Better Coffee at Home
Like Duolingo, but for Better Coffee at Home. 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.
21 levels across 4 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Quick Win, Controlling the Variables, Developing Your Palate, and Sourcing and Storage. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Better Coffee at Home
- Cold ceramic acts as a heat sink
- Dry paper filters contain residual fibers
- Loss of heat causes coffee flavors to flatten
- Hot water washes away the papery flavor
- Pre-heating maintains ideal temperature for tasting notes
- Rinsing helps filter adhere to the brewer
- The impact of cold equipment on coffee flavor
- The purpose of rinsing paper filters
- Leaving water on the grounds too long extracts bitter compounds
- A timer allows you to stop the brew before the bitterness takes over
- Freshly ground coffee contains carbon dioxide that pushes water away
- The 'bloom' is a short pre-wetting stage that degasses the coffee
- Releasing gas allows the water to actually soak into the grounds for extraction
- Consistency in brew time is the key to repeatable flavor
- The function of the bloom phase
- Using a timer to prevent over-extraction
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 Better Coffee at Home 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 your morning cup has a strange, cardboard-like aftertaste, what is the most likely culprit hiding in your brewer?
Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.
Where Better Coffee at Home takes you
Stop settling for mediocre mornings. Learn the simple variables that transform a muddy cup of joe into a professional-quality brew using the gear you already own.
- 1
The Quick Win
- Your First Better Cup
- 2
Controlling the Variables
- The Golden Ratio
- Grind Size and Extraction
- Heat and Time
- 3
Developing Your Palate
- Tasting for Balance
- 4
Sourcing and Storage
- Buying Better Beans
- Keeping It Fresh
4 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Better Coffee at Home is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. 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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