Using DME to prime bottles?

[Alex.mc]

I have about 17 litres of an Ale to bottle(once I've left off the trub and hops), and wondered about using DME rather than table sugar. I've used table sugar before, and appreciate it can "Dry" a beer, but I like drier beers and it's been very easy with a funnel to dose each bottle before capping.
Can I just dose the bottle the same way with DME? just sterilise a spoon and then load it up on a scale to note how much equals 3g or so(what I've got as a dose for 500ml from a calculator), and then pour it straight in via the funnel and then cap and give it a shake?
Most methods suggest boiling it up into a solution and adding to a keg etc.

 

[terrym]

In my view the flavour contribution made to the finished product by 2.5 gm or so of DME if used for priming 500ml of beer will be negligible. Stay with table sugar, its cheap, easy to handle when dry, and predictable.