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  • verb cooking To add too much salt to (something)

Etymologies

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over- +‎ salt

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Examples

  • If you like to use their canning water for some of the liquid called for in the recipe, go right ahead; just be careful not to oversalt the soup.

    The Food Matters Cookbook Mark Bittman 2010

  • • If you happen to oversalt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato.

    More of America’s Most Wanted Recipes Ron Douglas 2010

  • The stuffing needs a lot of salt so the rice and flesh can soak it up while cooking, so oversalt it a little before putting it into the squash.

    I love the internet « Were rabbits 2008

  • Since capers are salted, be careful not to oversalt at the beginning.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Laurie Constantino 2008

  • • If you happen to oversalt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato.

    More of America’s Most Wanted Recipes Ron Douglas 2010

  • Since capers are salted, be careful not to oversalt at the beginning.

    Recipe: Carrots with Capers (Kαρότα με Kάπαρης) Laurie Constantino 2008

  • So its always better to undersalt than to oversalt food.

    Ratio Michael Ruhlman 2009

  • If you burn the lobster or you totally oversalt it or don't do a good job, you don't pay homage to that life.

    Q&A: Eric Ripert 2009

  • But when production lines heat the flavor out of ingredients; when plants buy loads of chemically altered, inferior raw materials to cut costs; when they oversalt and oversugar to pack in cheap taste; when they lay on additives and preservatives to increase shelf life (remember trans fats?); when they process the very life out of food in the name of convenience and affordability, yes, they feed us, but they do not nurture us.

    The Taste Makers 2008

  • Unfortunately to the uninitiated, the tendency to oversalt has to be mitigated, as something that is still cooking will concentrate the flavor to an unappealing, oversalinated mess.

    Progenitor of Civilization 2005

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