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salting

salting

1 2.0
Adding salt to food to make it taste better or last longer
  • noun
  • /ˈsɔltɪŋ/
translation icon : salado
  • She went on then to a salting and pounding of meat, stopping once to ask if he wanted to stay for dinner.
  • protein without salting
  • salting), 40 grams
  • hour of salting

So all of this meant that salting foods was no longer the strategic act necessary for you to not die over the winter.

Examples

  • For dinner, I had a lamb shank that needed salting.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The salting changes the nature of the proteins in the turkey, allowing them to retain moisture.

    Blog text (11)
  • But in cooking, the one area where I prefer more guidance is in salting food.

    Blog text (8)
  • So all of this meant that salting foods was no longer the strategic act necessary for you to not die over the winter.

  • Today we're doing the Trader Joe's salting or tomorrow we're doing the wonderful salting with the with those cups from, from round one.

  • We extracted DNA from each tissue sample using the salting-out method.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Heavy-handed salting is a cheap and lazy way to play to the lowest common denominator.

    Blog text (21)
  • The local government cost of snowplowing, snow removal, and road-salting must be a tremendous tax burden to all, plus the loss of sales, closed schools, etc. when the weather is just too fierce.

    Blog text (32)
  • Subsequently, the handling of animal hides was shown to involve some risk of exposure while the product was being offloaded and spread out for grading and salting.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The chef emphasized the importance of salting the meat properly to enhance its flavor.

How Salty

to oversalt
1 3.7
salting
1 2.0
saltless
3.4

Surface Forms

salting singular
saltings plural

Morphology

salting = salt (transparent) = salt + ing

The word 'salting' is transparently derived from the verb 'salt' with the addition of the suffix '-ing' to indicate the action or process.

Etymology

Salting comes from the simple word salt ('salt') plus the action ending -ing, so it literally means 'adding salt'. People have used salt for a long time to add flavor and to keep food from going bad, which is why salting means both seasoning and preserving.