Does Teaspoon Mean Level or Heaped?

Dry ingredients
A rounded teaspoon is a larger but less precise measure, produced by heaping the ingredient as high as possible without leveling the ingredient off. A heaping or heaped teaspoon is an even larger inexact measure consisting of the amount obtained by scooping the dry ingredient up without leveling it off.

Does tablespoon mean heaped?

For dry ingredients, if a recipe calls for a level tablespoon, the usual meaning without further qualification, is measured by filling the spoon and scraping it level. In contrast, a heaped, heaping, or rounded spoonful is not leveled off, and includes a heap above the spoon.

Is a teaspoon a level teaspoon?

: an amount that fills a teaspoon/tablespoon exactly without going above its edges The recipe calls for a level teaspoon/tablespoon of sugar.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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