The smaller the particles of water contained in the steam, the lighter and “easier” is the steam. Ideally we have an option when air is mixed with water on the molecular level. If you can see a white cloud after you poured water on the stone fill, there is no question of “easy” steam – the only thing you are going to get is “boiled ears” and hard breath. Unfortunately, an overwhelming majority of bath stove manufacturers ignore the problem of obtaining “high-quality” steam. As a rule, they concentrate their attention on providing the necessary temperature in the steam room, the speed of warming up, but choose to solve the task of forming steam by boiling the water in tanks and pouring the water on the open stones. The afforded maximum is 200-250°C, because, otherwise, the open stones will overheat the air in the steam room. It’s easy to get a burn from the infrared radiation, but it is impossible to obtain the “light/easy” steam, because for that the evaporating surface (i.e. the stone stove) should be hotter than 300°C, which is unachievable in principle in those stoves that the well-known Finnish brands offer to all. This will of course make the make cheaper but the consequence of this approach will be a sad fact that most owners of such stoves do not have a slightest idea about the Russian banya. And, taking a bath in such conditions, instead of helping their bodies, they only harm it. It is the same as to boil a tank of water in a closed room – you’ll g et nothing but asphyxiation and burns. As a matter of fact, stoves with open stones and stoves with evaporating tanks can create only this type of hardly bearable microclimate in the steam room. When inhaled, the humid air with the temperature higher than that of the human body goes through the nasopharynx, bronchial tubes and the lungs and gets cooler. At the same time, its humidity grows so that when it goes down to the level of the human temperature the humidity reaches 100 % (dew-point temperature), it condensates on the inner surfaces of the respiratory tracts, and first and foremost in the nasopharynx. Depending on the temperature and humidity of the air inhaled, conditions can be created when condensation of the steam occurs not only in the nasopharynx but also in the lungs. And the lungs get filled with condensate, the alveoli are covered with drops of water and sweat. This results in asphyxiation, or oxygen starvation, phenomena, which leads to weakness and sickness, increased heartbeat and stuffiness. The Finnish counterparts mislead the people by selling their masterpieces as stoves for the Russian bath, without being aware (or not willing to do so) of the differences between the Russian bath and the sauna.
Mr. Mironoff did not like this trend on the world market and he united leading designers and heating engineers and crated a stove unprecedented in the world. The stove weighs more than two tonnes, and its reactor weighs more than 700 kg but can be heated to 500°C in less than three hours. The reactor is in a closed thermos, which provides fast warming up and slow cooling, so that even in 24 hours the temperature in the reactor will remain 300°C – it’s quite sufficient to have “easy” steam thus obtained to be available for two days. Due to the patented double wall, the Mironoff stove does not overheat the steam room and sustain the Russian bath mode. No bath expert will rival with you, if you have a Mironoff M3 stove. No bath guru who knows all the rites of airing and heat adding will ever be able to achieve such “easy” steam as in your home steam room. This is a real Russian banya, with the heat of 65°C and humidity of 65 %. Your bunch of birch twigs will never get too dry, and you will always breathe easily.
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