John Myers
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So much ml is a tablespoon – different foods
It’s easy to measure different amounts with a tablespoon. Usually the following applies:
- Water: A tablespoon of water is about 10 to 15 ml.
- Milk: A tablespoon of milk is about 15 ml.
- Oil: If you have 1 tablespoon of oil, that’s about 10ml.
- Flour: A tablespoon of flour contains around 9 to 12 g of flour.
- Honey: With a tablespoon of honey you can assume around 20 g.
- Baking powder or vanilla sugar: A tablespoon of baking powder or vanilla sugar is about 8 g.
- Sugar: A tablespoon of sugar weighs about 15 g.
- Cream cheese: A tablespoon of cream cheese is about 20 g.
- Yoghurt: A tablespoon of yoghurt is about 15 g.
- Cocoa or oatmeal: A tablespoon of cocoa or oatmeal accounts for around 8 g.
- Butter: If you measure out a tablespoon of butter, you have around 10g.
- Ground nuts and almonds: A tablespoon of ground hazelnuts or almonds should be around 10 g.
You should bear this in mind when weighing with a tablespoon
Compared to measuring with a measuring cup or weighing with a kitchen scale, the method with the tablespoon is somewhat less precise.
- This is mainly because the spoons are not all the same size. Older tablespoons in particular are larger and hold more liquids etc.
- So if you want to cook or bake something and have information from older recipes, then it is important to reduce the amount accordingly.
- It is often the case that at that time a tablespoon held around 10 to 15 ml, but now it is more like 10 ml on average.
