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Thank you for all of that. Here are air temps for the same period as the humidity above: Thank you. Yes. Still, why does the steam produced from steel feel so much hotter on my skin than that produced from stones (apologies for being so dense)? Is it possible that there is more latent...

The steel ingots I used for testing are half rounds about 4x25cm on the flat side and about 3cm high. I had only 7 of them for the first test. I'm hoping to get a total of 20-30 for a future test. The steam from steel feels much hotter than that from stones. It also seems to stratify more...

We did one with a few steel ingots in place of the top ≈8cm of stones but the difference was only minor as most of the water made it by the ingots to the stones below. It looks like it will require replacement of perhaps 40-50cm of stones with ingots and doing a lattice pattern so that most of...

Thank you all. So… Sauna is 90°c at head height (10cm below ceiling), 72°c at feet and 38°c at the floor. Absolute humidity at all strata is ≈ 25g/m³ (or approx 3-8% RH) - E.G., the brief bit in the line chart above before throwing water on the stones. I throw a ladle of water on the 200°c...

Thank you. So is the steam in a sauna or banya is then always ≈100°c (at sea level)? The line chart in the first post shows humidity over time as it descends down from the ceiling.

I thought that pressure and temp are always connected? If you want higher temp then you must have appropriately higher pressure? Is it possible that the higher pressure is more localized - only where there is hotter steam? So in this image, if the red steam is for example 105°c then the...

This would seem to be at least part of it. I did a quick experiment replacing some of the top stones with steel ingots to see if that made a timing difference but it wasn't very significant (and probably 70% of the water made it to the stones). I may try again with a lot more steel vs stones...

Thank you all. I don't think it's the hot air. I've been in a lot of saunas in my life and a few times every year in saunas that are 120 or higher. I believe the stones are usually about 200 or higher so well above the boiling point of water. The steam in a sauna is always invisible. The only...

The steam in some saunas feels much harsher, hotter, burning or 'biting' than in other saunas. The sauna temp is the same at 90°c, pressure is the same or very similar. The amount and temp of water used is the same or similar. The only obvious difference is that the with the harsher feeling...