What does oversalt mean?
Oversalt means (cooking) To add too much salt to (something).
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(cooking) To add too much salt to (something).
On one occasion the caldo verde succeeded admirably, flavors and texture nicely balanced; on another, the sausage had unaccountably been omitted and the broth oversalted.
We oversugar, oversalt. We stimulate our tongues with spices and artificial sweeteners, our noses with artificial flavors, our eyes with artificial brilliant dyes. These are not things that nature has made, necessarily, although she provided the raw materials. They are superstimulants that humans have made or found.
Use oversalt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Oversalt means (cooking) To add too much salt to (something).
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
On one occasion the caldo verde succeeded admirably, flavors and texture nicely balanced; on another, the sausage had unaccountably been omitted and the broth oversalted.
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