to taste

idiom

: in an amount that results in the taste that one wants

—used in recipes to indicate how much salt, pepper, etc., should be added to food

Salt the stew to taste.

Examples of to taste in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tasty Apricot Chicken 2 (3 1/2 pound) broiling chickens, cut up Salt and ground black pepper, to taste Garlic salt, to taste ½ pound apricot preserves 6 ounces Russian dressing 1 packet onion soup mix Heat oven to 350 degrees. —Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2025

Instead of setting a timer, the best way to determine when to take vegetables out is to taste them. —The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025

Or to automatically rewrite search result URLs to taste, doing things like redirecting reddit.com to old.reddit.com? —Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025

Park, meanwhile, has yet to taste defeat in his professional MMA career, most recently having defeated Carlos Hernandez via submission (rear-naked chokehold) back in May of this year. —Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for to taste

• abased
• barefaced
• debased
• defaced
• disgraced
• displaced
• distaste
• effaced
• embraced
• emplaced
• encased
• erased