diff --git a/crates/wit-component/Cargo.toml b/crates/wit-component/Cargo.toml
index 9379a56dcc..186c41cc84 100644
--- a/crates/wit-component/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/wit-component/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ edition.workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 wasmparser = { workspace = true }
 wasm-encoder = { workspace = true }
-wat = { workspace = true }
 wit-parser = { workspace = true }
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
 log = "0.4.17"
@@ -19,4 +18,4 @@ wasmprinter = { workspace = true }
 glob = "0.3.0"
 pretty_assertions = "1.3.0"
 env_logger = { workspace = true }
-#test-helpers = { path = '../test-helpers', default-features = false }
+wat = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/wit-component/src/encoding.rs b/crates/wit-component/src/encoding.rs
index 72d9e46882..31a6bd1a0a 100644
--- a/crates/wit-component/src/encoding.rs
+++ b/crates/wit-component/src/encoding.rs
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Context, Result};
 use indexmap::{map::Entry, IndexMap, IndexSet};
 use std::hash::{Hash, Hasher};
 use std::mem;
-use std::path::Path;
 use wasm_encoder::*;
 use wasmparser::{FuncType, Validator, WasmFeatures};
 use wit_parser::{
@@ -2200,22 +2199,6 @@ impl ComponentEncoder {
         Ok(self)
     }
 
-    /// This is a convenience method for [`ComponentEncoder::adapter`] for
-    /// inferring everything from just one `path` specified.
-    ///
-    /// The wasm binary at `path` is read and parsed and is assumed to have
-    /// embedded information about its imported interfaces. Additionally the
-    /// name of the adapter is inferred from the file name itself as the file
-    /// stem.
-    pub fn adapter_file(self, path: &Path) -> Result<Self> {
-        let name = path
-            .file_stem()
-            .and_then(|s| s.to_str())
-            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("input filename was not valid utf-8"))?;
-        let wasm = wat::parse_file(path)?;
-        self.adapter(name, &wasm)
-    }
-
     /// Indicates whether this encoder is only encoding types and does not
     /// require a `module` as input.
     pub fn types_only(mut self, only: bool) -> Self {