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Sweating vegetables such as onions, carrots, celery, or all three if making a mirepoix, is a process that slowly, with moderate to very low heat, softens the vegetables and extracts some of their liquid. Salt is usually added to help with the extraction of water. The whole point of sweating versus sauteing is when you saute, you use higher heat and thus cause browning or caramelization. Both slight browning and caramelization are necessary aspects of cooking but for more delicate or longer cooking dishes such as soups, stocks and broths, it can cause an underlying bitterness to the dish.

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