# Home Cafe Lab

> Make Better Cafe Drinks at Home. Home Cafe Lab publishes home-tested recipes,
> ratios, and free calculators for cold foam, matcha, cold brew, and lattes.
> Every recipe is tested in a real home kitchen with everyday tools (handheld
> frother, mason jar, moka pot) — no commercial espresso machine required.

## Core answers
- Cold foam ratio: froth 3 tablespoons cold heavy cream to 1 tablespoon 2% milk (plus 1 tsp powdered sugar) for 20–30 seconds until thick and spoonable.
- Cold brew ratio: 1:4 coffee-to-water by weight for concentrate (dilute 1:1 before drinking), or 1:8 for ready-to-drink.
- Latte ratio: about 1/3 espresso (or strong coffee) to 2/3 steamed milk.
- Matcha latte: 1 tsp (2 g) matcha whisked with 2 oz hot water, topped with milk.

## Recipes
- /cold-foam — cold foam recipes
- /matcha — matcha recipes
- /cold-brew — cold brew recipes
- /lattes — latte recipes
- /copycat-recipes — Starbucks & cafe copycats
- /syrups — homemade coffee syrups
- /guides — home barista guides
- /recipes — full recipe index

## Free tools
- /tools — 10 free calculators (cold foam ratio, coffee ratio, espresso ratio, matcha ratio, cold brew, syrup amount, milk-to-foam, oz-to-mL, calories, caffeine)
- /ratio-sheet — printable one-page cheat sheet of every core ratio

## About
- /about — how we test
- /contact — get in touch