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Spoon designed for eating dessert

A dessert spoon is a spoon designed specifically for eating dessert and sometimes used for soup or cereals. Similar in size to a soup spoon (intermediate between a teaspoon and a tablespoon) but with an oval rather than round bowl, it typically has a capacity around twice that of a teaspoon. By extension, the term "dessert spoon" is used as a cooking measure of volume, usually of 10 ml or 1/3 fl oz.

The use of dessert spoons around the world varies massively; in some areas they are very common, while in other places the use of the dessert spoon is almost unheard of—with diners using forks or teaspoons for their desserts as a default. In most traditional table settings, the dessert spoon is placed above the plate or bowl, separated from the rest of the cutlery, or it may simply be brought in with the dessert.

As a unit of culinary measure, a level dessertspoon (dsp., dspn. or dstspn.) equals 2 teaspoons. In the United States this is 1/3 of a fluid ounce. In the UK it is 10 ml.

As a unit of Apothecary measure, the dessert spoon was an unofficial but widely used unit of fluid measure equal to two fluid drams, or 1/4 fluid ounce. However, even when approximated, its use was discouraged: "Inasmuch as spoons vary greatly in capacity, and from their form are unfit for use in the dosage of medicine, it is desirable to be measured with a suitable medicine measure." In the United States and pre 1824 England, the fluid ounce was 1/128 of a Queen Anne wine gallon (which was defined as exactly 231 cubic inches) thus making the dessert spoon approximately The post 1824 (British) imperial Apothecaries' dessert spoon was also 1/4 fluid ounce, but the ounce in question was 1/160 of an imperial gallon, approximately 277.4 cubic inches, yielding a dessert spoon of approximately
In both the British and American variants of the Apothecaries' system, two tea spoons make a dessert spoon, while two dessert spoons make a table spoon. In pharmaceutical Latin, the Apothecaries' dessert spoon is known as cochleare medium, abbreviated as cochl. med. or less frequently coch. med., as opposed to the tea spoon (cochleare minus or minimum) and table spoon (cochleare magis or magnum).