Oh, there absolutely should be salt in porridge regardless of what other things are in it. It’s a flavour enhancer, and the right quantity gives an excellent lift to the flavour without necessarily making it taste salty.
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Never put salt in porridge,it’s only one step away from being a cereal killer
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Qu’est-ce que c’est?
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Boboti - delicious!! I make it with a different top of layered potato slices and grated carrot, topped off with yoghurt, but it’s that curried mince and fruit base that makes the dish
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Scottish champion porridge maker shows his technique starting at 10.40 into this
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I prefer to enhance the flavour of the nice things with more of the nice things.
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Forum tagline? 
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Have spurtles entered the discussion yet?
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You can’t just add more oats to your porridge to enhance the flavour of the oats. 
Deadbeat clearly has a deep understanding of how ingredients work 
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We’re using them the wrong way up according to Nigel Slater’s instructor.
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WOTD 
Spurtle is a brilliant word.
Basically, a wooden stirrer, often decorated with a thistle shaped top and generally used for stirring the sweepings from a gravel truck (aka brose).
My wife (being a Scottish person) has a collection of spurtles, the most prized being this one:
Now, don’t fall into the trap of thinking that this is merely an old bit of driftwood that probably started life as a spindle from the most uncomfortable chair in the most austere church on the remotest Hebridean island. No, this is a priceless family heirloom, used to stir the brose of generations of Mrs horace’s family, passing down endless culinary misery and salty dourness. The circle remains unbroken.
In common with many of the best Scottish words, the terminology is far more appealing than the object it describes.
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Or a particularly favourite family dildo 
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That would be a much better story.
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Meh !
Not for the next person who uses it as a stirrer
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Time to revive the old joke: If girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice then why do they taste of anchovies ?
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