Heh. I kind of did that the other way around a while back. My grandmother when she was still alive, she had a wooden spice rack with these old, old glass-topped push-fit glass jars full of spices. All by the time they got here, old as dust and no use anymore, so I took the rack over for my own use and use it to keep reagents in the jars.
Your spice rack sounds like a really neat job
Always good to have a wide range of herbs, spices, dried mushrooms with various unique culinary flavouring uses etc (I especially like, after curing it, as it must be before use, to use fly agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, powdered either as a base for making spice blends for meat, or added with other spices to chillies and steaks and such, Works wonders, especially and most of all upon the red meats
What I'm doing right now is getting my protective gear on and getting ready to set up a gas-generator for the production of a solution of anhydrous hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid gas) in anhydrous isopropanol, just need to clean my pressure-equalized addition funnel and set up a couple of bits of glassware, filter something and I'm ready to make it and use it, by means of pair of two- necked round bottom flasks, one of them having a bit of glassware customized from broken parts, specifically for piping gases into things using regular lab flasks as gas generator and receiver (the other neck of the receiver is for putting a drying-tube full of dessicant in to keep water vapor out until one is quite ready and waiting to do whatever it is they are about to do, allowing gas exchange so the system is not put under pressure or liable to suck back.)
A little concentrated sulfuric acid goes in the flask being used as the generator, to serve as dehydrating agent and absorb the H2O, when concentrated hydrochloric acid is added, bit by bit by bit and is dehydrated, sending a stream of HCl gas out of the tube from the glassware for the purpose, made from a broken separatory funnel and in to the other flask, containing the pre-dried anhydrous isopropanol and the remainder ends up passing out of the drying agent tube and removed.
