steam injection + thumper = fruit hydrosol - the scorch ?

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steam injection + thumper = fruit hydrosol - the scorch ?

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Hello all :wave:

This is my first proper post after my introduction.
I've been running a small hydrosol still mainly for herbs. Mint, basil, tea, and other aromatic herbs and flowers have worked well for me with no scorching whatsoever. I personally only am interested in hydrosols, while EO's aren't that interesting for my purposes, which are to make syrups and liqueurs and flavoring neutral to make a good flavored vokda.

Then one day I tried to distill peach hydrosol. And the scorching was pretty bad. Twice in fact.

So I thought maybe using a boiler with water only (no alcohol anywhere near the setup, let alone in the boiler or thumper) to use as a steam gen, injecting steam into my current $h1t11 still (will modify it if the end answer is yes) to make it act as a thumper (I say thumper because it will be filled with liquids, as fruit juice and pulp) so that I can obtain clean fruit hydrosol without scorching the fruit itself ?
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Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!

[edited for typo]

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