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If drinking water worked so well for your health, health insurance companies would likely be pushing that stuff hard given that it's cheap and they likely don't even have to pay for it.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

IMHO, I think the first step is to cook or bake a variety of recipes first. A lot of them. This will give you a general idea of cooking and baking techniques and also how things end up tasting when you're done cooking and baking. I guess this does require some thinking and remembering while you are following step by step (as opposed to not remember what ingredients you put in it when eating or how you did something get it to the end product).

After that, you'll have the building blocks to come up with your own tweaks or cooking from scratch. And then you just need to courage to try doing that while knowing that you'll sometimes mess up. Then when something doesn't work out like you expect, figure out why and just that for the future.

I think this is probably the way most people are going to accomplish it since we can't all go to cooking school to have the basics drilled into us or cook the "same" thing repeatedly like described here (at least I would probably get bored of it).

Just a comment on rolled oats. Sure they get gluey if you are reheating them. But why would you ever make them ahead of time? It takes just about as long as heating these steel cut oats up again in the morning to make them from start (and I'm not talking about quick oats either).

@lynell: or a slow cooker.

"avoid using student discounts when you're not a discount"?

Yeah, it's like I'm in a time machine.

This looks really uncomfortable actually. Not enough leg room to get all the way to the center. So you sit crosslegged or at an angle. Then only a few people can be on it. The backrests are way too short. Sure...it looks "futuristic" or whatever, but actually something people will use in the future. I doubt it. Way overdesigned without considering actual function.

Yeah, I feel like the sugar could burn when baking. So that would be a worry.

Cereal bags work great for rolling stuff out on (or between). If you carefully open them along the seams, you can use it. They are slick enough so that stuff doesn't stick badly. They are sturdy enough to not get mangled while rolling. Plus, you were just going to toss it anyway.

Pyrex or other glass is my choice.

Though sometimes I will use those disposable foil ones if I'm taking pie somewhere and don't want to have a dish to bring back.

Is it overthinking and silly? It's seems like a pretty easy way to get the coals right near the meat to get the high heat.

Also decanting the mixture down the straw seems like it would be messy. I think the turkey baster or some other kind of injector might be the safer way to do it.

Finally, since water expands, that's another reason to leave some space (in addition to any worries about spilling while sealing and whatever else). Otherwise, it'll most likely bust the seams when it freezes.