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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: 9 levels across 2 sections, about 18 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Brewing Your Best Cup and Choosing and Tasting. It starts from scratch.

9 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Brewster the Bear, the guide who teaches the Better Coffee at Home course
Better Coffee at Home
with Brewster the Bear
9
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Better Coffee at Home

  • Airtight storage is the primary defense against flavor loss
  • Whole beans act as their own protective seal for the oils inside
  • Stale coffee takes on a flat, paper-like, or cardboard flavor
  • Oxygen causes oxidation which strips away the bean's unique character
  • The 'coffee smell' in the air is actually flavor leaving the beans
  • Grinding increases surface area, causing volatile aromatic oils to evaporate instantly
  • Boiling water is too hot for coffee
  • Coffee contains fats and oils
  • Sensory result of oxygen exposure
  • Letting water sit after boiling
  • Leftover oils go rancid
  • Pre-ground coffee flavor loss
  • A clean brewer is necessary
  • Excessive heat extracts burnt compounds
  • Identifying the correct water temperature
  • Impact of old coffee residue
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.

Keeping the Spark Alive

Why do whole beans stay fresh longer than coffee that has already been ground up?

Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.

Course map

Where Better Coffee at Home takes you

Stop settling for bitter office sludge. Learn the simple, high-impact tweaks to your morning routine that turn a standard bag of beans into a cafe-quality experience.

  1. 1

    Brewing Your Best Cup

    • The Golden Rules of Freshness
    • Mastering the Ratio
  2. 2

    Choosing and Tasting

    • Decoding the Coffee Bag
    • Tasting Like a Pro

2 sections · 4 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

Better Coffee at Home 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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Start Better Coffee at Home today.

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