tablespoon
(Australia, New Zealand, Northern, _, UK) A spoon too large for eating, usually used for cooking or serving.
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You know, if you mix a tablespoon of gochujang paste, two tablespoons of honey, a tablespoon of soy sauce and a tablespoon of rice vinegar, it's the sauce used in korean fried chicken congrats you now know the recipe :D
In my 45 years of life I have never figured out which one means tablespoon and which one means teaspoon because those aren’t real measurements anyways
I am currently obsessed with putting gochujang in everything. Currently making myself Mac & Cheese for lunch and will be putting a nice fat tablespoon of it in. It adds such a nice depth. OBSESSED.
and i dont have a spoon for my cereal so im using a measuring tablespoon
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(Australia, New Zealand, Northern, _, UK) A spoon too large for eating, usually used for cooking or serving.
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(cooking) A unit of volume, the value of which varies regionally; in the US: three teaspoons or one half fluid ounce or roughly 15 ml; in Britain and Canada: exactly 15 ml; in Russia 18 ml; in Australia: four teaspoons or 20 ml.
: Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a nonstick skillet until hot and quickly saute the goat-cheese buttons on both sides until brown.
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(Canada, US) A large spoon, used for eating food from a bowl.
Their eggs were deposited on a few bits of straw, and great caution was necessary in attempting to procure them, as the slightest touch crumbled their frail tenement into dust. By means of a tablespoon, I was enabled to procure many of t…
“You know, if you mix a tablespoon of gochujang paste, two tablespoons of honey, a tablespoon of soy sauce and a tablespoon of rice vinegar, it's the sauce used in korean fried chicken congrats you now know the recipe :D”
— Bluesky· May 2026“In my 45 years of life I have never figured out which one means tablespoon and which one means teaspoon because those aren’t real measurements anyways”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I am currently obsessed with putting gochujang in everything. Currently making myself Mac & Cheese for lunch and will be putting a nice fat tablespoon of it in. It adds such a nice depth. OBSESSED.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“and i dont have a spoon for my cereal so im using a measuring tablespoon”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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