Original educational diagram for Australian Tablespoons: Check the 20 mL Measure Before Baking. Values are illustrative and use the assumptions explained in the article.
Look for the recipe's measuring convention
An Australian tablespoon commonly means 20 milliliters, while many metric recipes use 15 milliliters. A US customary tablespoon is about 14.787 milliliters. These are different container sizes. When the recipe identifies its standard, use that standard throughout the recipe rather than switching between a household spoon and a measuring set.
Convert volume before comparing ingredient mass
Three Australian tablespoons occupy 60 milliliters. That equals four 15-milliliter tablespoons. For a gram-to-tablespoon calculation, the tool first uses the ingredient's weight per reference volume, then divides by the chosen spoon volume. The larger spoon therefore gives a smaller spoon count for the same ingredient mass. It does not make the ingredient itself denser.
Check leavening and small quantities separately
A spoon-standard mismatch can have a large relative effect on a small amount. Read the label on the measuring spoon and follow the recipe's specified method. For ingredients that are already given in grams, weighing avoids this particular ambiguity. Do not compensate by heaping a smaller spoon: the shape of a heap is not a reliable extra five milliliters, and packing can change the mass again.
Work through your own quantities with the Grams to Tablespoons Converter. Check the ingredient basis or conversion convention in the form before using its result.
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Continue with US Cups, Tablespoons and Teaspoons: A Practical Conversion Guide. Explore the Cooking converters collection in Food calculators, or browse GreenCalc for other subjects.
For a different part of this task, read Measuring Honey by Spoon: Account for What Stays Behind.
By GreenCalc · Updated 2026-11-03