If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, then how you prepare a crucial part of it might matter more than you think.

Pouring the cereal into the bowl first allows you to craft the perfect cereal-to-milk ratio, as the latter is ostensibly only there to complement the Wheaties, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, or Raisin Bran in question — too little results in dry cereal, whereas too much could throw off the balance. But maybe you consider cereal a milk-delivery device rather than the other way around and like to live dangerously, filling your bowl with the perfect amount of milk before adding just enough cereal to justify its presence. It’s part of a complete breakfast either way, at least according to all those commercials.