bring water to boil, add oats & simmer until you like it. time & amt depends on brand package. I slightly cover mine, lid ajar, because I don't like to clean oatmeal messes. Really good if you add chopped apples & cinnamon, leftover granola bits, cranberries etc. The denser oat grain of steel cut is supposed to give a slower blood glucose rise and not spike like instant, thus you're full longer & don't have a sugar spike then drop.

Microwaved oatmeal has never worked for me.