That was a big point of controversy with my childhood school friends, actually.
I was firmly part of team table spoon. Some of my friends would use teaspoons. I always regarded that kind of strange behaviour as first sings of psychopathy.
No one I know uses dessertspoons for every day use. Maybe some own some but it is most likely the fancy table silver kind of thing that will only get used once or twice a year.
Personally I have never heard about them before today.
Table spoons are for serving up food.
This is why spoons need to be standardised lol
So this is a clusterfuck.
Servingspoons are used to serve up food.
Tablespoons are the largest spoons used for eating but according to the term is now used by many english speaking regions the same way as serving spoon. 15 ml in volume typically
Dessertspoons are used primarily for desserts but also for soup and other stuff. 10ml in volume typically
Teaspoons are used to stir tea and coffee. 5 ml in volume typically.
I only know serving spoons, tablespoons and teaspoons. Desert spoons are in the middle and I have probably a similar sized spoon but never known there is a difference. To me it is a smallish tablespoon. But that is where the confusion is coming from. For some the scale just shifted up or down depending on the way you are looking at it.
Yeah this should be standardized. 🥲
So this actually came up recently for me. I wanted to get spoons the same size as the ones I used as a kid to eat cereal, so I ordered some dessert spoons. Turns out, what I actually used as a kid was a teaspoon. My wife was confused when I said the dessert spoons weren’t the right size though, since that is the size of spoon she always used to eat cereal growing up.
