How To Make A Home Made Distillery (PART 2) | Making essential oils 

WARNING: Copper tubing must be cleaned with vinegar steam prior to use, unless you use the still every day. Look up how to do this BEFORE you work any still.

I'm very involved in this sort of thing (I'm in my 87th year) and Thyme is one of my favourite teas. Extremely effective if you have a tickley cough. Thanks for producing this very helpful video. In my opinion, nothing finer than natural medicine. Keep up the. good work!

Thank you very much for the clear illustrations. I am a beginner in processing essential oil as a new beginner i like your suggestions in identifying the appropriate tools and equipment. I am from Ethiopia.

Hey, thanks! I am a druid in training and i'm trying to learn how to make my own herbal extractions. This is very helpful, because lab equipment is expensive, apparently.

I would suggest finding a clear glass bottle which will fit with that bottle top. Cut off the bottom of the bottle, attach the dispensing top, done. The other problem with using that type of bottle is that it's plastic, and plastic #1, which is really unstable & leaches into products, including the original drink which was purchased in it.. Essential oils degrade plastics quickly, especially that type of plastic, so your end product - the essential oil - is likely to have plastic contaminants in it, as would your essential oil water (the distillate), which you had said you planned on using in cooking. I work with essential oils, formulating natural herbal products, so I'm aware of these issues. Plastic is never the way to go with these, or any, oils. Store your end products - the oil & the distillate - in glass containers with tight fitting lids to prevent loss of volatile oils (which are also present in the water, just in lesser amounts). Really nice design. I will be trying this out myself in the future. Thanks very much for the video, very nicely done.

Wow! This video is definitely amazing! Thank you for kindly sharing it.

Thank you so much for this video. Very clear, and understandable for a newbie like myself. My new project starts next week. Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing such valuable information.

Thank you very much for sharing this great method with us!!!

Very well done video. I already have a pressure cooker like that, just need to get the tubing and buckets. Thank you for such an easy video to go by.

Best Video so far. Thank you

Meny thanks for a very clear description of making your still, especially the re working of the coil ,I'm hoping to make alcohol, not for drinking myself but for bartering for food in the up coming bleak times ahead, I have subscribed and looking forward to following a lot of your recipes, keep up your very good works.

Great idea

Thank you. You discuss the process in a clear and easy to understand manner, which makes things much easier to follow. I will definitely build my own distiller using your design. Many thanks from South Africa

Thank you was waiting for Part II a definite keeper for me. Appreciate your honest advice will definitely share this I haven’t done it yet so Glad I waited for this 👍🏻🥰

Love this! Thank you.

Thank you for the tips.

Thanks for sharing informative videos.

Thank you for both of the videos. I'll try your method for sure. It was easy to understand for the 1st timer like me. 🙂 P.s. try using a injection tube to extract the oil. See if that works better than the bottle. Thanks again.

Great demo - thanks 👍

thanks for making this video, i am setting up the same setup as per your video and i will use 3c or 4 meters of the micro bore, cheers Paul

Thanks for the tip

Best 💡

A very practical approach to problem solving and great presentation. I watched this with a view to making lavender oil which is brilliant for treating burns when you are using a soldering iron without the need to buy elaborate equipment which will be only used occasionally. Thank you and best wishes from Australia

Love it

Wonderful video well presented easy to understand. Exactly what is was looking for as i want to try and make tea tree oil. Keep it up & well wishes from Malaysia.

I like it. Thank you

🙏 greetings sir from Indonesia, thank you for the knowledge,

thank you !

Thank you again

From watching your 1st video, I went with 11ft. They don't sell in meters where I am. That was yesterday, today I am watching your 2nd video. At first I got scared. But now I am ready. Hopefully it works. :) thank you.

Most sports caps will fit on other bottles. I do like the easy way of making the distillery.

I have my setup ready. So glad to see this video. Very helpful. I was thinking of just putting the herb/plant drippings- both oil and water- into a double boiler and heating it gently until all of the water is evaporated. What are your thoughts on that?

Wow! Amazing indeed. You got yourself a new sub. I love to make my own essentials oils but the old school method of grinding dry herbs and then pour olive or grapeseed oil and store in dark place for endless weeks before using the oil. This is absolutely beautiful and grand idea. If you make the bucketwith the copper coil and market it, I will be your first customer. Thank you for the tutorial!

Super plants sir super

Beautiful work,try using a hospital IVneedle setup with the regulatory clip for the separation

👏 Gonna do this for my buisness.

You absolutely can not use plastic- smooth or otherwise- in distillation or storage of e oils. They melt plastic within 10 or so hours. I was totally impressed with how much good looking e oil you got!! I never thought a dried herb would yield like that🤗....very nice! I'm off to home Depot for copper tubing and hose!! Good job 👍👌!!

Was the 4 meter copper tubing easier to coil and could it be done by one person?

It is quit interesting to cultivate oil with out the help of cooling pump as others . My question is how efficient is the copper coil outlet ? is it 100 % catches oil or probably trace amount of oil with vapor would escape without saving. thank you again .

As my mother tongue is different I have just one question about the flex tubing that connects the coil with the pressure cooker. Is it a standard hose for watering plants in the garden or it is some special thing that can endure temperature better?

Hey, so how long aproximetaly is the water boiling for?

just a though?; did you clean the manufacturers residue ,if any out of the copper tube. I always wash any new items .

Have tried the improved setup. I'm getting hydrosols and barely any oils. What could I be doing wrong? How can I improve on the essential oils output?

What's the name of the plastic tubing?

could this idea be used with waste engine oil?

I was concerned the hose connected to the pressure cooker would melt. Is the hose rated for high temperature?

how can you be sure the steamer won't blow up if your using the safety valve for the egress of the steam product.

How did you get the rest of water out of essential oil

thank you very much . The carcass will be ground to extract the frankincense oil

do a parts list

Omg I’m gonna make this!!! I was trying to figure out how to put the money together to get a kit and you just gave me the go that I will have a home distillery! I’m searching for a rolling table now to put near the stove and a double boiler! 🤩

Hi there could you separate the water and oil if you put the liquid into the freezer and when the ice froze you could remove it or would that compromise the oil?

i would like to distill lemon grass to get lemongrass essential oil do i add anything or i just put the grass as it is in the pressure cooker

do you stil have the "kink" at the bottom like in the first video ? down, up and down again outside the bucket ? tyvm

If you take the sports drink bottle with the ribs and apply heat to the ribs (not excessive heat) you will get the ribs to expand out and have a smooth side. You may get better results with doing that before you cut the bottom off, not sure. I just watched a youtube video once where it was done and it worked well.

I am paraud you I solte you for this video ❤️👍 mumbai INDIA 🇮🇳

could you put the condenced water and oil in the fridge to harden the oil, then tip the water away??

try using a fat or gravy oil fat separator cup.

I'll probably use 2m micr- copper tubing

I need something like this. In emergencies we have no fresh water. What we do have is lots of salt water. If I could turn salt water into fresh water we may actually live. After our last hurricane we had no water for over a month. If we didn't have aid agencies trucking in water we would have been in trouble.

I would freeze the bucket with pipe in place in deep freezer

I know I'm late but I just wanted to tell you that dried herbs gives you more essential oils that fresh herbs. if you used 100g of fresh herbs it will contain lots of water so most of the weight is water. however 100g of dried herbs will contain no liquid it has more "herbs" if you know what I mean lol, meaning it will have more essential oils sorry I couldn't explain it better

0:08 Spy camera incoming My stupid joke aside, great video! :)

Can i make moonshine

My question is , is not the heat melting the hose ?

Why you didn't put the leaves how to distilled oil scent its not clear

how much rose oil can i yield with one ba tch of distilling?

I can wait to use this to make moonsh... I mean... er oils.

Why not just use an eyedropper and suck the good stuff off the top before it’s mixed again

The copper spiral is still far too long. You say it's 4 meters., one meter is more than enough.

Not quite Genesis 1:7 So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the oils above. And it was so. Aaah, SO close! 😅

Are you not concerned about pulling carcinogens from the plastic? Why not just spend $150 for a cheap Chinese pot still? They’re stainless steel and copper.

thanks again. i'm looking forward to doing the thyme water as well. i have lots of thyme and rosemary from the garden i can work with. Tangerines too.