Mironoff M3 is the most practically producible stone stove in the world, usable in continuous and batch operations, was created in a design office in Zelenograd in 2007. With a weight of more than two tonnes, it occupies less than 1 m2. The air boost charging enables heating the inner stone fill up to more than 500°C in three hours. At the same time it cools the stove walls which makes it possible to use it at home or commercially on the area from 4 m2 to 50 m2.
As water is supplied to the closed reactor (the walls of which are 20 mm thick), a mini-explosion takes place, increasing the pressure up to 30 atmospheres at most, which enables obtaining fine-dispersed, overheated steam (up to 500°C) mixed with the air on the molecular level.
It is virtually impossible to achieve this either with direct heating of stones or, the more so, in metallic stoves, so that your steam room will have no equal in terms of steam quality. The Mironoff M3 has combined in itself all the advantages of stone and metallic stoves and, at the same time, has no drawbacks typical to brick and metallic stoves. Main drawbacks of brick stoves: 1. No matter how thoroughly the stove is built, cracks will eventually appear; 2. When the water gets on the brick, a harmful and unpleasant smell is emitted; 3. It takes too much time to kindle the stove – at least five to six hours. Main advantages of brick stoves: 1. High heat capacity, with the stones heated (in the enclosed version) up to 600°C; 2. The steam room is not overheated even during long heating; 3. Pleasant heat radiation from the stove walls. Main drawbacks of metallic stoves: 1. Too small a heat capacity and, as a result, too quick cooling of the stove; 2. Tough, unpleasant heat radiation; 3. It is impossible to heat the stones to the necessary temperature, because otherwise it is impossible to avoid overheating of the steam room. Main advantages of metallic stoves: 1. Fast warming up of the steam room, not more than for two hours; 2. Small area occupied as compared with the brick stove; 3. Simple installation.
One of the most distinguishable features of the Russian bath house is that when you pour water on the heated fill, you don’t see the steam, but just feel it – literally shivering. If you don’t feel the shiver from the steam of your bath, you have to change your stove. There are not many people who have experienced the real ‘easy steam’, so, statistically, many people are not fond of taking a steam bath. However, once someone has tried the real ‘easy steam’ with a bunch of twigs, herbal tea, soap massage, he or she will not imagine real relaxation of the body without the bath.
Just memorize the commonplace truth for you to achieve the ‘easy steam’: Neither of Finnish saunas fits for the Russian steam room – those are mere tools to heat the room up to 130°C. The water tank cannot be mounted near the stove, and the more so on the stone stove, because in this case you’ll not be able to keep the humidity under control, the water will be always overheated, so that you’ll be able to have your bunches of twigs properly wetted, nor to achieve ‘easy steam’. The water tank, located in the steam room two metres away from the stove will get heated up to the optimal temperature of 50°C altogether. The most salubrious steam room should be heated more than 75°C, with the humidity not exceeding 60%. So as to obtain high-quality steam, one should have the stones heated up to 300°C, which is impossible in the ‘open stone stoves’, because in this case the steam room gets overheated. The ceiling in the steam room should vaulted, not more than three metres high, in order to accumulate enough steam. Then it will be easy to take the steam bath and convenient to scoop the steam with the bunch of twigs. The Mironoff M3 stone stove can heat the 700-kg reactor up to 600°C and hold the heat for two days, which means that having warmed up the stone stove on Saturday you can obtain high-quality steam on Sunday. The Mironoff M3 stone stove has a life-time warranty, its combustion part being manufactured from the heat-resistant stainless steel AISI310. On the outside the stove is coated with jadeite in a form of fish scale, without a gram of concrete or glue. The air boost charging, while cooling the outer walls, raises the flame temperature. Thanks to regulated supply of air and fuel, Mironoff M3 can create different bath modes – Russian, Finnish, Turkish etc., and it makes no difference what area your steam room has. It may vary from 4 m2 to 40 m2. The stove may occupy less than one sq.m and weigh more than two tonnes. Unfortunately, the Mironoff M3 stone stove cannot be manufactured en mass due to the labour-intensive character of production. It is necessary to select about a thousand of semiprecious jadeite stones and attach them to the walls of the stone stove, so that the stones match each other which gets more complicated by the fact that jadeite is very hard and sticky. Normally, we manufacture a Mironoff M3 stone stove for at least three months, so you have to be patient but then you may enjoy its salubrious heat all your life long. As times goes by, the Mironoff M3 stone stove will become antique and rise in price every year. Easy steam to you!
FAQ's
Why does the stone stove Mironoff M3 excel all metallic and brick stoves in steam quality? When water falls on the burning hot surface, it results in a mini-explosion, thereby the water turns into the mix of air and drips of water. The higher the temperature of the surface is, the smaller the drips are. The inside filling of the stone stove Mironoff M3 can be heated to the temperature of more that 500°C, and the diameter of the discharge outlet in the reactor is 50 mm, which allows to increase the internal pressure in the reactor up to 30 atm. Under such pressure, air and water are being mixed at the molecular level, and it allows receiving fine-dispersed, superheated “light” steam, which can be received neither in brick nor in metallic stoves.
Why does your stone stove produce more cubes of steam than any other stove? Any explosion, whether it be an explosion of trotyl or instantaneous production of steam, generates equal pressure in all directions. To receive steam in a brick stove, it is necessary to open the stove door and to pour some water upon the hot surface. The water, being poured on the hot stones, turns into steam, but only about 30% of the produced steam goes to the steam room, the rest strikes against the internal walls, goes out through the seams and microcracks in bricks, or in other words, goes up the spout and through the ashpit, destroying the bricks. That is why in bricks stoves it is necessary to use a lot of water. In the stone stove Mironoff M3, the self-contained cast-iron reactor with the only hole with diameter 50 mm is installed; the width of its walls is 20 mm, which allows withstanding of the high pressure. The steam has no other way to go but the steam room, and dozens of cubes of the fine-dispersed steam go right where they are required to go, admiring even the most experienced lovers of bath with steam room.
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