Oatmeal splashing onto your stove: chef-tested fixes to stop the morning mess

A bubbling pot of oats can turn a quick breakfast into a sticky cleanup in seconds. With more people cooking at home, simple techniques to stop oatmeal from overflowing are worth knowing—not just to save time, but to avoid scorched pans and wasted food. At its simplest, an overflowing pot is a chemistry problem: heated…