Personally I like to take long hot showers to relax and think. (See recent related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34289138 https://news.ycombinator.com/it

Personally I like to take long hot showers to relax and think. (See recent related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34289138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34289138 ) This would otherwise be expensive and wasteful of water and energy, but it doesn't take much of either to keep the shower flooded with steam. Plus I'm not drying out my skin while trying to stay warm with too-hot water; cool water in the hot environment feels great for wash 'n rinse. It also feels good to breathe the steam.