Teaspoons: description and volume

A teaspoon has long been present in our everyday life. Knowing its volume in milliliters and the weight of grams, you can safely cook any culinary recipe. So, a spoon of a certain size will be the main measure for us to measure the components we need. In what cases is it better to use disposable products, for which is a spoon with a long handle intended? The answers to these and other questions are in our article.

The very first link that mentions a spoon refers to the third millennium BC. In Russia, a spoon as a food item was introduced by Prince Vladimir in 998. After the baptismal rite of all the inhabitants of Russia, in order to raise the cultural level, the prince ordered to eat with special appliances.

Since then, the subject of kitchen utensils has changed a lot. Many varieties of it appeared, and sometimes it’s hard to figure out where and how it should lie on the table.

The main types of spoons are table, dessert and tea.

• The dining room is used to receive the first course.
• Dessert is laid if pudding, tiramisu, halva, cheesecake, parfait, berries with cream and other soft desserts are served. It is smaller in size than the dining room.
• A teaspoon is called so because it was an indispensable attribute of tea drinking for stirring sugar or jam, it is served with a tea pair.

The first known mention of a teaspoon dates back to the 18th century. A teaspoon is a small spoon with an oval or rounded bowl and a flat, faceted or twisted handle 15 cm long. It looks like a dining room or dessert, but somewhat smaller. Used for eating dessert and drinks - tea, cocoa, hot chocolate.

Spoon is a universal thing.It is used in the church during the sacrament, musical people play them, like a percussion instrument. Pharmacists dosed medicines, taking as a basis the size and volume of a spoon. Writing down the recipe, the confectioners noted the extent to which the required ingredients are needed to prepare the dish along with the measure of weights.

There was a need to standardize the measure of the spoon. After all, the capacity cannot be the same size for the first course and dessert.

The popularity of tea drinking provoked the birth of a spoon for a tea meal. Often in cooking recipes indicate the desired composition of the components in tablespoons and teaspoons. Therefore, you need to know how much ingredient fits in the volume of 1 spoon in ml and mg.

Other products will have completely different volumes. It is also necessary to take into account the recommendations for the recipe, somewhere it is written - with a slide, and therefore the volume will be a little more.

We give a table on food products, in accordance with the volume.

And now a gram for cereals, tea, and other dry ingredients. The weight of a teaspoon is directly determined by the density of the substance, it is less by 0.5 grams or more.

In the XVIII century, numerous coffee and tea houses were opened and, naturally, new dishes appeared, necessary for tea drinking, coffee. New etiquette rules appear that encourage the production of teaspoons and coffee spoons.

A teaspoon can have different purposes. Depending on which meal she participates in, her appearance changes:

• a spoon for chilled drinks is similar to a teaspoon, only the handle is longer;

• fruit spoons have sharp teeth along the edge of the calyx;

• ice cream spoons resemble a spatula with bent edges;

• bar spoons represent various devices for mixing cocktails, making absinthe;

• a spoon for olives with an elongated handle and a small bowl with a hole in the middle - the brine drains, the olive remains on the spoon;

• the caviar spoon has a slightly rectangular bowl shape and a slightly longer handle than a teaspoon.

It is easy to understand that all these types of spoons will differ not only in size, but in volume.

For the manufacture of teaspoons, as a rule, use stainless steel, silver, gold, non-ferrous alloys. It is extremely rare to cut out spoons from a tree, they will come in the form of a gift item.

Look spectacular and unusual ceramic teaspoons. Ceramic sets are beautifully presented, where a tea pair and a spoon look like a whole. Gracefully made tea silver, gold spoons with a ceramic handle. For a cafe, it’s worth buying convenient and beautiful tea appliances, visitors will be pleased and comfortable, because it all depends on the little things.

Gained popularity and Disposable plastic teaspoons made of polystyrene. The beauty of these spoons is that they are not washed and discarded after use. They are necessary for field trips, hiking, traveling.When traveling outside the city, collect used plastic dishes in garbage bags for further disposal.

If you decide to purchase tea devices for yourself or make a gift, then When choosing these items, pay attention to:

• on the quality of steel and its impurities - for stainless steel products;
• on a test with a mark - on silver products;
• the device should not smell like chemistry;
• buy spoons of a well-known manufacturer who has accompanying documents guaranteeing their quality;
• high-quality tea devices should not be light and thin;
• when choosing spoons from silver, take high-grade silver, with a high silver content the alloy is cleaner, the quality is higher.

It is customary to give silver devices to christening a child, in honor of the first tooth, on his birthday, for a wedding. Particularly scrupulous should be when choosing a gift for the baby. High quality silverware always has a hygiene certificate.

Silver teaspoons in our time are in great demand, they are purchased at retail and in sets at an affordable cost. There are many advantageous differences in silver tea devices - graceful shapes, additional jewelry, unusual work of the master.

It’s always nice to give quality gifts, especially silver items. Such gifts remain in the memory for a long time and are used in household goods. As a rule, silver spoons are presented with an engraving, which is applied to the back of the pen, where you can indicate the date of birth of the child, the date of the wedding anniversary or any other reminder in honor of which the gift is made.

As time passes, silver fades and becomes less attractive, but to prevent this from happening, it must be properly stored and looked after.

• Silver items are stored separately from other utensils, preferably in velvet cases.
• It is recommended to contain silver in a room with low humidity, to avoid contact with gas, rubber products, products containing sulfur particles, they can contribute to clouding of silver.
• Best for storage parchment, foil. They protect silver from oxidation.
• One of the main rules for the care of silver spoons is to thoroughly wipe with a soft towel, do not leave them wet. Do not wash them in the dishwasher, spots and plaque may appear, which will then be difficult to clean.
• In order for silver to shine and delight in appearance, it is sometimes necessary to clean it with ammonia, citric acid, vinegar. Each component must be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 10, put silver in the solution for an hour, then wipe it well with a soft cloth.
• To clean silver things from plaque, ordinary baking soda will help - we dissolve 30 grams of soda in 100 ml of water, put silver in the resulting solution for 2-3 hours. For the greatest effect, you can put on fire and let it boil a little.
• To restore shine, a decoction of potatoes helps. Put the silver product for 15 minutes in the broth, and it becomes like new.
• You can perfectly clean silver spoons using toothpaste. Put the paste on a flannel cloth and wipe the spoons.
• You can purchase silver care products at hardware stores.

Next, watch a video with tips on how to care for teaspoons.