Absolutely right. This isn't something anyone should even contemplate in the kitchen! If they are thinking about it, then they don't know what they don't know.

Absolutely right. This isn't something anyone should even contemplate in the kitchen! If they are thinking about it, then they don't know what they don't know. Experience in chemistry is needed, and that's unfortunately a lot rarer now in the US than it was 50 years ago. People (and governments) have developed a (mostly unwarranted) fear of it. The minimum processing requirement (aside from the furnaces and metallizing equipment etc.) is a polyethylene sink hood with at least 100 ft per min flow and a neutralizing tank connected to the drain line, along with fume exhausted chemical storage below. If you can't acquire or build that, you shouldn't proceed further. I did a lot of commercial work in a three foot hood with a large Corning hotplate. You also need an arrangement to recycle your organic solvents.