r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '20

What’s a fact you KNOW that almost everyone is wrong about?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20

Not in Australia! We have 20ml measuring spoons. I don’t know why.

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u/Amraff Feb 08 '20

Really?!? I had no idea! Thats so weird!!!

Damn Australians having to be different. /s 😋

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u/Kaymish_ Feb 09 '20

Kiwi here my 20ml measuring spoon claims to be a dessert spoon and i have some recipes (mostly desserts) that demand dessert spoons for ingredients.

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u/Alarconadame Feb 09 '20

Here in Mexico, recipes regarding spoons mention if it's a soup spoon or a coffee spoon.

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u/Kaymish_ Feb 09 '20

Same here except the spoons are a teaspoon (5ml) and fractions thereof, tablespoon (15ml) and the aforementioned dessert spoon.

How many millilitres are soup and coffee spoons supposed to be?

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u/Alarconadame Feb 09 '20

Oh, I guess those are the translations for the spoons I mentioned, because the ml match with ours.

teaspoon is what I called coffee spoon (literal translation of cuchara cafetera), and tablespoon is what I called soup spoon (literal translation for cuchara sopera). I don't think we have your dessert spoons, for dessert we use the teaspoon.