a small amount (especially of food or wine)
"Before ordering the full meal, he took a tasting of each dish to check if it was seasoned correctly."
taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality
"cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most"
A small amount of food or drink.
"She took a tasting of the new wine before deciding to order a full bottle."
In plain English: Tasting is the act of putting food or drink in your mouth to check how it looks and feels before you eat it all.
"The tasting was delicious, even though we were just trying out the new recipe before serving it to everyone."
present participle of taste
"The chef is tasting the soup to see if it needs more salt."
In plain English: Tasting means putting something small into your mouth to see if it is good, bad, or what flavor it has before you eat more of it.
"The chef stopped tasting the soup to make sure the seasoning was just right before serving it."
Tasting comes from the Middle English word tastynge, which combined the verb "to taste" with a suffix indicating an action in progress. The term entered modern usage simply by adding this common gerundive ending to describe the act of sampling food or drink.