The word "taster" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who samples food or drinks to evaluate their quality or test their safety. Example sentence: The food critic was invited to sample the dishes prepared by the new chef, so she brought her taster to help make an informed decision.
The band have completed unreleased songs, which were first conceived in the early 1990s, for new release The Endless River, with the first taster from the album trailed online today.
I'm posting a taster below, partly in response to the reader who has just emailed me saying: "I am a mum in Devon with three kids, just about to run six miles for Sports Relief, please get behind this.
Full details are not being disclosed yet - Blatchford said at one venue he had asked seven times in one interview for some particularly coveted artefacts - but a small taster of the treasures in the Russian collections was seen in loans to the British Council in 2011, to mark the gift of a statue of Yuri Gagarin: they included his anti-gravity training harness and a space seat for a dog.
The discerning taster should know their malic acid (the sharpness in a green apple) from their tartaric (an acid found in wine).
Invigorated by this taster, I determined to impress my son, exactly half my age.
I have moved on from rotations (changing specialty every few months for a taster of the different careers) to becoming a specialised musculoskeletal physiotherapist in outpatients.
Two days barely scratches the surface of Tasmania's 1.58m hectare wilderness, but it can give you a good taster and it doesn't necessarily have to involve canvas and campfires.
She kicked off the venture with short video taster of the North Korean film Marathon Runner.
There are plenty of dangerous stunts in the world of Sherlock and we've got a taster of what Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman get up to in episode two of the third series.
Its customers were so angry about the change, for which they would need two accounts, that Reed Hastings, Netflix's boss, joked that he "might need a food taster".
The Greek crisis is simply a taster; eventually the markets or the voters will force other governments to cut back.The Greek crisis also moved on a bit while I was off, with more details on the cost of EU aid; loans will be at 5% or so, well below market rates.
