Distillers can be large or small.
Making your own DIY Distiller is fun and easy, and requires few materials. Humans have been distilling liquids for centuries. If your ancient relatives can make a distiller, you can too. Distilling liquids requires two important elements: heat and a condenser. Heat makes your liquid boil. The steam then travels through a condenser coil, cools and drips out the bottom as a distillate.
Instructions
DIY Distiller Preparation
1. Place the lid of your stockpot on a secure surface. Hammer a nail through the top of the lid. Remove the nail. Hammer the nail through the bottom of your bucket/tub. Remove the nail.
2. Shape the soft copper tubing into a large spiral. Ensure 80 percent of the coil fits inside your large bucket or tub.
3. Thread one tail of your copper spiral into the hole you created on the stockpot's lid. Thread the other tail of the copper spiral through the hole you created in the bucket so that the end is sticking out. When complete, the copper tube will exit the stockpot, spiral through the center of the bucket and protrude out the bottom.
4. Apply your food-safe silicon caulk to the areas where the copper tube exits the stockpot and bucket. This prevents steam and water from escaping their respective containers.
Operating your DIY distiller
5. Pour the liquid you wish to distill into your DIY distiller.
6. Clamp the lid onto the stockpot, and place the copper coil inside the tub. Fill the tub with ice water.
7. Place the stockpot on the stove, with the bucket sitting on the counter. Place a small jar under the copper tubing that protrudes from the ice bucket.
8. Turn the stove to "High" heat. When the liquid begins to boil, distillate will begin to drip out of the copper tubing.
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