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Dunkin' Sweet Coffee at Home, a free food & drink course on Tomo

Dunkin' Sweet Coffee at Home

Stop spending five dollars a day at the drive-thru. Replicate Dunkin's signature sweet iced and hot coffees at home using exact supermarket ingredients, secret ratios, and homemade swirls.

Like Duolingo, but for Dunkin' Sweet Coffee at Home. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

21 levels across 3 sections, about 42 minutes end to end, roughly 8 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Core Copycat Formula; Dairy, Sugars, and Flavor Swirls; and Signature Recipes and Daily Routines. It starts from scratch.

21 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Benny the Bean, the guide who teaches the Dunkin' Sweet Coffee at Home course
Dunkin' Sweet Coffee at Home
with Benny the Bean
21
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Dunkin' Sweet Coffee at Home

  • Dunkin's iced coffee profile relies on intense double-strength coffee to withstand melting ice
  • Higher-fat dairy like light cream provides the signature rich body and pale color
  • Liquid sweetener blends instantly without leaving undissolved grit at the bottom
  • A medium (24 oz) Dunkin iced coffee defaults to 3 measures of cream and 3 measures of sugar
  • The standard Dunkin 'regular' rule scales 1 measure per roughly 8 ounces of total cup size
  • Syrup and dairy should hit the bottom of the cup first so the pouring motion naturally blends them
  • Ice goes in before pouring the hot double-strength brew so the liquid cools as it enters
  • Pouring coffee directly over the sweet dairy base incorporates everything evenly without trapped syrup pockets
  • Hot coffee rapidly melts ice cubes, cutting the coffee concentration in half
  • Brewing at double strength compensates for unavoidable ice dilution to keep that bold Dunkin backbone
  • A medium clone uses 10 ounces of concentrated coffee to leave room for ice and dairy
  • The home equivalent of Dunkin's 3-and-3 ratio is 3 tablespoons of cream and 3 tablespoons of syrup
  • Filling the 24-ounce glass completely with ice is required to chill the brew instantly
  • Dunkin's signature profile is built on smooth, low-acid medium-roast 100% Arabica beans
  • Dark espresso roasts create an intensely bitter, burnt flavor that clashes with Dunkin-style syrups and creamers
  • Light roasts add sharp fruitiness and acidity that Dunkin iced coffee does not have
Why not just Google it

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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 Dunkin' Sweet 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.

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

Secrets of the Medium Iced

What dairy gives a Dunkin iced coffee its famous pale look and creamy thickness?

Get it right to open this lesson and 20 more in the app.

Course map

Where Dunkin' Sweet Coffee at Home takes you

  1. 1

    The Core Copycat Formula

    • The Blueprint: Cracking the Medium Iced
    • The Base Brew: Nailing the Coffee Concentrate
  2. 2

    Dairy, Sugars, and Flavor Swirls

    • The Dairy Secret: Why Milk Fails and Cream Wins
    • Liquid Sugar: Eliminating Gritty Ice Cubes
    • Flavor Swirls vs. Flavor Shots
  3. 3

    Signature Recipes and Daily Routines

    • Recreating Cult-Favorite Seasonal Drinks
    • The 50-Cent Morning Routine: Batching and Cost Savings

3 sections · 7 units · 21 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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