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.
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Key ideas in Better Coffee at Home
- Coffee flavor peaks within 2-4 weeks of roasting
- The ratio of coffee to water dictates the concentration (strength) of the brew
- Beans older than a month lose their aromatic oils and taste flat
- Adding more water makes the coffee thinner, not more bitter
- The roast date is a better indicator of quality than an expiration date
- Bitterness comes from over-extraction, not from using 'too much' coffee
- Coffee freshness window
- Coffee-to-water ratio and strength
- Coarse grinds for long soak times
- Peak window for coffee freshness
- Boiling water extracts burnt flavors
- Fine grinds for fast pressure methods
- Coffee-to-water ratio controls intensity
- Ideal brewing temperature
- Matching grind size to brewing methods
- Measuring by volume (scoops) is inconsistent because dark roasts are fluffier than light roasts
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 you want your coffee to taste stronger and more intense, what should you focus on changing?
Get it right to open this lesson and 9 more in the app.
Where Better Coffee at Home takes you
Stop settling for bitter office sludge and start brewing cafe-quality coffee in your own kitchen using the tools you already own.
- 1
Brewing Your First Great Cup
- The Golden Rules of Brewing
- Fixing a Bad Cup
- 2
Choosing Your Beans
- Decoding the Coffee Bag
- Where the Flavor Comes From
2 sections · 4 units · 10 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Better Coffee at Home is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. 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.
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