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| Infrared Sauna |
It takes awhile for us Americans to sweat! That is one of the goals. Our skin is our largest organ. Sweating clears the pores of blockage, and impurities sweat out of you - like even metals and other contaminants. Organs detox. Fat melts. Joints feel limberer. You sleep better.
I shouldn't even put wine in the same title. You're not supposed to have been drinking alcohol and go into the sauna. Also not a good idea to have just eaten a meal either. Better to let it digest first. You do need to keep replenished with lots of liquids. Since I'm drinking water kefir and eating fermented foods and our water is quality well water, I'm taking in plenty of minerals for all the sweating I'm doing!
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| Messy looking wine fermentors next to the sauna |
So why mention wine? Cuz my sauna picture has wine ferment containers sitting next to it. I'm currently fermenting four wines. Two have green grapes I'd frozen from Dawson's yard he picked for me this year. It takes a lot of grapes to make wine, so last year I tried adding some similar grapes a friend gave me to a Pinot Grigio wine kit . . . And it's a refreshing wine. So one of these ferments are with a Sauvingon Blanc kit and the other a Zinfandel Rose. Then I've got my typical Amazon Tuscany Rosso going, and too a chokecherry wine.
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| 3 carboys of rhubarb wine, then plum, skeeter pea, shiraz, and a 3 red blend |
Chokecherries I do grow here, as well as crab apples, rhubarb, and raspberries. I've tried all of them as wines. I don't care for the crab apple wine - they're frozen for applesauce. The raspberry wine is awesome, but I rarely use my raspberries for wine. Rhubarb makes a great wine, and one of my pics shows you three five-gallon carboys of rhubarb from this year. And then chokecherries make a fabulous red wine!
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| Cellar shelves with wine and other ferments |
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| Cellar stairs from kitchen panty trap door |
So yes, among my many ferments I've got going is wine. The room I make it in is the boys' old bedroom. The kids' bathroom (no kids at home anymore) is where all the washing and sterilizing solutions sit - in the bathtub. I want to do posts of the process, since I've taken tons of pictures over the years of all I had hoped to see as I was researching. Once bottled it gets stored in our nice cellar Dawson is finishing off this year. We poured concrete down there just before his wedding this summer. Before, for years, it's just been our root cellar, dubbed "rot" cellar by my daugher-in-law. He made great stairs this summer and some shelves (more to come). The cellar is accessed through a trap door in my kitchen pantry. We've gone through two other staircases that rotted. It's staying an even 50 degrees down there and about 60-70% humidity.
4 comments:
Isn’t it a privilege to have an infrared sauna at home? I mean, some people have to go to spas to experience the infrared sauna treatment. Meanwhile, if you have your own sauna spa, you can go in there whenever you feel like detoxifying and relaxing. =)
I clicked on your name Neil - I did mention most of those benefits of the sauna. I've not taken advantage of the chromotherapy with the colored lights since I'm reading. It could be nice to lay down too, but there again I'm reading. I'd read at Amazon, since they sell them too, about the burning of 600+ calories per sauna session. It is a passive cardiovascular workout folks! You feel energized and healthy!
Oh ... and too. I might even use it this winter some to just plain warm up if I'm feeling chilled ;^P
I couldn't agree more with what you said. Sauna treatments offer a lot of benefits to our body, so having it frequently will help us achieve and maintain good health. However, to be sure that you gain back the water that you lost during your stay in the sauna, it’s best to drink a lot of water to keep your body hydrated.
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