Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these great (and sometimes not
so great) words of knowledge:

The term refers to both rolled oats and steel cut oats. I realize this
may be confusing, however you can usually tell from the recipe which
they are referring to. In the US rolled oats require a longer cooking
time than steel cut oats if that is any help.

> In Australia we don't use the term 'oatmeal'. In recipes from the US and
> Britain when it calls for this I can't work out from the photo what product
> has been used. In the recent thread on oats I thought I might be able to
> glean the info, but it didn't happen.
>
> We have rolled oats, which are like your Quaker traditional rolled oats, and
> we have steel cut oats. We can use both of these for porridge. There are
> also the quick sort of flavoured oat mixes that nuke in a minute. We have
> oat bran as well. So what is oatmeal? Is it another name for rolled oats,
> or is a more refined product?
>
> Chris
>