Baking from Scratch
Like Duolingo, but for Baking from Scratch. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Baking from Scratch
- Volume measurements like 'cups' are inconsistent for dry ingredients
- Melted butter mixes thoroughly with sugar for a denser, chewier result
- A kitchen scale ensures the exact same amount of flour goes into every batch
- Creaming softened butter traps air for a loftier, softer cookie
- Flour packs down differently every time it is scooped into a cup
- The temperature of the fat determines how much the dough spreads in the oven
- Why weighing ingredients is superior to using measuring cups
- The relationship between butter state and final cookie texture
- Mixing flour with wet ingredients develops gluten
- Too much mixing creates a tough, bread-like texture
- Dough should be mixed only until the white streaks of flour disappear
- Cookies continue to bake on the hot metal pan after being removed from the oven
- A cookie that looks 'perfect' in the oven will likely be overbaked and hard once cooled
- The center firms up as the cookie cools down
- The physical result of overworking cookie dough
- When to pull cookies out of the oven to account for carryover cooking
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Baking from Scratch the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you want a cookie that is thin and dense with a chewy bite, how should you prep the butter?
Get it right to open this lesson and 57 more in the app.
Where Baking from Scratch takes you
Go from a nervous novice to a confident baker. Learn the science of flour, the magic of yeast, and the secrets to perfect cakes, breads, and pastries.
- 1
Your First Batch
- The Perfect First Cookie
- 2
Heat and Mixing
- Mastering Your Oven
- The Science of Mixing
- 3
The World of Cakes
- Classic Butter Cakes
- Airy Sponge Cakes
- 4
Fast Breads and Muffins
- Chemical Leaveners
- The Muffin Method
- 5
Starting with Yeast
- Understanding Yeast
- Kneading and Gluten
- 6
Mastering the Loaf
- Proofing and Fermentation
- Shaping and Scoring
- 7
Pies and Flaky Pastry
- Pie Crust Fundamentals
- Fillings and Assembly
- 8
Cookies and Bars
- Cookie Texture Secrets
- Brownies and Bars
- 9
Finishing Touches
- Frosting and Glazing
- Basic Decorating Skills
- 10
The Baker's Why
- Flour, Fats, and Sugars
- Solving Baking Blunders
10 sections · 19 units · 58 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Baking from Scratch is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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