5 Mar
2001
5 Mar
'01
6:59 p.m.
On Mar 5, 22:17, Tony Duell wrote:
Well, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek :-) "Officially" (whose office, I
don't know) a teaspoon here is 5ml and a tablespoon is 15ml, so it's now
1:3 here too. Like Dick, though, I know mine don't work out that way :-)
Pete wrote:
> Tony wrote:
> > 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons
>
> Except that, traditionally, there are two teaspoons in a dessertspoon
and
two
dessertspoons in a tablespoon. It doesn't add up :-)
I believe the 3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon is right in America. We have
slightly different spoons over here. When you consider that most recipies include such
reproducable standards
as '1 egg' or 'a pinch of salt', you come to realise that measuring
_anything_ accurately is probably a total waste of time :-)
And if you do, it probably won't come out right anyway -- your flour will
be a different grade, or your eggs a different size, than those of the
person who wrote the recipe. Or they do it by eye too, and just wrote down
what they *thought* they used :-)
I started to learn to cook when I was quite young, and I still remember the
occasion when I read a recipe that called for a teaspoon of vanilla
essence. "Mum! Is that a level or a heaped teaspoon?" She had to think
about it for a moment...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York