Update as a few people mentioned the only important thing was the measured amounts held by each spoon.
Not one of them holds the requisite 5ml to be an actual _Teaspoon_™️.
The smallest spoon didn't even register on the scale, the largest was a whopping 11ml!
Notes:
1. yes I'm using the grams unit not the ml on my scale.
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The scale and syringe both appear to agree on what 5ml is.
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I also measured against my actual measuring teaspoon and have included that evidence.
by DualWheeled
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You could present these findings to Cambridge, mate. Call it “The Spoon Paradox” or something.
They’ll give you a grant for definite. If they give grants for making little jetpacks for frogs or whatever, you’ll get one.
The long winter nights must just fly by in your house
This is good work. Citizen Weights and Measures is an important part of any society.
I like this very much!
Careful mate, you’ll have big spoon on your back if you keep revealing their tricks
I’m sure you’re aware, but those scales are not good for much at all, especially not at such small weights
You need a more sensitive set of scales for accuracy. Kitchen scales generally don’t register below a certain weight.
Coffee scales with 0.01g sensitivity is what you want.
The little sticker that says “Please remove before use” has not been removed.
This renders your findings moot.
Good day sir!
Good colour on the tea
Glad to see working at home is going well today,
Signed,
Someone who is also procrastinating on Reddit.
I thought this was some kind of casual heroin post at first glance. Thought r/heroin was on the front page!
Where’s the Accordion?
Ignore the haters, OP. I love how committed you are to this topic.
You should take repeated measurements to account for the measuring precision of your scales
Intrateanously is the best way, I agree.
Funniest part is I saw a documentary once that reminded me that “there is no spoon”. This is just OP in his kitchen playing with scales and repeating “the spoons… different sizes they are yes…” slowly going insane.
I want the world to acknowledge that 1) I brewed tea in a ramekin for this. And 2) I also drank that tea from that ramekin in which I brewed it for this.
Accordion to your “scales”, this was not a very scientific experiment.
I’m very glad you took the feedback from the earlier post and gave the wfh procrastinators what they asked for!
In patisserie, a teaspoon is equivalent to 5ml or 5g.
A table spoon is 3x teaspoons, so 15ml or 15g.
So a quarter teaspoon (about the smallest measurement I actually measure) is 1.25g.
I’ve never been happier seeing an update on a post.
Now you need to cook of bake something that demands a few t spoons of something and compare quality.
Standardized T spoon measured needs to be out to the top our agenda. When OP can finally one day see a BS mark on a T spoon they can rest easy.
Those scales aren’t calibrated for the level of accuracy you need here.
Try a turntable stylus scale. Most are accurate to 0.05 of a gram.
Volume measures are funny because they differ between metric, imperial and US measures.
Metric = 5ml, Imperial = 5.9ml and US teaspoon = 4.9ml.
Most modern cutlery will use metric, but we likely still have lots using the traditional imperial teaspoon.
Now this is content I want to see.
Maybe this is a post great for The Dull Men’s Club on Facebook.
Clean your scale please
Are you not just weighing spoons here?
Why not use water as your liquid for the measurements? You don’t know the density of your tea solution whereas water (although it won’t be pure) will be pretty close to 1g/ml?
My favourite (of my own teaspoons) is the one you get most sugar in while still qualifying as *one* teaspoon
Jesus kids, don’t try the new drug craze ‘shooting up tea’ 😂
Ive never seen a more English story then this, please continue your research
Buddy, your small spoon does not weigh less than 1 g (1 g is a paperclip!) and definitely not less than the plastic graduated scoop. Measure again and tare properly
This type of post isn’t the reason I got into reddit but its the reason I stayed. Well done sir, Great Britain salutes you.
Like a crack den but with tea instead of crack
Please post this on Dull Men’s Club if you’re a Facebook user still. They’ll love it.
Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers… Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that?
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