Traditional cooking measures
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Imperial |
metric |
| teaspoon A teaspoon, a type of cutlery , is a small spoon, commonly silver and part of a place setting, suitable for stirring and sipping the contents of a cup of tea or coffee. Utilitarian versions are used for measuring |
1/6 U.S. fluid ounce (about 4.929 mL) |
1/6 Imperial fluid ounce (about 4.736 mL) |
5 mL |
| tablespoon A tablespoon is a type of large spoon usually used for serving. A tablespoonful, an amount approximately equal to the capacity of one tablespoon, is commonly used as a measure of volume used in cooking. It is abbreviated in English as T., tb., tblspn, tbs. or tbsp. Canada, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK define 1 level tablespoon as 15 = 3 teaspoons |
½ U.S. fluid ounce (about 14.79 mL) |
½ Imperial fluid ounce (about 14.21 mL) |
15 mL |
| cup The cup is a unit of measurement for volume, used in cooking to measure bulk foods, such as granulated sugar , and liquids (fluid measurement). It is in common use in the United States and American-influenced nations, such as Japan. This cup is hardly ever used in the United Kingdom or the rest of Europe, however an informal cup referring to the |
8 U.S. fluid ounces or ½ U.S. liquid pint (about 237 mL) |
8 Imperial fluid ounces or 2/5 fluid pint (about 227 mL) |
250 mL |
In the UK, a tablespoon can also be five fluidrams The dram was historically both a coin and a weight. Currently it is both a small mass in the Apothecaries' system of weights and a small unit of volume. This unit is called more correctly fluid dram or in contraction also fluidram (about 17.76 mL).
<<Table of Contents The volume of any solid, liquid, plasma, vacuum or theoretical object is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically. One-dimensional figures and two-dimensional shapes such as square geometry squares are assigned zero volume in the three-dimensional space. Volume is commonly presented in units such as mililitres or | Next>>
