A teaspoon, while being the quickest method to measure small quantities, is not always the unit with which your (future) favorite recipe is written. It's ease of use probably explains why it's a ubiquitous unit in most american cookbooks, but the internationally oriented foodie always come across ounces or milliliters. This conversion table gives it all : from tablespoon or teaspoon or cups to milliliter (mL), no volume unit will have any secret anymore!
You will note that the English pint is bigger than the American pint... Beer is serious stuff on this side of the Atlantic! Besides, why didn't any Englishmen bring a regular teaspoon to Australia?
| American units | Imperial units (UK) | Metric |
| ¼ teaspoon | | 1 mL |
| ½ teaspoon | | 3 mL |
| 1 teaspoon |
| 5 mL |
| ½ tablespoon | | 8 mL |
| 1 tablespoon (3 c à thé) | | 15mL |
| The Australian tablespoon is different | 1 tablespoon (Australian) | 20 mL |
| ¼ cup | | 65 mL |
| 1/3 cup | | 85 mL |
| ½ cup | | 125 mL |
| 2/3 cup | | 170 mL |
| ¾ cup | | 190 mL |
| 1 cup | | 250 mL |
| 1 american pint (16 fluid ounces) | The English pint is different | 450 mL |
| The american pint is different | 1 imperial pint | 570 mL |
| ~2 1/5 american pint | 1 ¾ imperial pint | 1000 mL (1 litre) |
| Quantity | Milliliters | Fluid ounces |
| 1 glass of wine | 100 | 3 |
| 1 glass of porto or sherry | 70 | 2 |
| 1 glass of liquor | 45 | 1 |
Sources : some datas come from Leiths Cookery Bible
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