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A dessert spoon is a spoon designed specifically for eating dessert. Similar in size to a soup spoon (intermediate between a teaspoon and a tablespoon) but with an oval rather than round bowl, it typically has a capacity around twice that of a teaspoon.
By extension, the term "dessert spoon" is used as a cooking measure of volume, usually of 10 millilitres (mL), Fluid ounce, or Fluid ounce.
In most traditional , the dessert spoon is placed above the plate or bowl, separated from the rest of the cutlery, or it may simply be brought in with the dessert.
| 1 US customary dessert spoon | =|align=right|2|US customary fluid drams |
| = | US customary fluid ounce |
| = | US customary tablespoons |
| = | US customary teaspoons |
| = | US customary coffee spoons |
| = | Salt spoon |
| = | US customary dashes (solids only) |
| = | US customary pinches (solids only) |
| = | US customary smidgens (solids only) |
| = | US customary drops (liquids only) |
| ≈ | British imperial fluid drachms |
| ≈ | Fluid ounce |
| ≈ | UK tablespoon |
| ≈ | UK dessert spoons |
| ≈ | UK teaspoons |
| ≈ | Salt spoon |
| ≈ | UK pinches (solid only) |
| ≈ | UK drops (liquids only) |
| ≈ | millilitres |
| ≈ | international metric tablespoon |
| ≈ | Australian metric tablespoon |
| ≈ | metric dessert spoon |
| ≈ | metric teaspoons |
In the United Kingdom, a dessert spoon is traditionally 2 British imperial fluid drachms Paragraph 665, page 119, Enquire Within Upon Everything (1894) ( of a British imperial fluid ounce). 1 UK dessert spoon is the equivalence of UK tablespoon, 2 UK teaspoons, or 4 Salt spoon.
| 1 UK dessert spoon | =|align=right|2|British imperial fluid drachms |
| = | UK tablespoon |
| = | UK teaspoons |
| = | UK salt spoons |
| = | UK pinches (solids only) |
| = | UK drops (liquids only) |
| = | British imperial fluid ounce |
| ≈ | US customary fluid drams |
| ≈ | Fluid ounce |
| ≈ | US customary tablespoon |
| ≈ | US customary dessert spoon |
| ≈ | US customary teaspoons |
| ≈ | US customary coffee spoons |
| ≈ | Salt spoon |
| ≈ | US customary dashes (solids only) |
| ≈ | US customary pinches (solids only) |
| ≈ | US customary smidgens (solids only) |
| ≈ | US customary drops (liquids only) |
| ≈ | millilitres |
| ≈ | international metric tablespoon |
| ≈ | Australian metric tablespoon |
| ≈ | metric dessert spoon |
| ≈ | metric teaspoons |
A metric dessert spoon is 10mL, the equivalence of 2 metric teaspoons.
| 1 metric dessert spoon | =|align=right|10|mL |
| = | international metric tablespoon |
| = | Australian metric tablespoon |
| = | metric teaspoons |
| ≈ | British imperial fluid drachms |
| ≈ | Fluid ounce |
| ≈ | UK tablespoon |
| ≈ | UK dessert spoons |
| ≈ | UK teaspoons |
| ≈ | Salt spoon |
| ≈ | UK pinches (solids only) |
| ≈ | UK drops (liquids only) |
| ≈ | US customary fluid drams |
| ≈ | Fluid ounce |
| ≈ | US customary tablespoons |
| ≈ | US customary dessert spoons |
| ≈ | US customary teaspoons |
| ≈ | US customary coffee spoons |
| ≈ | Salt spoon |
| ≈ | US customary dashes (solids only) |
| ≈ | US customary pinches (solids only) |
| ≈ | US customary smidgens (solids only) |
| ≈ | US customary drops (liquids only) |
In the United States and pre-1824 England, the fluid ounce was of a Queen Anne wine gallon (which was defined as exactly 231 cubic inch) thus making the dessert-spoon approximately . The post-1824 (British) imperial Apothecaries' dessert-spoon was also fluid ounce, but the ounce in question was of an imperial gallon, approximately 277.4 cubic inches, yielding a dessert-spoon of approximately .
In both the British and American variants of the Apothecaries' system, two tea-spoons make a dessert-spoon, while two dessert-spoons make a table-spoon. In pharmaceutical Latin, the Apothecaries' dessert-spoon is known as cochleare medium, abbreviated as cochl. med. or less frequently coch. med., as opposed to the tea-spoon (cochleare minus or minimum) and table-spoon (cochleare magis or magnum).
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