Sauna engineering, forest ingenuity, genuine Finnish inventions and sports the rest of the world doesn’t quite get. We check where every invention really comes from – and we label the jokes as jokes.
The sauna wasn’t invented in Finland – but Finnish sauna culture and the sauna-stove industry are in a league of…
The Finnish Reality Check
The Finnish Reality Check · Commentary
So the robot can clean the kitchen. Lovely. But does it know to keep the sauna door shut – and never to dry wet wool socks on the sauna stove?
Editorial commentary – not a test result.
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