You Need a Kitchen Brick
by Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to from Lifehacker on (#56TNB)

Bricks are not something you can buy at Williams-Sonoma or Sur La Table, but perhaps they should be, as they are extremely useful in the kitchen. Actually, scratch that. Both retailers are extremely skilled at making the once-affordable inaccessible, and would probably end up selling locally sourced sediment weights...