Can anybody tell me the difference between table spoon and tea spoon?

These measurements have been around for a long time every since I stated cooking anyway. They are to make measuring more uniform. i would rather dip the tablespoon into the baking powder once instead of 3 times. cuts down on time. It's sort of like measuring with the measuring cup You have a a dry measuring cup and liquid measuring cup. The liquid cup has the marks for 1/4,1/2, 3/4and 1 cup. The dry measuring cup are individual cups for each portion so it can be measured exact.

Do you mean to say, it's just a form of measurement and nothing else? Then why confuse us poor folks by using both the measurements. Simply use the term 3 tea spoons instead of coining a new measurement of table spoon. Kinda confuses us males out here

I appreciate the picture of spoons. How'd you find the picture so fast, did you have it in your PC?

Okay, so does it mean that the difference is in the place of usage. The tea spoon during tea-time and table spoon during our lunch/dinner. I wonder why the chefs keep using different terms all the time while cooking something.

Not the 'place of usage' per se but the manner of how they will be used. You normally don't scoop food to eat using a teaspoon but you use a tablespoon instead to take on the amount of food. Unless otherwise you don't have any available table utensils than tablespoon,then you use the teaspoon. But of course you can eat desert (like cakes, sweets..etc) on the dining table but you use the teaspoon instead of the tablespoon to take in small amount of food. Again, unless otherwise you don't have any available table utensils than teaspoon, then you use the tablespoon.

Hi zalvor, sweets spoon, now what is that? Kinda hearing it for the first time. Any conversion factor for it? like 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons

You've got that many spoons? I only have the two sizes and sticking to those.. But now, I do remember when you go to a restaurant, you have different sizes

Hey, Marina I just went to my kitchen as you said and I got more confused . I saw spoons in about 5 different sizes. Now, I am more confused as to which to call as tea spoon and which ones as the table spoons and still more what to call the three other sizes??? I usually use any spoon irrespective or tea-time or lunch/dinner-time. Yes, the only time I go for specific spoons is when I have soup (the large ones) and when I eat noodles (the fork). Please clarify further.

I don't use a tea spoon when i have meals, i use a dessert spoon or a table spoon, depending on what it is. I only use a tea spoon for eating cake or stirring a cup of tea or coffee.

Does it matter which spoon we use? I usually don't go for any specific spoon. I just use any spoon which comes into my vision in the kitchen and go for my food. Why the fuss between the type of spoon when the objective is just to facilitate the entry of food into our mouths.

Yes, sure there's difference in the sizes and also in the place of usage as I have learnt in the above discussion. Thanks for the posting and happy mylotting.

Okay I get it, table spoons for stuff you eat at the table and tea spoons at your coffee or desserts table. Then why do the cookery chefs keep referring to those things differently, why don't they say 3 tea spoons instead of saying 1 tablespoon. They kinda want to confuse us?

Hi mitraa, I have kinda got the difference between the two now and won't forget it. I must thank you'll for clarifying the topic to me so that I get more efficient (somewhat) in the kitchen. I bet, the usage part was also very correct sans the chair consumption part!

Yeah, I kinda have learnt the difference between the two now. I must thank you'll for clarifying my doubt and helping me become more efficient (somewhat) in the kitchen.

Yup, it's the difference between big and small. Small spoon for tea and large spoon for table eating.

Hi bluepatch, yeah the usage is interchangeable. Anyway, I think the terms are used only from the quantitative angle.

Well, to be honest, I had a vague idea but not specific to the data which you and many like you have presented here. I have no regrets now, about starting this discussion as I have come to know many things which otherwise I was ignorant about. Thanks for you update.

Hi! thanks for the update. I will surely have a close look on all the spoons in the kitchen, but I am afraid that I have some spoons which do not fall neither in the category of teaspoons nor that of tablespoons. I wonder what do we call them as?

same here, thanks for your response. Happy mylotting.

u can just call them as spoons its not that u have to give some exams about spoons so u forget it n call them as only spoons. anyways happy mylotting it was interesting discussing this discussion.

Yes, from the posts I've learnt that 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons. Thanks for the response.

Yeah, I am kinda getting it. Teaspoon is for eating food which can be consumed in small amounts and tablespoons for larger consumption. Thanks for the update shen.

Hi Galena. Thanks for the update. It's like big spoon v/s small spoon

Hi vaishali. yeah, I have come to know the difference now. Thanks for sharing the info, but I wonder what the other sized spoons would be called as?

Thanks a lot for the information. I appreciate it. It's the war between the small spoon and the big spoon, but I wonder why somebody coined words such as these for spoons.

Thanks Ganesh, for the update. It's made things clearer to me. Happy mylotting

Yeah, surely is. Thanks for the update. By the way, you've got a unique user name, I wonder what it signifies. Happy Mylotting

Yeah, it's a simple trick to remember it. As kids, we are always given such shortcuts to help remember many things. But being an adult now, I am not at all complaining.