Everyone knows about Russian bathhouse, but not everybody knows that Russian bath has its types. In this video, Andrey Parovar will tell and show about white bath, black bath, and grey bath. He’ll describe their constructive and operation peculiarities, he’ll give priceless advices both to beginning bath lovers and to experienced steamers. The main distinctive feature of white bath in comparison with other bath types is a stove with a chimney in it. During heating, when we are heating it with firewood, all smoke comes out to the chimney, and warmth remains in a cast iron laying on sides; and stones are situated above, so, they provide mild and good steam. Black bath or smoke bath is one of the most ancient baths, which was used by our ancestors not only to wash or to steam bathe, but also to smoke meat, they gave birth in it, as it is absolutely sterile, and put in rest there by washing a body before inhumation or burning. Black bath mainly consists of two rooms, which are dressing room and the bath itself; in the bath’s corner is a hearth with stones on its top; while heating the hearth smoke comes into the room and comes out through a hole in a wall or through a door. This bath should be heated about two or three hours depending on a year season and used firewood. A very important moment in heating black bath is to wait until all firewood burns to its end and to pull out every single piece of charcoal, because carbon monoxide appears during burning, and if you don’t clean all the charcoals and ventilate the room properly, you could get poisoned with carbon monoxide. It is well known, that people die from carbon monoxide. It is important to know how to prepare such bath. In comparison with white bath, black bath is much tougher. Steam is mighty and rough. Grey bath is a combination of white and black bath. This is achieved by cunning technical decisions when a stove is made and installed. Fire and smoke pass through stones heating them, steam is very saturated and fragrant like in black bath.
9 ноя 2020
