Teaspoons: description and volume

A teaspoon has long been present in our life. Knowing its volume in milliliters and weight grams, you can safely cook any recipe. So, a spoon of a certain size will be for us the main measure for measuring the components we need. When it is better to use disposable products, what is the spoon with a long handle for? Answers to these and other questions - in our article.

The very first link, where the spoon is mentioned, refers to the third millennium BC. In Russia, the spoon as a subject for food was presented by Prince Vladimir in 998. After the rite of baptism of all the inhabitants of Russia to raise the cultural level, the prince commanded to eat with special instruments.

Since then, the subject of kitchen utensils has changed a lot. Many varieties of it appeared, and sometimes it is difficult to figure out where and how it should lie on the table.

The main types of spoons - dining, dessert and tea.

• The dining room is used for the reception of the first dish.
• Dessert put, if served pudding, tiramisu, halva, cheesecake, parfait, berries with cream and other soft desserts. It is smaller in size than the dining room.
• A teaspoon is so called because it was an indispensable attribute of tea drinking for stirring sugar or jam, it is served with a tea pair.

The first known mention of a teaspoon dates back to the 18th century. A teaspoon is a small spoon with an oval or rounded bowl and a flat, faceted or twisted handle 15 cm long. It looks like a dining or dessert, but somewhat smaller. Use for ingestion of dessert and drinks - tea, cocoa, hot chocolate.

A spoon is a universal thing. It is used in the church during the communion, music people play them as a percussion instrument. Pharmaceuticals made a dosage of drugs, based on the size and volume of a spoon. Writing down the recipe, the pastry chefs noted the extent to which the required ingredients were needed to prepare the dish along with the measure of weights.

There is a need to standardize the spoon measure. After all, the capacity can not be the same size for the first course and dessert.

The popularity of the tea party provoked the birth of a spoon to the tea meal. Often in culinary recipes indicate the desired composition of ingredients in tablespoons and teaspoons. Therefore, it is necessary to know how much ingredient fits in a volume of 1 spoon in ml and mg.

Other products will have a completely different volume. It is necessary to take into account the recommendations for the recipe, it is written somewhere - with a slide, and therefore the volume will be slightly larger.

Here is a table for food, in accordance with the volume.

And now a gram of cereals, tea and other dry ingredients. The weight of a teaspoon is directly determined by the density of the substance, it is less by 0.5 grams or more.

In the 18th century, numerous coffee and tea houses were opened and, naturally, a new tableware appeared, which is necessary for tea drinking and coffee. There are new rules of etiquette, which are pushing to the manufacture of teas, coffee spoons.

A teaspoon may have a different purpose. Depending on the meal in which it participates, its appearance changes:

• a spoon for cold drinks is similar to a teaspoon, only the handle is longer;

• fruit spoons have sharp teeth on the edge of the calyx;

• ice cream spoons resemble a spatula with bent edges;

• bar spoons represent various devices for mixing cocktails, making absinthe;

• a spoon for olives with an elongated handle and a small bowl with a hole in the middle - the brine is draining, the olive remains on the spoon;

• The spoon for caviar has a slightly rectangular bowl shape and a slightly longer handle than a teaspoon.

It is easy to understand that all these types of spoons will differ not only in size, but in volume.

For the manufacture of teaspoons, as a rule, use stainless steel, silver, gold, alloys of non-ferrous metals. It is extremely rare to cut out wooden spoons, they will come in the form of a gift copy.

Effective and unusual look ceramic teaspoons. Beautifully presented ceramic kits, where a pair of tea and a spoon look like one. Gracefully made tea silver, gold spoons with a ceramic handle. For a cafe, you should buy comfortable and beautiful tea-sets, it will be pleasant and comfortable for visitors, because everything depends on trifles.

Gained their popularity and disposable plastic tea and coffee spoons, which are made from polystyrene. The beauty of these spoons is that they are not washed, and thrown away after use. They are necessary for trips to nature, hiking, traveling. Used plastic utensils when traveling out of the city in garbage bags for recycling.

If you decide to buy tea appliances for yourself or make a gift, then When choosing these items, pay attention to:

• on the quality of steel and its impurities - for stainless steel products;
• on the sample with the stigma - on silver products;
• the device should not smell like chemistry;
• buy spoons of a well-known manufacturer, which has accompanying documents that guarantee their quality;
• high-quality tea appliances should not be lightweight and thin;
• When choosing silver spoons, take high-quality silver; with a high silver content, the alloy is cleaner, quality is higher.

It is customary to give silver devices to the christening of the child, in honor of the first tooth, on the day of birth, at the wedding. Particularly scrupulous to be when choosing a gift for the baby. Table silver of high quality always has a hygienic certificate.

Nowadays, silver teaspoons are in great demand, they are purchased at retail and in sets at an acceptable cost. Tea silver appliances have many beneficial differences - elegant forms, additional decorations, unusual works of the master.

It is always pleasant to give quality gifts, especially silverware. Such gifts remain for a long time in memory and are used in household items.As a rule, silver spoons are presented with an engraving, which is put on the reverse side of the pen, where you can indicate the date of birth of the child, the date of the wedding anniversary or any other reminder in honor of which a gift is made.

Over time, silver fades and becomes less attractive, but to prevent this from happening, It must be properly stored and maintained.

• Silverware is stored separately from other dishes, better - in velvet cases.
• It is recommended to contain silver in a room with low humidity, to avoid contact with gas, rubber products, means containing sulfur particles, they can contribute to silver opacification.
• Parchment, foil is best for storage. They will protect silver from oxidation.
• One of the main rules for the care of silver spoons - carefully wipe with a soft towel, do not leave them wet. You should not wash them in the dishwasher, there may be stains and bloom, which then will be difficult to remove.
• In order for silver to shine and delight in appearance, it must sometimes be cleaned with ammonia, citric acid, vinegar. Each component must be diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10, put silver in the solution for an hour, then wipe well with a soft cloth.
• To clean silver items from plaque, ordinary baking soda will help - we dissolve 30 grams of soda in 100 ml of water, put silver in the resulting solution for 2-3 hours. For the greatest effect, you can put on the fire and give a little boil.
• To restore the shine helps decoction of potatoes. Put the product of silver for 15 minutes in the broth, and it becomes like new.
• Fine can be cleaned silver spoons using toothpaste. Apply the paste on a flannel rag and wipe the spoons.
• You can purchase silver care products at hardware stores.

Next, watch the video with tips on how to care for teaspoons.