How Many Teaspoons in a Tablespoon?

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The answer to how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon is one of the most important measurements used in cooking for both dry and liquid ingredients.

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Both tablespoons and teaspoons are essential in both cooking and baking. These small spoons are used to measure small amounts of dry and liquid ingredients, such as ground spices or liquid vanilla.

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Learning how to convert tablespoons (tbsp) and teaspoons (tsp) is important when you want to halve or scale up a recipe. In fact, knowing how to convert cooking measurements between US customary and metric systems is also helpful. 

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THE ANSWER The answer to how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon is there are 3 teaspoons in 1 tablespoon.

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AN EXAMPLE That means that if you were to measure salt, for instance, 3 teaspoons full of salt would be the exact same as 1 tablespoon of salt.

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MEASURING TIP When measuring dry ingredients with teaspoons and tablespoons, it is important to fill them, then take a knife and level off the top to get an accurate measurement.  Also HEAPING means you don't level, and instead overfill the teaspoon or tablespoon.

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