Shaking pickling jar should be done in the following manner. Place jar on a folded napkin. Hold neck with both hands. Shake in Pendulum motion using base as pivote. Never use wet spoons, ladles etc to remove or handle pickle.
Moistures paves way for rotting.
Always press back remaining pickle with a rubber spatula or spoon back making sure under the pickle is fully submerged the oil layer. Now that the winter is slowly receding in most parts of India, and the temperatures are climbing back pushing up the mercury, the pickling season is back. Many of the pickling raw materials like raw mangoes, raw jackfruit, raw papayas, cucmbers, baby bittergourds, carrots, lemons, are or will soon be available in abundance in the markets. So lets try our hands at some more of those tongue tickling pickles. If some ingredients have to be dried in the sun, see that you make the most of the hours when the sun is more bright.