Many authentic sauna enthusiasts know how to keep their saunas dry, germ free, and clean.
And the method is super easy, requires no cleaning or scrubbing.
Authentic sauna enthusiasts practice the “bake and breathe” method, in Finnish: “leipoa ja hengittää”).
What is the bake and breathe method for keeping our saunas dry, germ free, and clean?
BAKE:
When we are done with a sauna session, we make sure we still have some good heat in our sauna stoves. Then we exit our hot room and leave the door closed for the night.
Why? A hot sauna will dry out our saunas after a sauna session. Germs can’t live in this heat. This is BAKE.
BREATHE:
Next morning, authentic sauna enthusiasts will return to their saunas and prop open the hot room door until their next sauna session.
Why? An open sauna hot room door will air out our saunas between sauna sessions. This is BREATHE.
Bake and breathe: the best way to keep our saunas dry, germ free, and clean.
4 thoughts on “Bake and breathe: the best way to keep our saunas dry, germ free, and clean”
Since you leave the door cracked open, have you ever returned to the sauna only to find a raccoon has moved in? 😉
no, but that sounds like a bummer. I sauna pretty regularly.. so not much time for animals to set up shop.
My sauna is built on a deck with an open bottom so it gets good ventilation in any case. But I once left my sauna door open and came back a few days later to find the swallows trying to build a nest on top of my thermometer. Bit of a muddy mess to clean up. They must have thought it the perfect “barn” to setup home base.
Love the swallows but don’t think they would have liked it when I lit up the sauna stove.
Jeff: were they African or European swallows? (forgive.. Monte Python skit came ruminating into my head)…