Wanna make a still??
It's super easy!
Step 1) Get yourself a LARGE pot with a domed lid. Like one you'd use for canning.
Step 2) Put something in the center to elevate the receptacle for your distillate. I used a brick wrapped in cling wrap.
Step 3) Pour whatever you want to distill around the platform. In this case, it was a couple of quarts of rose petals barely covered with some tap water.
Step 4) Put a receptacle on the elevator (pyrex measuring cup, ftw) .
Step 5) Put the lid on upside down (handle facing downward), and let the liquid come to a boil. As soon as it boils, reduce the heat to a simmer, and - here's a key point - dump some ice on the "top" of the lid. This is majorly important. The simmering liquid vaporizes and hits the top of the closed container. The ice cools the vapor, which runs down to the inverse dome's tip and drips into the waiting receptacle.
Keep an eye on it, replacing the ice as needed. Taste it every twenty minutes or so, for quality/quantity control.
At the end of an hour, I had about three cups of distillate (otherwise known as rosewater). You can use this on your face as an astringent, on your hair for a perfume, or as an ingredient in cooking.
For example, this gorgeous snack of orange slices with rosewater and pistachios:
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