This spoon debate is certainly stirring up a lot of confusion. Why can’t someone come up with an idea to remove all this ambiguity?
La cuillère à thé , spécialement conçue pour mesurer la dose parfaite de thé , a une contenance d’environ 5 millilitres. En comparaison, la cuillère à café , souvent utilisée pour le café ou d’autres petites mesures en cuisine, contient environ 3 millilitres
I have both sizes of spoons and they come out for use, depending on what we are drinking… or what measure a Recipe calls for… etc etc
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Coffee spoons are tiny to match tiny coffee cups. Teaspoons are bigger to match teacups.
Well, coffee cups can be much smaller than teacups…
Having succumbed to the epithet that there are none so blind as will not see I had abandoned attempts to persuade anyone that grams are the only unit of measurement anyone needs to use.
Then a light appeared on the horizon from a most unlikely direction. Today, madame le maire posted a flyer in our post box regarding an event in a local village.
Not that I find the prospect of a vegetarian auberge espagnole very exciting.
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What a great idea! The one’s we have here end up with so many quiches and apple tarts that are not interesting meals even if there is meat in most quiches.
I melt butter and mix it with olive oil.
I stuff the bird with onion, lemonand whatever herbs I like.
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But grammes are our standard normal ordinary usual measurement and just part of the furniture to the extent we don’t even think about it, unlike you foreigners with your weirdo ancient non-decimal hangovers. 
Why don;t we go back to the Ancient Sumerian units of grains, shekels and minas? 
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Exactly! This is a forum to help us “foreigners with weirdo ancient non-decimal hangovers” to adapt to your way of life. I find that trying to persuade some people of this is an uphill struggle but I am doing my best.
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Urgh my pedantic humourless tablet corrected ‘forriners’ to foreigners thus making it a bit rude rather than evidently a joke - sorry!
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The intended humour was evident so no offence given
? A lot of the time it is pretty instinctive .Aargh! You cut off the ratios for brownies !
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One Akela for every 12 Brownies.
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Or
unsweetened chocolate : 1.5
butter : 2
sugar : 3
egg : 2
flour. 1
But much variation as do you want fudgy ones, or sweeter ones etc.
There is a cookbook that just has ratios. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (1) (Ruhlman’s Ratios)
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Way back in UK… I was Akela with the local Cubs… (and Acting Group Scout Leader for a while too…)
When I was much younger… and in the Brownies… our Leader was Brown Owl…
Can I assume that these Michael Ruhlman ratios simply relate to volume of ingredients? Do you break the eggs into a container and melt the choclate and butter into containers then – for a brownie – use 1.5 scoops of melted chocolate, 2 scoops of melted butter, 3 scoops of sugar, 2 scoops of (beaten?) egg, and 1 scoop of flour? I am rather reluctant to buy his book just to find out but am curious.
I think Chris is mixing up his units. I am not sure how many Brown Owls there are to an Akela.
I vaguely remember an Akela was a measure of success in scouting for boys
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