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We asked a finish colleague about smoke sauna (you heat with wood and a part of the smoke is lead inside), about details and reason. Answer: We don't need a re
by ng55QPSK 5y ago
We asked a finish colleague about smoke sauna (you heat with wood and a part of the smoke is lead inside), about details and reason.
Answer: We don't need a reason for sauna.
- vanderZwan 5y agoThat is a more verbose reply than I would have expected in response to a question like that, and I'm not even joking
- gorkempacaci 5y agoI take it you have’t met many Finnish people.
- vanderZwan 5y agoI live in Sweden, so I have, and most of them would have just given me the Finnish piercing blank stare of "why are you hurting my brain with stupid questions like that?"
- nabla9 5y agoFormer US ambassador to Finland, Bruce Oreck had an unusual smoke sauna experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQW27oJ3YU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQW27oJ3YU To be clear: The smoke comes inside only when you heat the sauna and goes out trough small opening in the wall. You bath after the fire is out, not when the sauna is full of smoke. What is left is the smell of smoke in the walls.
- emerongi 5y agoThis is correct, however you will still breathe in smoke "residue", which can be a bit uncomfortable and it will also cling to your body/hair. Even if you wash thoroughly after the sauna, you will notice a smoke smell on your hair. A smoke sauna is just an inferior version of the modern Finnish sauna. It's a bit of a hassle to prepare and I personally dislike the "smoke effect".
- nabla9 5y agoI agree. So called "aitokiuas" type stoves replicates the gentle heat feeling that comes from heat storing smoke sauna without the smoke. They can be electric or wood stoves. https://narvi.fi/en/product/aitokiuas-ak47-ak57k/ https://narvi.fi/en/product/aitokiuas-ak47-ak57k/
- pasiaj 5y agoFinns rarely discuss or think about benefits or reasons for taking a sauna. Most Finns are accustomed to going to sauna weekly. It’s such an ingrained part of our live that don’t really think about it. We’ve got 5 million people and 2,5 million saunas. Sauna is free from distractions like electronics, it’s free of associations relating to productivity and work, so it becomes a meditation of sorts, but we usually don’t try to make it so. Sauna is sauna. Sauna’s purpose is sauna. The benefit of sauna is sauna.
- neocodesoftware 5y agothats a direct quote from the miracle of mindfulness
- rebuilder 5y agoThat's not exactly what a smoke sauna is. It's a sauna with a big load of stone that's heated up over a long time. There's no chimney, so once the heating is done and the fire has died out, the smoke is aired out. The large thermal mass of the stone keeps the sauna hot. As for the reason, the design is just really old. It's how you heat a sauna when you don't have a chimney. As a side effect, the long heating, the large thermal mass, and supposedly the soot that collects on the walls combine to produce a reputedly smoother experience with the heat seeming to be more even than in a more modern sauna.
- ng55QPSK 5y agoYou are right, i was short on the description. But main point is: There is no point in asking questions.
- Ilikesauna 5y agoMost saunas are great. I had the opportunity to restore a 100+ yr smoke sauna[0] some years ago. Definitely a more special experience in the smoke sauna imo. But im biased :) [0]http://www.siimut.ee/cv/gal-sauna/ http://www.siimut.ee/cv/gal-sauna/
- trutannus 5y agoEstonians also are big on saunas. I could not find a single property listing which did not include a sauna. Guess I'll have to get into saunas...
- tinus_hn 5y ago> part of the smoke is lead inside This is an interesting sentence construct that can be interpreted in two completely different ways!