How many teaspoons/dessertspoons in a table spoon?

[lucy5]

Cant find my measurer and Im making tablet so I want to be as accurate as I can because the last lot was yummmy!

4 tsp = 2 dessertsp = 1tbsp

I'm pretty sure it's 3 teaspoons to one tablespoon - 5 mls = 15 mls.

3 tsps per tablespoon and 1 1/2 dessertspoons. A tablespoon is 15 mls, a dessertspoon 10 and tsp 5.

2 tsps = 1 dsp
2 dsps = 1 tbsp
2 tbsp = 1 fl oz

tbsp is 20mls

2 dessert spoons is one table spoon.

The discrepancy with metric measures is because the conversions are approximate....

oic!

Oh god Ive opened a can of worms. Thanks, im going to use 2 dessrtspoons = 1 tablespoon and hope for the best.

It varies

The book and spoons that came with my bread machine have tsp 5ml, tbsp 10ml, but I later bought a book and spoons that said tbsp 15ml.

tbsp is 15ml

Mmmmmm tablet

what is tablet anyway?

A bit like fudge but not as soft as it sets. Absolutely gorgeous.

it's a scottish sweet, its terrible for you but blooming delicious!

Resuscitating this thread... The teaspoons in my house hold nowhere near 5ml- I just tested using a calpol syringe. My 'teaspoon' holds about 2.5ml.
I then got 6 'teaspoons' of water into a tablespoon.
Are most teaspoons these days much shallower than an actual measuring teaspoon? And, in fact, really just coffee stirrers.
(This is important if you are calorie counting and cooking with oil!)

JofN, you have answered your own question. Coffee Stirrers covers it nicely. The problem started when cutlers first started making Stainless Steel cutlery and they couldn't press the spoons deep enough as St/St is very hard. To make a teaspoon that held 5ml it would have looked far too big and out of proportion, hence measures.
Our measures at home as follows:
1/2 tsp = 2.5ml
1 tsp = 5ml
1 dsp = 10ml
1 Tbsp = 15ml

They have now developed softer Stainless Steel and so teaspoons could be done in the old way, but why bother no most people have measures......most of which are not made of Stainless Steel.

Thank you 4merly ... I was sort of thinking aloud and hoping I was right....
I'm on moderate carb/ low calorie diet at the moment and logging everything in MyFitnessPal. I couldn't believe the amount of calories it was suggesting for a teaspoon of oil or butter. But now I know the 'teaspoon' I was using is actually only half of a measuring teaspoon, I can half the calorie count in MFP.

As a retired pharmacist, I make the following observations.
When fluid medicines were dispensed in pre-decimal days, the volumes were as follows:
one tablespoonful = two dessertspoonfuls = four teaspoonfuls. Approximation in decimal volumes is 1 teaspoonful = 5ml; 1 dessertspoonful = 10 ml; 1 tablespoonful = 2 dessertspoonful or (obviously) four teaspoonfuls.
Any other measures are spurious