Soaking is a type of recipe that is form of dropping the item into the fluid, after the process you will get the result

There are 2 conditions that may affect the way how you do the recipe:

• Will it consume the fluid?
• Will it accept the fluid source?

This conditions can be seen upon hovering your mouse into the fluid

Soaking Showcase

Here is an example recipe using the datapack format

{
  "type": "mw_core:soaking",
  "ingredient": {
    "item": "apple" #this is the input
  },
  "fluid": "create:honey",  #this is the fluid, it can accept tags
  "source": true,  #If it should be a source (not the flowing)
  "remove": false, 
  "result": {
    "item": "create:honeyed_apple", #the output/item
    "count": 1
  }

With this you can make your own Soaking recipes