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.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Better Coffee at Home
- Coffee beans lose their aromatic oils and flavor compounds quickly after roasting
- Coffee is roughly 98% water, so water impurities directly transfer to the cup
- Old beans produce a flat, stale, or woody taste regardless of how they are brewed
- Chemicals like chlorine in tap water can ruin the delicate notes of high-quality beans
- Freshness is the primary factor in achieving the vibrant flavors promised on the bag
- Using filtered or bottled spring water is the easiest way to improve coffee flavor
- The impact of roast date on coffee flavor
- The importance of water quality in coffee brewing
- Equipment temperature and acidity
- Under-extraction and temperature
- Pre-heating equipment
- Roast date and flavor
- Carbon dioxide in fresh coffee
- The bloom reaction
- Gas release and extraction
- Water quality
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 brew is nearly all water, what happens if that water tastes like a rusty anchor?
Get it right to open this lesson and 70 more in the app.
Where Better Coffee at Home takes you
Transform your morning routine from a caffeine fix into a craft. Learn to taste, brew, and choose beans like a professional barista using the tools you already have.
- 1
The Quick Win
- Your First Better Cup
- 2
The Golden Ratios
- Measuring by Weight
- Mastering Water Temperature
- 3
Immersion Brewing
- The French Press Technique
- Aeropress Versatility
- 4
The Art of the Pour
- Gravity and Flow Control
- Dialing in the Grind
- 5
Tasting and Troubleshooting
- Identifying the Big Three
- Fixing a Bad Brew
- 6
The Bean Journey
- Reading the Bag
- Storage and Preservation
- 7
Milk and Texture
- The Science of Foam
- Home Latte Art Basics
- 8
Specialty Methods
- Cold Brew Mastery
- The Moka Pot Ritual
- 9
The Deep Science
- The Chemistry of Extraction
- Water Chemistry for Coffee
- The Roasting Transformation
9 sections · 18 units · 71 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Better Coffee at Home is taught in the The Pirate style: arr, learning be an adventure!. 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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