Common tablespoons intended for use as cutlery (called dessert spoons in the UK, where a tablespoon is always a serving spoon) usually hold 7–14 ml (0.24–0.47 US fl oz), considerably less than some tablespoons used for serving.Ĭulinary measure Measuring spoons Naming They are used only for preparing and serving food, not as part of a place-setting. Victorian and Edwardian era tablespoons used in the UK are often 25 ml (0.85 US fl oz) or sometimes larger. At the time the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published in 1928, "tablespoon" (which by then was no longer hyphenated) still had two definitions in the UK: the original definition (eating spoon) and the new definition (serving spoon). In the late 19th century UK, the dessert-spoon and soup-spoon began to displace the table-spoon as the primary implement for eating from a bowl, at which point the name "table-spoon" took on a secondary meaning as a much larger serving spoon. The 18th century witnessed a proliferation of different sorts of spoons, including the mustard-spoon, salt-spoon, coffee-spoon, and soup-spoon.
Around the same time the tea-spoon and dessert-spoon first appeared, and the table-spoon was reserved for eating soup. From about 1700 the place setting became popular, and with it the "table-spoon" (hyphenated), "table-fork" and "table-knife". Spoons were carried as personal property in much the same way as people today carry wallets, key rings, etc. The capacity of the utensil (as opposed to the measurement) is defined by neither law nor custom but only by preferences, and may or may not significantly approximate the measurement.īefore about 1700, it was customary for Europeans to bring their own spoons to the table. The unit of measurement varies by region: a United States tablespoon is approximately 14.8 ml (0.50 US fl oz), a United Kingdom and Canadian tablespoon is exactly 15 ml (0.51 US fl oz), and an Australian tablespoon is 20 ml (0.68 US fl oz). and occasionally referred to as a tablespoonful to distinguish it from the utensil. In this capacity, it is most commonly abbreviated tbsp. In many English-speaking regions, the term now refers to a large spoon used for serving however, in some regions, it is the largest type of spoon used for eating.īy extension, the term is also used as a cooking measure of volume.
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