Oversalt

Quick meaning: Oversalt is a verb meaning (cooking) To add too much salt to (something).

Meaning

(cooking) To add too much salt to (something).

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• oversalts
• oversalting
• oversalted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overspice, oversweeten, overseason, oversaturate, overdo, oversauce.

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