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Better Coffee at Home, a free food & drink course on Tomo

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.

A short one: 8 levels across 2 sections, about 16 minutes end to end, roughly 3 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Big Three Methods and The Golden Rules of Flavor. It starts from scratch.

8 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Brew-Brew the Bear, the guide who teaches the Better Coffee at Home course
Better Coffee at Home
with Brew-Brew the Bear
8
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Better Coffee at Home

  • Immersion brewing consistency
  • Grind size and filter texture
  • Pouring technique simplicity
  • Extraction speed and bitterness
  • Coarse grind benefits
  • Coffee grounds naturally float to the top to form a 'crust' during the steep
  • Choosing the correct grind size for a French Press
  • Breaking the crust at the four-minute mark sinks the grounds
  • Plunging should only happen after the grounds have been integrated
  • Understanding the simplicity and consistency of immersion brewing
  • Coffee continues to extract as long as it is in contact with the grounds
  • The metal filter does not stop the brewing process
  • Moving the liquid to a separate carafe 'stops the clock'
  • The sequence of steps to ensure full extraction
  • Preventing over-extraction after brewing
  • Paper filters catch natural oils
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

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.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Art of the Steep

Imagine you used a very fine grind in your French Press. What would you likely find at the bottom of your mug?

Get it right to open this lesson and 7 more in the app.

Course map

Where Better Coffee at Home takes you

Stop settling for bitter office sludge. Learn the three most reliable ways to brew a cafe-quality cup in your own kitchen using simple tools.

  1. 1

    The Big Three Methods

    • The French Press: Bold and Simple
    • The Pour-Over: Clean and Bright
    • The AeroPress: Fast and Forgiving
  2. 2

    The Golden Rules of Flavor

    • The Variables That Matter

2 sections · 4 units · 8 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Storyteller

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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Start Better Coffee at Home today.

Download Tomo, search Better Coffee at Home, and play your first lesson in under a minute.