I was puzzled when the husband announced he was going to burp the house. I asked if he thought it would need a diaper change, too. “You know, burp the house,” he said with an air of disbelief. I ...

"House burping" is the latest thing cluttering people's feeds: short clips of people flinging open every window and door, announcing they're "burping" their home to get rid of stale, germ-filled air.

Oh, it's been cold this winter. So open a window. In Germany, they called that luften, and it's found fans in the U.S. who call it house burping. Annette Baran is with the Goethe-Institut and joins us ...

The German practice of lüften, airing out your house, is becoming popular in the U.S. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Annette Baran from the Goethe Institute, and her husband Robert, about embracing ...

In the last few weeks, an unfamiliar German term may have surfaced on your social media feeds. “Lüften” roughly translates to “ventilate” or “airing out” and involves just that — opening windows in ...

Airing out your house has become a trend on social media, labeled by American wellness influencers as "house burping. But the origins of this practice go way back: "lüften" is the German tradition of ...

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