"Charlie" wrote:

Never killed me and my Dads been doing it all my life...

In fact, a similar recipie is in the Jamie Oliver cook book.

Charlie.
Yep,
There's always someone who jumps in and says they've (their dad, their
grandma, their mother's old maiden aunt, etc.) been doing it all their
life and it hasn't killed them. If you want to use unsafe methods, go
for it, just don't foist it on some poor unknowing soul.

Ross.