A person or device that removes salt from something, particularly in food preparation or industrial processing.
From 'desalt' plus the agent suffix '-er,' following patterns like 'teacher,' 'baker,' 'grinder.'
In a pre-refrigeration kitchen, a desalter was an actual job—someone skilled at preparing salt-preserved foods by carefully controlling the soaking time to get the flavor right.
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