Yeah since alchemy is basically mystical, retarded chemistry. Also that nip cartoon with alchemist had a plot point of cooking being alchemy.
Just don't cook with mercury it won't turn to gold leaf and just because you cooked food until it was hard as a rock doesn't mean you made a philosopher's Stone
I think it's witchcraft that gets you sent to hell, not alchemy. If that were the case everyone would go to hell cause our bodies are constantly doing alchemy by turning food into shit.
It is, because I can turn ground up wheat, some water, a few tomatoes, herbal plants, and a bit of fat into a delicious spaghetti, and that's a mystical thing. Especially if I use my copper pot.