oversalted

The heavily oversalted brine would be piped back into the ocean.

Suddenly, I lost my knack for getting the salt spot-on: everything was oversalted.

Rituals of travel, such as packing a bag or grazing on oversalted airplane peanuts, signal that it’s time to put some of those quotidian selves on the shelf.

Most people season their turkeys straight in its roasting pan, but I find that this leads to excess salt at the bottom, and since I like to use the drippings to make a gravy later — often straight in the pan itself — this can also lead to an oversalted gravy.

Through the eyes of cooks, we glimpse notorious evildoers playing practical jokes with Tabasco sauce and complaining about oversalted omelets, worrying about their health, avoiding wives and longing for the foods of their childhood.