Offering six grams of fiber and assorted whole grain oat ingredients including: pyridoxine hydrochloride, acesulfame potassium, and maltodextrin.
Morris said that he had been experimenting with water content, bowl structure, and microwave time for several months. He worked tirelessly to find the best way to cook a bowl of oatmeal without making a mess in the company microwave, lest he hear from senior marketing specialist Beth Steinkatz who Morris called, "the kitchen cleanliness police chief".
"I don't really know what I did to cook my oatmeal for two minutes straight without spilling over the bowl's edge," Morris said humbly. What is clear is that Morris reduced the amount of water used to an amount between too much and too little, used a deeper Crate and Barrel Roulette Blue Band Bowl, and got very lucky.
The bowl that cooked a perfect packet of maple and brown sugar instant oatmeal.
An underachieving overthinker, Morris spent each morning trying different combinations to cook his Weight Control oatmeal pouches. Unable to grasp the concept of recording each test's settings to fine tune the next day's controls, every cooking event was an absolute shot in the dark to not spill. Like stumbling upon a wad of 100-dollar bills, Morris has not been able to cook a clean bowl of oatmeal since.
"Each morning I shake all of those oats and powder into my bowl, run it under the water cooler, and toss it into the microwave for two minutes," Morris said. "I use the light inside the microwave to watch the oatmeal bubble. Sometimes I act too late to stop some slop from going over the edge, but I clean it up at least. I always get blamed for a messy microwave even though it's impossible for oatmeal to shoot up to the ceiling and look like tomato sauce."
Looks like somebody forgot to put a paper towel on that Lean Cuisine.
A newly self-minted expert on heat conduction and dispersion, Morris said heat transfer journals and books increased his understanding of the forces at work. "Anyone with half a brain knows that Welty, Wicks, and Wilson were talking about my oatmeal's properties in 'Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer.' NOTM pressed Morris for further explanation.
"They claimed that 'A fluid is defined as a substance that deforms continuously under the action of sheer stress' which I also observed when I added too much water," Morris said. "My oatmeal is the best example of compressibility's effects yet. Those guys should have used my workday breakfast to better relate to a bunch of college kids." Morris claimed he has read more than the free preview pages on Amazon.com, but NOTM has no reason to believe him.
Somewhere, someone understands how this graph of thermodynamics applies to a bowl of microwaved oatmeal; and it's not Morris Herlis.
The key to observing a bowl of microwaved oatmeal, Morris said, is to keep the kitchen lights off so the microwave light is not washed out. Using this revolutionary method, Morris observed that his oatmeal had, in fact, survived 120 consecutive seconds without spillage. He jumped in the air and pumped his fist. Unfortunately, no co-workers were in yet so they could not celebrate with him as Morris undoubtedly thinks would have happened.
Morris opened the door and grabbed his steaming bowl without his trusty heat dispersion paper towels. Despite the ever-increasing skin burn, Morris tried to carry the bowl to his office by saying, "owww, owwww, hot hot hot." It was not enough.
Morris dropped his perfect bowl of oatmeal, choosing to make a mess of the hallway instead of third-degree burns. An hour later, oatmeal was still soaking into the carpet, prompting Steinkatz to say, "looks like you can add this cleaning job to your tomato sauce artwork in the microwave."
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