Better Coffee at Home
Transform your everyday morning cup with simple adjustments to water, grind, and brew time. Learn how to diagnose off-flavors and pick beans you will genuinely love.
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.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Dialing In Your Daily Brew and Tasting and Choosing Better Beans. It starts from scratch.
Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Better Coffee at Home
- Coffee strength is primarily controlled by the ratio of coffee grounds to water
- An expensive machine cannot fix coffee that was brewed with too much or too little water
- Coffee beans vary in size, roast density, and settle irregularly in a spoon
- A scale measures actual mass, ensuring identical coffee dosing every single brew
- The standard balanced coffee ratio is 1 gram of coffee to 16 grams of water
- To find the water needed, multiply ground coffee weight by 16 (20g coffee × 16 = 320g water)
- Hot water just off the boil extracts desirable coffee solubles quickly and completely
- Lukewarm water fails to pull sweet, rich compounds out of the grounds, leaving a sour taste
- Brewed coffee is over 98% water, so tap water flaws directly degrade the final cup
- Chlorine in tap water imparts chemical off-flavors that mask coffee's natural sweetness
- The standard balanced coffee ratio is 1 gram of coffee to 16 grams of water; To find the water needed, multiply ground coffee weight by 16 (20g coffee × 16 = 320g water)
- Filtering removes harsh impurities so subtle fruit and floral notes in the coffee bean can shine through
- Hot water just off the boil extracts desirable coffee solubles quickly and completely; Lukewarm water fails to pull sweet, rich compounds out of the grounds, leaving a sour taste
- Finely ground coffee creates far more exposed surface area for water to touch
- Water pulls soluble coffee flavors out much more rapidly across finer particles
- Coarse chunks force water to travel deeper into the bean particle to pull flavors
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.
What happens if you use too much water in an expensive coffee machine?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
How to learn Better Coffee at Home, step by step
Go in order. 12 short levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes in all, five minutes a day.
- 1
Dialing In Your Daily Brew
- The Core Ratios of Good Coffee
- Controlling Extraction with Grind Size
- 2
Tasting and Choosing Better Beans
- Diagnosing Sourness and Bitterness
- Decoding the Coffee Bag
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Questions about Better Coffee at Home
How do I learn Better Coffee at Home?
Go in order: start with Dialing In Your Daily Brew, then Tasting and Choosing Better Beans. On Tomo that's 12 short levels, about 24 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.
Is there a Duolingo-style app for Better Coffee at Home?
Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Better Coffee at Home is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.
Is the Better Coffee at Home course free?
Yes. Better Coffee at Home is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.
How long does it take to learn Better Coffee at Home?
12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.
Do I need any background to start Better Coffee at Home?
No. It's pitched at a beginner level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.
Tomo is in ChatGPT
Tomo is also a ChatGPT plugin: the same playable courses, built and played inside your chat.
Add Tomo to ChatGPT- What to ask
- “Make me a Tomo course on black holes.” “Turn this chat into a Tomo course.”
- What you get
- Quick questions with instant feedback, hearts and stars, ready to play in about a minute.
- Where it goes
- No sign-up to start. Connect your Tomo account and your streak carries on in the app.
You pick the voice
Better Coffee at Home is taught in the Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. 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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