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 The Perfect Extraction and Buying and Tasting. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Better Coffee at Home
- Volume-based measuring (scoops) varies based on how the beans settle
- The 1:16 ratio means 1 part coffee to 16 parts water
- Darker roasts are less dense and take up more space than light roasts
- Water and coffee are measured in grams for precision
- A scale measures the actual mass of the coffee regardless of bean size or air gaps
- 1:16 is the standard baseline to avoid coffee being too sour or too bitter
- Why weighing coffee is superior to using a scoop
- Applying the 1:16 golden ratio to a standard brew
- Boiling water can scorch coffee
- Letting the kettle rest
- Lower temperatures protect oils
- Tap water minerals and chlorine
- Applying the 1:16 golden ratio
- Filtered water as a blank canvas
- Coffee is 98% water
- The impact of boiling water on coffee flavor
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.
When following the 1:16 Golden Ratio, how many parts of water do ye need for every single part of coffee?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where Better Coffee at Home takes you
Stop settling for bitter office sludge. Learn the simple variables that turn your morning caffeine routine into a genuine craft experience.
- 1
The Perfect Extraction
- The Golden Ratio
- Grinding for Flavor
- 2
Buying and Tasting
- Decoding the Bag
2 sections · 3 units · 9 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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