Yep, I love this method, too! I had no idea it was called the Taryn Spin... I've been calling it the 'twirly bag' method! rofl Sorry, Taryn, wherever you are!!! And the reverse.. I've been doing the spin for 6 mos, and it never occurred to me to do it with upside down carto to save juice. Awesome when you load up a nice new carto, and discover its dead right out of the box, or to get rid of water after cleaning.
BTW, for all those of you who are (like me!) challenged when it comes to tools and handy dandy holder dealies, I modified this a bit to use just stuff I had around the house. Takes a mini ziplock baggie (or a larger one cut or folded to size and taped), stapler, some semi flexible wire, or plastic zip strips.
I just use a mini ziplock bag, 2 lines of parallel vertical staples about carto and a half width apart on either side of the middle of the baggie. This creates the perfect 'channel' for your carto to go into, plus holds it upright so it doesn't tip onto side while spinning. Punch or cut two holes right below the ziplock line, a little further apart than the staples. I like plastic zip strips, but you could also use any sort of flexible wire or stiff ribbon stuff. String the baggie thru the holes onto your wire or two zipstrips zipped together end to end. Then close the wire or zipstrips so you have a handy dandy little baggie threaded onto a wire loop. That's your bag made... I've been using the same one for 6 mos.
To fill carto, you just take off top condom and white cap, stick it halfway into the baggie (right between your staple lines in its little channel), fill all around the edges with liquid till it stops soaking in easily. Stuff the carto all the way into the baggie. Put your index finger in the big loop of wire you've made. Then wing it/twirl it around your finger for about 5 seconds. Pull the carto out halfway and you'll see how totally dry the filler on top is. You've driven all the liquid into filler with the twirling. Repeat adding liquid along the sides and twirling until liquid doesn't get driven in any more. Done!
I'm so thankful to Taryn, whoever she is, for coming up with this! I've been getting close to double life out of my boge cartos since I started this.
BTW, for all those of you who are (like me!) challenged when it comes to tools and handy dandy holder dealies, I modified this a bit to use just stuff I had around the house. Takes a mini ziplock baggie (or a larger one cut or folded to size and taped), stapler, some semi flexible wire, or plastic zip strips.
I just use a mini ziplock bag, 2 lines of parallel vertical staples about carto and a half width apart on either side of the middle of the baggie. This creates the perfect 'channel' for your carto to go into, plus holds it upright so it doesn't tip onto side while spinning. Punch or cut two holes right below the ziplock line, a little further apart than the staples. I like plastic zip strips, but you could also use any sort of flexible wire or stiff ribbon stuff. String the baggie thru the holes onto your wire or two zipstrips zipped together end to end. Then close the wire or zipstrips so you have a handy dandy little baggie threaded onto a wire loop. That's your bag made... I've been using the same one for 6 mos.
To fill carto, you just take off top condom and white cap, stick it halfway into the baggie (right between your staple lines in its little channel), fill all around the edges with liquid till it stops soaking in easily. Stuff the carto all the way into the baggie. Put your index finger in the big loop of wire you've made. Then wing it/twirl it around your finger for about 5 seconds. Pull the carto out halfway and you'll see how totally dry the filler on top is. You've driven all the liquid into filler with the twirling. Repeat adding liquid along the sides and twirling until liquid doesn't get driven in any more. Done!
I'm so thankful to Taryn, whoever she is, for coming up with this! I've been getting close to double life out of my boge cartos since I started this.
