Whilst food can be used to bring people together, measurements aren’t a universal language. Although most recipes will still taste great when using homey measures, I would advise that accurate measurements be used for baking recipes. Below are two tables that should help out.
The first chart is for Australian measurements that convert cups, tbsp, tsp, ml and liquid ounces at a quick glance.
The second chart quickly converts the 1 cup measurement (recorded in millilitres) to tbsp, for my global readers. As my recipes use Australian Metric Measurements and I often use metric cups, it’s a good idea to check out the global conversion chart.
QUICK GLANCE AUSSIE CONVERSIONS
GLOBAL – QUICK GLANCE CUPS TO TABLESPOONS
Please find below my second chart. This shows the different cup measurements in ml and their conversions. This will tell you how many tbsp are needed to make up that cup. This is super important as if you are making a recipe that uses one measurement type and you try to recreate it with another, it may not turn out. To throw a spanner in the works, some countries no longer recognise “cup” as a standard measurement. So what is the purpose of all these different measurement systems and why are they still used?
As a very generalised rule of thumb to save confusion; the US will use either the legal cup or customary cup. The UK and commonwealth countries such as Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa will use the metric cup; with the exception of old recipes which may use the imperial cup.
In the US, there are two main cup measurements; the customary cup which is used in general cooking and the legal cup which is used for nutrition labelling. In the UK both imperial and metric are used. Metric is the most recognised measurement system internationally. However, older recipes that call for a cup measurement are referring to the imperial cup measurement. Australia also uses the internationally recognised metric cup (or the UK Metric cup if you prefer). Australia is also the only country that uses a 20ml tbsp.
SOOOOOOOO HOW DO AUSSIE METRIC TEASPOONS COMPARE TO US TEASPOONS?
I will be doing a post on this at a later date, but as a quick guide, 4 Aussie tsp (5ml) make up one Aussie tbsp (20ml) and only 3 Aussie tbsp make up 1/4 cup.
As for US measurements, 3 US tsp (5ml) make up one US tbsp (15ml). Therefor it takes 4 US tbsp to make up 1/4 cup.
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