Traditional Wood Sauna Stoves and the Finnish Sauna Culture

Traditional wood burning saunas go to the heart of pure sauna experience. Everything is remarkable from the ritual of tending the fire to the incomparably soft heat, the crackle of a wood fueled fire, lush hiss of steam and the relaxing moment. Traditional Finnish saunas are definitely a treat for body and mind.

Throughout the world cultures and races can be seen using sweat baths for hygienic and medicinal purposes. Every culture has their own reasons for using sweat baths, yet all with the same objective. Sweat baths are known for preventing disease and imparting good health by eliminating toxins from the body through sweat.

Most of us will agree that Finnish sauna is the most notorious and popular sweat bath. Modern wood saunas that we see today first came into existence in around 5^th century when northern European tribes came and settled down leaving behind their nomadic lifestyle. Sauna is a Finnish word as a matter of fact and it is the only Finnish word to become part of the world vocabulary. You will be taken by a surprise to know that sauna in Finland is for every occasion, not just for leisure, people are seen having their business meeting while having sauna bath. In fact it is absolutely normal to have a political or business meeting in the sauna.

Wood fired sauna heater - Kota Family 16 - Heats 550 Cubic Feet

Traditional Finnish saunas are heated by wood. These are either burned in a Wood Sauna Stoves with a chimney or without chimney. The sauna stove without the chimney is a smoke sauna and is considered as an original sauna by the Finns and is believed to be the best by them. The door of the sauna is closed after the wood is burned and much of the smoke has already escaped. Traditional Wood Sauna Stoves gives it a soft heat along with aroma of wood smoke.

Apart from all of these there are other benefits of having Wood burning Sauna Heaters:

1. It doesn’t require electricity making it perfect for remote locations and cabins
2. Wood burning Sauna Heaters have large rock capacity, this means you get soft heat/steam
3. They are provided with optional enclosed water tank

Wood fired sauna heater - SaunaCore Country Living 16- Heats 700 Cubic Feet

The Wood burning Sauna Heaters are designed to eliminate the requirement of electricity and have effective flame circulation system. Wood Sauna Stoves heats up the rock evenly and warms up sauna pretty quickly. This results in soft heat. A pleasant steam can be created by sprinkling water over hot rock. The Wood burning Sauna Heaters are designed to deliver excellent efficiency ratio, that means more heat and less wood consumed.

Saunas in Finland always had a strong significance and social importance, especially along county side. The quality of heat from Wood burning Sauna cannot be matched with any other type of sauna heaters. The efficient design of sauna and convection vents allows sauna stoves to heat up quickly. Wood sauna comes with heavy duty steel fire box and cast iron gate that is surely to endure many years of traditional sauna enjoyment.