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In Canada, a teaspoon is historically 1 ⁄ 6 imperial fluid ounce (4.74 mL) and a tablespoon is 1 ⁄ 2 imperial fl oz (14.21 mL). In both Britain and Canada, cooking utensils commonly come in 5 mL for teaspoons and 15 mL for tablespoons, hence why it is labelled as that on the chart. The volume measures here are for comparison only.
Metric measuring spoons are available in sets, usually between four and six, typically with decilitre (100 ml), tablespoon (15 ml), teaspoon (5 ml) and millilitre measures. [citation needed] For fractional measures, there is often a line inside to indicate "half" or "a quarter", or a separate measure may be included, like 1 ⁄ 2 dl.
Common tablespoons intended for use as cutlery (called dessert spoons in the UK, where a tablespoon is always a serving spoon) usually hold 7–14mL (about 0·25–0·49 imperial fluid ounce or 0·24–0·47 US fluid ounce), [5] considerably less than some tablespoons used for serving.
Similar in size to a soup spoon (intermediate between a teaspoon and a tablespoon) but with an oval rather than round bowl, it typically has a capacity around twice that of a teaspoon. By extension, the term "dessert spoon" is used as a cooking measure of volume , usually of 10 millilitres (mL), 1 ⁄ 3 US fl oz , or 1 ⁄ 4 imp fl oz .
US customary tablespoon = 1 / 32 US customary dessert spoon = 1 / 16 US customary teaspoon = 1 / 8 US customary coffee spoon = 1 / 2 US customary dash = 2: US customary smidgens: ≈ 0·022: UK tablespoon: ≈ 0·043: UK dessert spoon: ≈ 0·087: UK teaspoon: ≈ 0·17: UK salt spoon: ≈ 0·35: UK pinch ≈ 0 ...
This situation persisted until 1784, when the Commutation Act reduced the tax on tea from 119% to 12.5%. [32] As the price of tea declined, the size of teacups and teaspoons increased. By the 1850s, the teaspoon as a unit of culinary measure had increased to 1 ⁄ 3 of a tablespoon, but the apothecary unit of measure remained the same. [33]
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For nutritional labeling and medicine in the US, the teaspoon and tablespoon are defined as a metric teaspoon and tablespoon—precisely 5 mL and 15 mL respectively. [22] The saying, "a pint's a pound the world around", refers to 16 US fluid ounces of water weighing approximately (about 4% more than) one pound avoirdupois.