Five questions, in a few minutes. They ask about your manual skills and the place a still would find in your home. There is no right or wrong.
From everyday life
For each question, choose what comes closest to you. There is no right or wrong here. Your answers remain in your browser and are gone when you close the page.
At the end there are five paragraphs, one for each question. You see one question at a time. There is no right or wrong. Your answers remain in your browser and are gone when you close the page.
What you bring with you
Your answers show most clearly your manual dexterityyour care in handling glassyour motivationthe space for the apparatusyour basic technical understanding. Most remains to be clarified regarding your manual dexterityyour care in handling glassyour motivationthe space for the apparatusyour basic technical understanding. What this means in detail is set out in the five paragraphs below.
Your answers show most clearly your manual dexterityyour care in handling glassyour motivationthe space for the apparatusyour basic technical understanding. What remains to be clarified for the other four is set out in the five paragraphs below.
Several things show equally clearly in your answers. Most remains to be clarified regarding your manual dexterityyour care in handling glassyour motivationthe space for the apparatusyour basic technical understanding. What this means in detail is set out in the five paragraphs below.
Several things show equally clearly in your answers, and several remain equally to be clarified. The picture is balanced; the five paragraphs below show it in detail.
According to your answers, all five are equally new to you. The first course presupposes none of them; it begins with the very first step. What this means in detail is set out in the five paragraphs below.
According to your answers, you know all five in outline, none of them shows more clearly than the others. The training will therefore find a starting point everywhere. What this means in detail is set out in the five paragraphs below.
According to your answers, you bring all five with you. The first course nonetheless begins for everyone at the empty glass, and you will find little that is new there. What is new afterwards is set out in the five paragraphs below.
What is written here is what you yourself have said about yourself. This page knows no more.
Manual skills
Craftwork has not been your field so far. That is the usual case, and the first course expects it. It begins at the empty glass, step by step, and some thirty videos show each step once more, as often as you wish.
Craftwork suits you when it must, but no more than that. The apparatus demands neither strength nor artistry; it demands repetition. The first course demonstrates every step until it is second nature.
Your hands have learned what they do. At the instrument this serves you well, and the assembly soon becomes familiar. What remains is the particular nature of glass, and that is what the first course teaches.
Handling glass
Until now glass has been an everyday object. The first course therefore begins at the empty glass, before any water goes in, step by step. Georg Udorf assembles the apparatus in your home and shows every step on your own device as he does so.
You trust yourself to handle glass with care, though you are not certain. The apparatus demands it in the same way every time, and that is exactly what the first course practises. It leaves the glass empty until every step is second nature.
You are familiar with glass. At the instrument the grip remains the same, only the glass there is hot, and the heat determines how firmly and for how long. What is new is this glass alone; borosilicate withstands heat, but not every knock.
Motivation
You come for the experience. That is enough. The first course presupposes no prior knowledge; it begins with the very first step, and the audiobook on this site tells at leisure what lies behind it.
The subject has accompanied you for some time. The training turns it into handiwork, over twelve evenings, one each week. What you have read becomes something your hands can do.
You bring with you what others first come to know in the course. The three courses go beyond it, as far as multiple distillation, in which the same water passes through the glass several times.
Space for the apparatus
A fixed surface of this size is not yet ready in your home. For the training this is no obstacle; for operation afterwards it is a question. A stable table of 120 by 50 centimetres suffices, and where it might stand is best clarified in conversation.
The space could be arranged. Nothing more is needed than a stable surface at desk height, 120 centimetres wide and 50 deep. During assembly Georg Udorf looks at the place together with you.
The space is ready. This settles what would otherwise only become apparent on the day of assembly. Georg Udorf sets up the apparatus there and guides you through the first pass on your own device.
Basic technical understanding
Technology is not foreign to you, though you have never gone into it deeply. The apparatus demands nothing for which one would need a manual; it has a heat source, a thermometer and a cooling circuit. The second course takes each of the three parts on its own.
You understand technical matters when someone shows you. That is exactly how the training is built, demonstrated, repeated, practised again. The second course leads to the decision about heat, at the thermometer and in the rhythm of the drops.
Technical connections reveal themselves to you of their own accord. Cooling circuit, phase change and temperature control will ask little of you. What remains is experience on your own device, and that is gained only through the passes themselves.
Whichever answers you have chosen, the next step is the same, a conversation without obligation.