Managing your sauna temperature offers some parallels to good cooking.
Bringing up to temperature
Everyone knows you get your oven up to 425 degrees before you toss in a pizza. Otherwise, your bread gets tough and pizza soggy. Same with sauna, get it up to temperature.
Managing your heat
Know where your temperature is at, whether it’s your grill, oven, or steam pan for broccoli. Radiant heat produces even heat, just like in your sauna. Too hot and the outside is burnt and inside is unaffected.
Idling your heat
Whether we’re talking propane, charcoal briquettes or electric BTUs, it’s a waste to overheat. Food cooks better, more uniform, when you turn the heat off a few minutes before your done. The last sauna round feels best when you take advantage of the remaining thermal heat in your sauna stove.
The simple feel
Chefs just know. They don’t need to cut into halibut to know when it’s done. Same with sauna. When you feel like you want to cool down, you go cool down.
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Yeah, I got nicely up to temp yesterday. I was cooked nice and uniformly.
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some random thoughts: i’ve built two saunas, first one at the lake of logs – wonderful, but too much work – about 12 years ago. couldn’t stand to be without so built one at home a year later. both are about 7’6″ square, the size of the logs and logs siding from a small n mn mill. my wife and i have sauna’d virtually every day since i finished the one at home, sometimes twice a day. prior to building one, i had only been in a sauna 4-5 times. both saunas are single room, with the cabil/house 30 feet away, i felt no need for a change room. we like the temp at 190-200 but the thermometer is 1 foot from the ceiling and where we sit is probably 20-30 degrees cooler. i’ve seen nocomments about loyly fragrances. we like especially the euchalyptus, stronger if a cold coming on, and an herbal mix. the first sauna we initially put in a cedar ceiling but the smell was overpowering and we took it out, the benches are of cedar.we always sauna before dinner, anywhere between 5- 7pm. if our kids are around, they will join us especially if the two grandkids are present. we’re in our mid sixties and our 3 likes to sauna with ” mimi and papa”. we have a large wooden tub which is on a lower step with warm water in it so she has a special bath. sshe jumps in the lake or the cold shower from a hose right with us. the little one is 7 months and just came in her first suana at a lower temp. at about a year they graduate to a 5 gallon plastic bucket and then to the tub. i’ll send more later, you’re welcome to share the comments.