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Seem to remember once being told that a gubbock (sp?)is the name for the teaspoon left at the bottom of the sink when you have finished washing everything else up -is this true?
This sounds like it will have originated in The Meaning of Liff (or in other words, 'no') Grumpypierre ( talk) 19:29, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Who keeps changing "ml" into "mL" ? Although "mL" is theoretically correct, "ml" is the most common form, used much more than "mL". -Adrian. 83.101.21.19 12:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
"If you say things like "most common" without adding a country or region, you may want to travel more."
I've lived in 5 countries, and traveled through more, and still this is the first time I've seen "mL". Every scientific text I've read (American and European) used "ml". While the "l/L" controversy is understandable because of the potential confusion, "ml" and "mL" do not share that problem. Changing "ml" into "mL" is done to be consistent with an American decision, while the majority of the rest of the world uses the lowercase "ml". But since it's such a controversy, I won't change them.
This article now has three external links to advertising-supported conversion site. External links are helpful for things you might not be able to find on your own. Conversion sites, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen. Go to Google and type on How many teaspoons in a and you'll get bunches of them. One will even tell you how many teaspoons in a cubic light year (1.7E+53). The point is, this all looks to be like spam to me. Zyxwv99 ( talk) 22:38, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
As well as lacking substantiation, this needs to be revised by someone with the requisite knowledge to cover imperial/metric measurement. 82.46.70.132 ( talk) 20:46, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Once you point out that a teaspoon is also used as a dry measurement, you need to point out the dry ounce equivalent. Fluid and dry ounces are not identical. 71.163.114.49 ( talk) 13:26, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
I recently read an article that said so many teaspoons equal an ounce. What the heck kind of insanity is that? I was wondering if there was an arcane system at work here that isn't in this Wiki article. Anyone know? Longinus876 ( talk) 15:29, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
If a rounded teaspoon is 'produced by heaping the ingredient as high as possible', how can a heaped teaspoon be 'even larger'? You'd have to put the teaspoon back into the container a second time to produce a single 'heaped teaspoon', or use a larger measuring spoon than you use to measure a 'rounded teaspoon'. I suspect the article has an incorrect definition of the 'rounded teaspoon'. Liam Ong ( talk) 02:11, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
(1) By a heaped spoon, I mean as much of the ingredient as you can balance on a spoon-shaped spoon, (2) In England, by tradition, all spoon measurements given in recipes were rounded; in other words , there was as much above the rim of the spoon as below it
(1) A rounded tablespoon means filled above the rim as much as the spoon hollow below and equals two of level measure (2) two rounded tablespoons if put together would heap a tablespoon about as high as would an egg giving us the old time measure of "butter size of an egg"
A tablespoonful of flour, sugar and butter is a rounded spoonful. A teaspoonful of salt, soda, pepper and spice is a level spoonful. A heaped spoonful is all the spoon will hold
Context: The previous link to a UK NHS page has been redirecting to another page on the NHS for many years. That target page has now also been "retired" (NHS terminology). I've provided an archive.org link so that the original content can be read.
The original (NHS) content was based on a particular academic paper. I've cited that using the auto filling of the visual editor, but I see that there are now red marked deficiencies, but these cannot be sorted using the visual editor.
Please can somebody, more familiar with the Source editor, and the required citation style, sort this out? Many thanks.
ChanceryBlack ( talk) 09:46, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
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Seem to remember once being told that a gubbock (sp?)is the name for the teaspoon left at the bottom of the sink when you have finished washing everything else up -is this true?
This sounds like it will have originated in The Meaning of Liff (or in other words, 'no') Grumpypierre ( talk) 19:29, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
Who keeps changing "ml" into "mL" ? Although "mL" is theoretically correct, "ml" is the most common form, used much more than "mL". -Adrian. 83.101.21.19 12:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
"If you say things like "most common" without adding a country or region, you may want to travel more."
I've lived in 5 countries, and traveled through more, and still this is the first time I've seen "mL". Every scientific text I've read (American and European) used "ml". While the "l/L" controversy is understandable because of the potential confusion, "ml" and "mL" do not share that problem. Changing "ml" into "mL" is done to be consistent with an American decision, while the majority of the rest of the world uses the lowercase "ml". But since it's such a controversy, I won't change them.
This article now has three external links to advertising-supported conversion site. External links are helpful for things you might not be able to find on your own. Conversion sites, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen. Go to Google and type on How many teaspoons in a and you'll get bunches of them. One will even tell you how many teaspoons in a cubic light year (1.7E+53). The point is, this all looks to be like spam to me. Zyxwv99 ( talk) 22:38, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
As well as lacking substantiation, this needs to be revised by someone with the requisite knowledge to cover imperial/metric measurement. 82.46.70.132 ( talk) 20:46, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Once you point out that a teaspoon is also used as a dry measurement, you need to point out the dry ounce equivalent. Fluid and dry ounces are not identical. 71.163.114.49 ( talk) 13:26, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
I recently read an article that said so many teaspoons equal an ounce. What the heck kind of insanity is that? I was wondering if there was an arcane system at work here that isn't in this Wiki article. Anyone know? Longinus876 ( talk) 15:29, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
If a rounded teaspoon is 'produced by heaping the ingredient as high as possible', how can a heaped teaspoon be 'even larger'? You'd have to put the teaspoon back into the container a second time to produce a single 'heaped teaspoon', or use a larger measuring spoon than you use to measure a 'rounded teaspoon'. I suspect the article has an incorrect definition of the 'rounded teaspoon'. Liam Ong ( talk) 02:11, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
(1) By a heaped spoon, I mean as much of the ingredient as you can balance on a spoon-shaped spoon, (2) In England, by tradition, all spoon measurements given in recipes were rounded; in other words , there was as much above the rim of the spoon as below it
(1) A rounded tablespoon means filled above the rim as much as the spoon hollow below and equals two of level measure (2) two rounded tablespoons if put together would heap a tablespoon about as high as would an egg giving us the old time measure of "butter size of an egg"
A tablespoonful of flour, sugar and butter is a rounded spoonful. A teaspoonful of salt, soda, pepper and spice is a level spoonful. A heaped spoonful is all the spoon will hold
Context: The previous link to a UK NHS page has been redirecting to another page on the NHS for many years. That target page has now also been "retired" (NHS terminology). I've provided an archive.org link so that the original content can be read.
The original (NHS) content was based on a particular academic paper. I've cited that using the auto filling of the visual editor, but I see that there are now red marked deficiencies, but these cannot be sorted using the visual editor.
Please can somebody, more familiar with the Source editor, and the required citation style, sort this out? Many thanks.
ChanceryBlack ( talk) 09:46, 10 October 2022 (UTC)