotation of a nice breakfast bowl. Microwave the grits, crack on a raw egg, top with ham, bacon or sausage, nuke again. And, while it cooks and cools on it's own, I'm getting my shower, and ready for the day. Top with some cracked pepper, maybe butter or cheddar. Very easy with precooked frozen sausage patties, and the egg kind of poaches all nestled in the grits.

>>12782682
whats the deal with steel cut vs rolled?

What do you guys think of cream of wheat?

>>12783069
mozzarella sticks

grits are great for you.

>>12783503
I like mine with chopped up bacon, cheese, grilled onions, and grilled bell peppers.

>>12783673
that sound really good

>>12783616
>that iron content
if you ate these every day without bloodletting regularly you would probably become overloaded with a toxic amount of iron, most people dont get a full iron panel blood test to know that they were suffering iron overload for many many many years

>>12783598
>>12783598
Gay

>>12783565
Less processing may mean longer cook times but it also means that it takes your body longer to digest and absorb. Instant oats will spike your blood faster than rolled oats, which will do it faster than steel cut, which will do it faster than whole groats. The reason I don't go all the way to groats is because I really enjoy the texture of steel-cut, but everybody draws their line somewhere. (And hey, on lazy or short days I'll pop a Bob's instant-oats into the microwave...)

>>12785391
>groats

>>12784166
Just men, actually. Women who menstruate are typically iron deficient. Men, especially men who consume more red meat or cook in cast iron, have so much iron it can contribute to heart disease.

>>12783565
>whats the deal with steel cut vs rolled?
Oftentimes, it's the same thing. First, a kernel of oat is like a seed that you can't digest until you get through the outer hull. Horses and cattle chew the hell out of it with their sideways grinding, and poop out a lot of it undigested anyway. We don't want that much insoluble fiber swelling up in us, and we want to get some nutrition.

So, nearly the same some of the time, and actually the same some of the time. Check the picture or read the details. When it says pinhead oats, that's the real steel cut that people distinguish nutritionally, where the little grain is oat is literally just sliced in half from a blade. Sometimes that's called irish or scottish style steel cut. Too be rolled is flattened and pressed into a little disc, and that could be done with a steel cutter too, so you can be disappointed to open a package of steel cut and see they're all rolled out. But, hopefully all of the external bran and nutrition doesn't fall off, but some might, but anyway, the inside is revealed to be digested and nutritionally rich. So in the order of nutrition, the pinhead steel cut has all of the external nutrition in place, and rolled is almost as good. From a gourmand standpoint, the more whole grain pinhead oats are chewy kind of like wheatberries, and nutty esp if you toast them first, and nearly a completely different beast in texture, though flavor is the same. All the positive health studies on oatmeal for slow digestion and grabbing onto dietary fat, blood glucose, and cardiovascular protective effects are the longest cooking rolled type. Either one will do. Just stay away from quick.

>>12786602
Thank you for explaining it. I love steel cut, as you said, it's chewy and nutty, and a heaven with butter on a cold morning.

>>12782336
You're a dummy if you think all those carbs are healthy in any way

>>12786556
Did you learn a new word today, anon?

>>12786556
>>12786659
It makes everything taste like peaches

https://youtu.be/SAl__7ia1xg

>>12786631
I out in dried fruits and nuts.
It all gets sift as it cooks.

>>12784796
why?

>>12782682
>Less blood sugar spike
listen bud, blood sugar spikes are only bad for diabetics. A regular person wants their blood sugar to spike so they will stop eating too much. Blood sugar spikes suppress appetite.

>>12787569
I eat fatty low carb foods and i seem to get a signal to stop eating after about 600 calories

>>12787591
and blood sugar spikes aren't even bad for diabetics either. As long as they take insulin quickly they will be fine.

some foods that delay blood sugar spikes make it harder for the diabetic to time their insulin right for it to work correctly and keep them healthy.

>>12787656
But doesnt a blood sugar spike trigger fat storage?

>>12786631
I like them but sometimes i still prefer rolled.
Very different flavors

>>12788002
>But doesnt a blood sugar spike trigger fat storage?
If you're eating fat, it will be stored anyway. Fat isn't burned up quickly like sugar.
The body has lots of places to park glucose (muscles and liver, mostly) before initiating the process of converting sugar into fat and storing it as body-fat, which is a last resort. And like I said, blood sugar spikes suppress appetite. Controlling appetite is the most important way to reduce body-fat. It makes no sense to eat fat to suppress blood-sugar spikes because the spikes supposedly trigger fat storage.

>>12788391
>If you're eating fat, it will be stored anyway.
Not true.
Sugar is far more easily stored as fat than fat in your diet is.
Dietary fat has to be broken down before it can even enter the bloodstream.

>>12782336
I'm a vegan athlete and on days I get tired of oats for breakfast I have a big bowl of grits with lots black pepper and nutritional yeast. It's really good and a nice change from oatmeal w/fruit.

>>12787569
That's a pretty out of date view, anon. There's more to blood sugar than diabetes, and there's more to low-GI foods than helping diabetics.

>>12788443
>I'm a vegan athlete
Kek

>>12786648
Carbs are not the enemy anon