Most people bring one towel to the sauna. You need two, and they do different jobs. One is small, stays on the bench, and keeps your bare skin off hot wood that plenty of other people have sat on. The other is large, lives outside the hot room, and dries you off between rounds. Once…
For a home sauna, two choices make sense: a wooden bucket with a removable plastic liner, or an anodized aluminum one. Either should hold 4 to 5 liters (about 1 to 1.3 gallons), paired with a ladle long enough to keep your hand out of the löyly (the steam that rises when water hits the…
Water hits the stones, the steam wave rolls up off them, and your ears and scalp feel it before anything else does. Hot air rises, so on the top bench the air around your head can be more than 20°C (about 40°F) hotter than the air down at floor level. A sauna hat is comfort…
Air near the ceiling above the heater runs far hotter than the top bench where you sit. Same room, same moment, 20 degrees apart or more. So the instrument is the easy part. A combined analog thermometer and hygrometer is one of the cheapest things you will ever bolt to a sauna wall, and the…