When people ask for a tablespoon I think of the thing that most people use to eat a bowl of cereal. I don’t like tablespoons, I eat everything with a teaspoon.

A standard colloquial tablespoon in my drawer holds 7.5ml of water edge to edge, which is exactly the 1/2 tablespoon measure on my actual spoon measures.

The actual tablespoon measure I have which is 15mls comes out to weighing around 12g of water.

A scoop of butter with this measure is approximately 14g.

But looking at sticks of butter with “tablespoon” measures it looks closer to 20 or 25g and some recipes have said to is means 20-25g.

DO YOU SEE WHY I AM STRESSED

Thank you to everyone who is filling my replies with pictures of their butter! The labels you have seem very helpful for the recipes you have.

It does not help me in so much as “these look like more than 15g of butter” and “colloquially a tablespoon here in the UK seems to hold about 7.5g” and “some of these pics look like they have different ideas of tablespoons just like your damn cups”

But it does help me to know my frustrations are valid and generally all your butter metrics do seem to be largely the same, so I do indeed have a much better idea of what I am working with.

Cheers!

I am not a very confident cook these days. I will ask Esther for recipes for the amazing stuff she cooks me but she is so fucking good (seriously) at cooking that it’s just vibes and experience a lot of the time.

My vibes are off 🤣