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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

If you can't see the milk, too little. If the bowl can possibly overflow while you're eating, too much. Can't give an exact ratio, but that's the line I live on.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Pour cereal. Pour milk. As soon as boyancy causes the cereal to rise, stop pouring the milk.

Perfect every time. πŸ‘Œ

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Accurate. Can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is my way of doing it too, but at the end always a lot of milk remains in the bowl and I have to refill it with cereal multiple times.

If I add less milk in the first place, then for the major part of the cereal it'll feel like I haven't added any milk at all. Weird stuff.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just drink the milk. It takes on a lot of the cereal flavor especially if it's a sweeter cereal and it's good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I used to do this, until i puked on one of my elementary school teachers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

skill issue ngl, just don't puke

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

As soon as the cereal starts to float, I stop pouring milk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

2 boxes cereal per gallon of milk

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
  1. Use a square bowl placed on top of a circular plate.
  2. Add 11 parts water, then 2 parts cereal, using a mix of ancient Babylonian and traditional Japanese volumetric units (bonus points if you don’t actually convert them).
  3. Heat in the oven at 709 Β°R for exactly 73,037 ms. (Is that a decimal or thousand separator? Ask your local mathematics teacher.)
  4. Once heated, let it cool to exactly room temperature by placing it outside (regardless of the weather).
  5. Add a generous layer of cold ketchup on top, forming a smiley face.

Optional: Garnish with a sprig of mint and serve with a side of existential dread. Bon appΓ©tit!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Thanks, Google AI Result.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

So... basically 1 ketchup covered Ferrero Rocher? Hmmmm

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Add milk until it becomes visible.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I actually prefer to eat cereal without milk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I eat it with black coffee. Efficiency!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's your beer to cereal ratio, fellas?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

1/4 IPA, 3/4 lager

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just enough so that, by the time I finish the cereal, there's only a little milk left.

Edit: The way I do it is to have a layer of granola on the bottom, then a layer of whatever floaty cereal on top. When I fill it with milk, it's a little bit below the top layer so that it's just a little less than what would make it float. That usually gives me the perfect ratio.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Put cereal in bowl, add milk until cereal is almost completely covered. Let sit for a minute to let cereal soak up some milk. This is for mini wheats mixed with another cereal. Mini wheats need a little soaking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this is a very personal decision. its like how much milk or sugar to put into cofee or tea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

By volume, usually I stop pouring milk when it covers approximately 4/5 of the cereal. That makes it so when I put my spoon in it, the cereal at the very top will also absorb some milk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The correct ratio is the ratio you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

100:0

Straight cereal. Milk is for putting chocolate in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

0:100

Skip the cereal, just chug the milk from the carton

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does it feel to be so wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Dude’s name is BluuTato. I’m guessing it feels kinda numb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Just add milk until the entire pile of cereal starts to lift. Usually when the milk reaches the base level of the cereal itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

2/3 cereal, 1/3 milk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You mean cereal/water ratio, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

OJ. Need the vitamin C

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I don't know but for me having the ratio hit at the end of my meal could take just a bowl or a whole box. But I ain't stoppin' until the cereal and the milk are gone at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think a good 80:20 to 90:10 cereal to milk. Just eyeballing it though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You’re eating too much cereal my friend. Try using an 8:2 ratio for a few days and see if you feel better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This guy coming over here not knowing what a zero is and trying to dunk on me. What a sad little guy.

You might want to eat some more cereal and get that brain working, friend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No milk in anything for 4+ years now.

Half a handful of:

  • fortified whatever-brand O's
  • peanuts
  • fruit and nut trail mix
  • top off with granola
  • prefect amount of water to end with a dry bowl but only barely

I thought my stomach issues were just a human thing. I always drank a bunch of milk. My chronic back issues from disability make me very sensitive to additional inflammation. So I tried eliminating milk one time for a few weeks to see how it affected me. It was night and day. I felt so much better that I never went back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't have cereal often, but when I did, its making sure the cereal is flat and even (as opposed to being piled up in the middle of the bowl like a mountain made of cereal), then pour the milk so that the milk, almosts reach the line where the height of the cereal was, and at the same time some cereal starts to float, and most of the cereal is submerged. I wait for my cereal to get just slightly soggy, then start eating.

(I don't observe other people eating cereal btw, and IDC about what the cereal eating "norms" there are πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Sometimes I just eat the cereal without milk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I just fill the bowl with a lot of milk then take the box of cereal with me, and keep refilling until either I'm full or the milk's all gone.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Assuming enough of both, i still randomly pick between under, over, and evenly milked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Fill the bowl with cereal nearly to the brim, then add milk until the cereal is at risk of spilling out.

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