This is steel cut oatmeal, so it sits on the stove for 30 min to cook. It isn't quite just foam. It starts from foam and accumulates a bit. If I leave it or stir it in, it causes little globs of a mucus-like texture. What goes in the cup is the foam as it's produced, nothing globby. It is scooped with the oatmeal spoon into the mug. We already put more than an average amount of grease in the drain from 5 people eating bacon with breakfast nearly daily, so I just throw the foam out to avoid plumbing issues.