meliach k'roseiach

Meaning

• salty food can act like hot food for certain taste-transfer rules
• salting treated as boiling in specified contexts

Alternate spellings

maliach keroseiach, meliach k'roseach

Usage and context

A halachic principle concerning taste transfer through significant salting; practical scope depends on the food and circumstances.

Example in Yeshivish

Because it was heavily salted, we have to consider meliach k'roseiach.

Plain-English example

Because it was heavily salted, we have to consider the rule that salting can create heat-like taste transfer.