Definitions
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- verb cooking To add too much
salt to (something)
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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• If you happen to oversalt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato.
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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.
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Since capers are salted, be careful not to oversalt at the beginning.
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• If you happen to oversalt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato.
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Since capers are salted, be careful not to oversalt at the beginning.
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So its always better to undersalt than to oversalt food.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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