In our experience, making your porridge on the stovetop is a better option by far. That’s because you can stir in your ingredients and flavors while the porridge is simmering personally, allowing you to customize how much of each flavor ends up in the resulting breakfast. If you were to try this while microwaving your porridge, you would have to stop the microwaving every minute or so, stir in some more ingredients, then start the microwave once again. All in all, that might take even longer than it would to just make the porridge on the stovetop as we demonstrated above.