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.
Use a square bowl placed on top of a circular plate.
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).
Heat in the oven at 709 °R for exactly 73,037 ms. (Is that a decimal or thousand separator? Ask your local mathematics teacher.)
Once heated, let it cool to exactly room temperature by placing it outside (regardless of the weather).
Add a generous layer of cold ketchup on top, forming a smiley face.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🤷‍♂️)
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.
I eat cereal like twice a year, if that. But yeah, when I do, one box tends to last me two meals. I don't really eat breakfast - when I have cereal it's because I'm craving it, and it's liable to replace my dinner at that point.
That depends on whether the cereal has the Crunch Enhancer, a non-nutritive cereal varnish. It’s semi-permeable, non-osmotic. It coats and seals the cereal, keeps it crunchy.