Tablespoons and teaspoons are units of volume that are handy for measuring smaller amounts of ingredients (e.g. spices, oils, vanilla extract) that wouldn’t be practical to weigh on a scale and are too small to measure in cups. They are essential to cooking and baking and used in both the metric and imperial systems. Oops, something went wrong... More @Wikipedia
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