Bike ride to Manchinbele Dam

After a month of lull period, its time to travel again. This time to Manchinbele dam near big banyan tree. Just 40kms from Bangalore. The short distance compelled us to take bike as transport. As planned, we started around 11:30AM from Silk Board junction and rode towards the mysore road. Barring few hiccups and traffic jams, the journey was smooth and calm. The route is same as one for Big Banyan tree except that you need to go further ahead by 10km from Big Banyan tree.

En route, we stopped at couple of places to have rest. We had snacks and some cold drinks at big banyan tree. It was around 1:30PM we reached beautiful dam site. The first view was so glorious to watch. I took many snaps near this spot. Then we went near the reservoir spot where considerable crowd was present. Fortunately no monkeys here :-). There was considerable amount of water near dam site due to copious pre monsoon rains. Apart from taking snaps of this gorgeous place, I also started Magic Lantern intervalometer to capture some time lapse. Took around 308 shots before crowd started filling the frames.

We left the spot and rode to top of a hill nearby Dam. The look from the spot was breathtaking. My camera was so busy too ;). I even went tuned aperture to f/25 to get massive depth of field of the place. Overall a memorable and soothing visit to beautiful place. The nature was at its best too with lush greenery nearby. We also enjoyed eye catching rural landscape from Mysore road state highway all the way till Dam. We also visited Shanishwara temple nearby Dam area. I personally enjoyed the glorious landscape amidst tough/bad days at work. That tuned my mind to real calmness. The only drawback is the apathy of people who litter the place with alcohol bottles. We could see a lot of crushed alcohol glasses. They can even pose threat to people since the pieces were too sharp.

Here are pictures!

En-Route to Dam

First view of reservoir

The parking place

The Manchinbele Dam

Close up view of Dam

Beautiful Landscape

One more Landscape!

Hills nearby reservoir

Clouds and water

Its raining somewhere there :-)

Reflections

View from top of Hill

Landscape of Reservoir from top of hill

Finally, not to miss this patient lizard which was sitting on rock steadily. It stayed till I changed my camera lens and shot properly ;-). Seemed like he stayed for long time on rock to give me chance to take proper snap (did not run away even if I went close).

Did you finally shoot me?

How to reach:

As stated in Big Banyan tree blog here. From here you need to travel further 10kms. Ask local people who will guide you better. There are lot of humps enroute and the path way is like ghat road. You will enjoy the beautiful nature en-route. The state of road is good barring seldom nasty pot-holes.

Food:

Pack some food yourself or buy some stuff near Big Banyan tree. No shops are available nearby Dam area.

Video time!

Here is the timelapse video and its settings. Thanks to wonderful ML firmware, you do not need any remote timers for time lapses. This time I intentionally left tripod at home town. After visiting the place, I started repenting as not to have left at home. Also the sunny day makes it difficult to expose the sky properly. A GND filter would have helped me here which I did not have. Nevertheless, I placed camera on even part of rock and started intervalometer. There is also video of surrounding areas. As mentioned in previous blogs, it takes lot of time to edit and compose video on relatively old hardware. I will upload sometimes later if I find time ;-)

Music:

Excerpt from Sunset-Beautiful Life (original mix). One of my favorites!

Video Settings:

Video Editor: KDENLIVE under Linux Mint 15
Post processing done: Changed aspect ratio to 16:9
Video + Audio Encoding: MP4 (H.264) @ Variable bit rate 2pass (1080p @ 30fps) + 256 kbps MP3
Number of pictures: 308
Frames per image: 3
Total duration: (3 frames/image)*(308 images) / 30 fps = 30.8seconds

Camera Settings:

Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: 18-55mm kit lens
Focal Length: 18mm
Focus: Manual
Mode: Aperture value (Av)
Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: Auto
ISO: 200
Exposure value: -0.6 (to expose clouds properly)
White balance: Daylight
Picture Style: Landscape
Metering Mode: Center weighted average
Picture interval: 8s
ML firmware version: 2.3
Tripod used: Even surface of rock :-)

Chandram Bhaja Maanasa - Super Moon Sunday

I had just arrived from glorious visit to Manchinbele Dam and immediately recalled the super moon sunday. So grabbed my 70-300mm lens and camera and went upstairs all the way to terrace. Presumably I thought clouds would hamper the super moon shots. However, the moon was high and bright and open too! Not much clouds were hovering around that night so no problem in grabbing the pics ;-). Here is a super moon photo.

If you love carnatic classical music, you can hear Chandram Bhaja Manasa, great Sanskrit composition of Muttaswamy Deekshitar in Asaaveri raaga here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnPmOaKk48s

Few Long exposure trials at Kaup Beach

This is the first time I am experimenting with Long Exposures at any outside location. Earlier some were done nearby house but there were no special subject in picture to look into. This time I took tripod to Kaup beach to shoot some long exposures post 6PM. I reached until 30s beyond which I did not have time to experiment using remote timer. The pictures have come out good but not so professional. I am happy with my first experiment. The main drawback was I did not use remote timer. I used in built timer of camera to release shutter. That added bit jerkiness to some of the images. Also gusty winds also added to camera shake a bit. However, for long exposures, a slight shake means blurry image. May be I require heavier tripod or I should specifically choose low windy day during winter. During my next experiment I will use remote timer. Here are the shots. Some of them have come good but some needs lot of improvements. All the pictures are edited using GIMP under Linux Mint. I do not remember settings. Mostly around f/9 or above and beyond 10s. I believe EXIF data would have been preserved after uploading too! Watch the pictures and enjoy!

This came out good but horizon is bent.Noticed after downloading

Not so happy with sharpness of trees but enjoyed sky!

Finally not to miss this lovely dog. The picture was taken around 2years back and the same dog was present during this day too! Seems to be owned by one of the vendors in beach. I was enjoying churumuri along with monsoon breeze. She came near me dancing and jumping to grab some share :-). But I was busy with shoot and eating. I had to chase her away suspecting she may get attracted towards pole of tripod :D. Finally my mother fed her few churumuri and ice cream which the dog ate happily. Even after that, she was running and roaming around beach area enjoying herself.

All images copyright (c) Nandakumar, all rights reserved.

Car Street photography around Udupi Sri Krishna Mutt

As everyone is aware, vehicles are banned entering car street of Udupi Sri Krishna Mutt. This is one of the advantages for photographers. It is easy to walk around freely and take snaps without having to bother about traffic heck. Earlier, it was difficult to roam around some parts of car street so easily. Now the car street entirely filled with cows :D. They sit very happily enjoying the cool monsoon weather in middle of roads. This is not the first time I am grabbing photos of car street but it is the first time writing blog on this ;-). Car street (Ratha beedi in Kannada) means the path where chariot moves during annual festivals. So technically it should be called as chariot street. I am not sure why car street terminology is prevailing.

It all starts with beautiful Madhva Sarovara nearby Mutt also the stack of woods used to cook food for Bhojane Shaale (Lunch Home). It is the place where pilgrims are served with free meals. Also the well painted front portion of Mutt was looking very good. Here are some pictures.

MADHVA SAROVARA

UDUPI SRI KRISHNA MUTT

WOODEN CARVINGS ON CHARIOT

Next is the scene of cows. This cow seemed to be pleading for food from pilgrims. Finally people fed it with bananas which it ate happily before moving away. It is really enjoying to see their expressions :-). Here is picture.

BUY ME SOMETHING PLEASE :-)

The repainted kanaka gopura.

KANAKA GOPURA

Next we went to our usual grocery shop where pigeons were picking fallen rice from ground. I caught some of them.

PIGEON

This is one interesting part. Whenever I see the Anateshwara temple, I remeber Anantheshwara temple of Madhur nearby Kasargod. Both have similar architecture.

ANANTESHWARA TEMPLE

Finally the vehicle free car street. The cat seemed to be suffering from illness or feeling lethargic in monsoon weather? Apparently it seemed ill to me.

CAR STREET

CALM CAT

Sunset - Beautiful Life

Just before monsoon began, we went to see beautiful Kaup beach. We are not sure whether we could visit this place in next 3 months or so. The beach roaring with full enthusiasm. It was like the huge waves welcoming monsoon season. The roaring sound can be even heard far away till our house which is 5kms from beach. It was fearful as well as beautiful to watch roaring sea and high waves (which was like Tsunami waves :-D).

This time I took tripod along with my camera to capture some wave movements with long exposure. I did some trial even with higher 'f' stops too! This was captured with f/22. I was really excited after seeing results :-). That came out really well. Even my father appreciated ;-). Photographers believe that the great shot we take is in our backyard. For me it was only 5kms from backyard ;-). This was different sort of experiment I did for first time. The beach, lighthouse, rocks, sun all perfectly composed (boasting myself!). I was really thrilled with depth of field in the image. My favourite part was sun and sky! Hope you too will enjoy the image ;-)

KAUP BEACH SUNSET

Whenever I see Sunset, I remember beautiful remix of Sunset - Beautiful Life by Vol Deeman. What a great masterpiece! This is the only link I found which has the music: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=105511932800432

and not to forget the equally good original version of Sunset - Beautiful Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6flAL68ePMk

Do not miss both the musics, they are really fantastic

Settings:

Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: 18-55mm Kit lens
Mode: Manual
Focal Length: 18mm
Focus: Auto
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 100
White Balance: Auto
Picture Style: Landscape
Metering mode: Center Weighted Average
Tripod Used: Yes
Flash Used: No

Image Copyright (c) Nandakumar, all rights reserved. If you want to share for non commercial purpose, make sure you provide suitable credits.

Moon Shot :-)

Finally I shot some moon pictures. Of them this is the one ;-). Bit lazy to upload other images. It is difficult to find clear skies with too many clouds hovering. I took this shot immediately when sky momentarily was clear (atleast nearby moon area). Since the moon covered few area in the frame, I had to use spot metering to make camera evaluate accordingly. The image was cropped and rescaled using GIMP. I am really amazed by the quality of Tamaron lens even with so much zoom. I can see moon so clearly and how about you ;-). The lens has great Image Stabilization too. Enjoy the lunar image!

Settings:

Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: Tamaron 70-300mm VC USD lens
Mode: Manual
Focal Length: 300mm
Focus: Auto
Shutter Speed: 1/80s
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 100
White Balance: Auto
Picture Style: User Defined 1 (Set to maximum sharpness)
Metering mode: Spot
Tripod Used: No
Flash Used: No

Time Lapse Video - 4 [Dusk to dark with clouds and city lights]

After a long time here is one more time lapse blog. So a different try on a blazing windy day! The monsoon is about to begin and it is time to capture motion of clouds again with time lapse. This time it is dusk to dark with moving clouds and lighting city! Once again the Magic Lantern Intervalometer used for timelapse.

Here were settings. I let camera to choose shutter speed. I chose Auto White Balance since lighting was changing so much. Yes, thats not correct; Will experiment with constant WB next time (Initially thought of Tungsten WB but dropped it).

Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: 18-55mm kit lens
Focal Length: 18mm
Mode: Aperture value (Av)
Aperture: f/8
Shutter speed: Auto
ISO: 100
Exposure Value: -0.6
Metering: Center weighted average
White Balance: Auto
Picture style: Landscape
Flash: No Flash
Focus: Manual
Picture Intervals: 8s, 40s, 70s
Tripod used: Long painting stand ;-)
ML Firmware version:  2.3

I did shoot some Moon photos 2 days back did not fall back to normal setting. Initially some pictures were taken with spot metering :-(. Fortunately I spotted the mistake pretty much early and then the stage was set to capture TimeLapse. The major problem was wind. However the camera withstood it. There was long metal stand which was used for painting purpose. I placed camera on top of it[again forgot to bring tripod from native :-(] and started ML intervalometer. Everything worked fine until, day became darker. The camera shutter could not converge early and consequently could not sync up with intervalometer timer. Hence in middle, I had to increase the inetrvalometer delay from 8s to 40s and later 70s (Hence slight unnoticeable misalignment ;-) also effect of AWB is seen. Please bear with it!). The capture was taken from 6PM to 8PM. It gave me enthusiasm in midst of worst working days. I also enjoyed the pre-monsoon breeze along with camera shoot

Finally the composed video! As always composed in KDENLIVE under Linux. Since first part (before I changed interval) was taken at less intervals, I split video into two parts. One is fast part and second is slow part and finally merged into single video so that pace remained same. The frame rate for fast part was around 2frames/image while slow part was 4frames/image Watch & enjoy and comment for any improvements.

After my experiment was done, I looked into ML documentation. They also have FPS override feature to cater long exposure images during time lapse! Wow! I will try out after looking into documentation in detail. For now this is the one ;-)

Music: Excerpt from Rank1-Airwave (Electica remix). One of my favorites :-). What an amazing musical magic from Finland musician valtttu . Hear the full song here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vue4ReLd1nE

A brief visit to Teerthahalli, Chibbalagudde and Shringeri

03 May 2013,

Finally time to visit some places in Malnad region! I had to attend friend's marriage on this day and it was pre-planned visit to Teerthahalli and Sringeri. Surprisingly we visited one more place called Chibbalagudde unplanned :-) (Read blog post further to see how we ended up to that place). It was around 4AM we reached Teerthahalli and the lodge was nearby bus stop. The marriage hall was near Tunga River bridge ;-). Nice place to take some photos. However due to summer, not much water in river. But nice place to enjoy landscape with considerable amount of water. Around 9:30AM after finishing breakfast we went for a short visit to bridge.

We took some snaps near by river basin and also ventured into river. The bridge also has danger level marking for monitoring during monsoon season. I took many snaps here are few.

Bridge over Tunga River

Tunga River Basin

Landscape of Tunga River basin

After spending some time here, we went back to marriage hall. There was a petty shop near by. I wanted to buy a gift envelope which I could get it from the shop. A colleague of groom also was with me. So I had nice company. In the shop we met beautiful little girl and hungry cow :D. I guess little girl was daughter of some construction worker. She was buying some snacks from shop. Also we fed cow with bananas. Some pictures!

Little girl!

Hungry Cow!

Friend who was with me asked shop owner if we could see good places near by. The owner [who was knowing Tulu ;-)] pointed out to Chibbalagudde Siddhivinayak temple. He also guided that there is bus around 10AM which we could take and after pooja in temple the bus would be ready to return back to Teerthahalli. We were really excited and took that 10AM bus to Chibbalagudde. Its name was Gurushakti Travels. The temple is around 9kms from Teerthahalli town. The way is like ghat section with curvy and up/down roads. We enjoyed the beautiful malnad region along the journey whilst hot-humid weather. We had friendship with bus conductor who was courteous to us and guided us to alight at right stop. He also mentioned that he had worked in Udupi-Mangalore region too!

It was around 10:20AM we reached the temple. A simple but beautiful temple. The main attraction here is fishes in Tunga River! The Tunga River also flows here. People feed fish here as an offering. The house near by temple sell rice,puffed rice to feed to fishes. We went to banks of Tunga River which was really cool. There are benches too to enjoy cool weather under trees and nearby water. The fishes were rushing to grab puffed rice :-). Someone was quoting that due to these fishes, the water is so clean here and also water is always clean where you find many fishes. This place is declared as fishing free zone by fisheries department of Karnataka. Really the water was so cool, fresh and sweet. We had 3 glasses of cool water nearby temple ;-). After enjoying near the banks of river, we returned back to temple. The deity is udbhava ganapathy i.e. naturally arose. At around 11AM, the Mahapooje concludes. Exactly around 11:20AM the same bus returned with same conductor ;-). Again we had nice time with conductor and he reduced price of ticket too on return, as a signal of gesture. We shook hands with him when we got down but forgot to ask his name :-(. Here are some pictures!

Siddhi Vinayak Temple, Chibbalagudde

Cool Tunga River Basin

One More view!

Rushing Fishes (Enlarge and view)

Temple Premises

Temple Mythology

Cool and sweet drinking water!

This was really candid visit and we enjoyed the cool sheds nearby Tunga river. It was like natural AC. We thanked shop owner for guiding us to nice place. At marriage place, we had lunch around 1:10PM and reached the lodge. There was a bus destined to Sringeri around 1:30PM. We had to rush immediately since next bus was only around 3:15PM. Fortunately we got seat too! Sringeri is around 60kms from Teerthahalli. We enjoyed again beautiful malnad region en-route [except for 30 minutes when I had brief nap ;-)]. It takes 2 hours to reach Sringeri due to frequent stoppages and hilly route.

It was 3:30PM when we reached Sringeri bus stop. One has to walk for 10 mins or take an auto to reach temple. Even though it was Friday, there was not much crowd. The temple was closed at that time. It was scheduled to open at 4PM. For small amount of time we wandered around temple premises and also Tunga river. I took snaps also. The main temple is where the deity Sharadadevi resides. There is also one temple nearby which is old architecture and preserved by archaeological department. This has been declared as protected monument. Inside this temple you can find idols of deities shiva, parvathi and ganapathy. They were very well decorated. Once Sharada temple was opened, we had full hearted darshan of deity Sri Sharada. The deity was very well decorated and we had ample time to see her. Few minutes after, my friend left for his hometown since it was only 2 hrs journey for him. Even for me it was hardly 4 hour journey but I refrained from traveling since I had to leave again next week. Free afternoon and evening meals are served in temple. Here are pictures!

Sri Sharada Temple, Sringeri

Tunga River, Sringeri

Not sure, I guess Yagashaale

Preserved monument

Close up view

After 5PM, I went to a place which was maintained my Sringeri Math authorities. There were some centers maintained by Math authorities and variety of trees. One of them was NagaSampige tree which was smelling too good :-). I took many snaps nearby the area. They also foster cows and elephants, however public is not allowed to visit them. There are also vedic centers for students of Math. Overall nice place to roam around and enjoy with nature. After sometime I returned back to temple premises. In middle of bridge I took some sunset snaps also. Here are pictures!

En-route to centers maintained by Math

Fragrance of Nagasampige Tree!

Beautiful Tunga River in midst of Rain Forest

Sunset from bridge

In temple premises, I had some compliments from elderly women showing appreciation for visiting temple. She taught me never to lose faith in God. After some time, I left to bus stop and boarded 10PM bus to Bangalore. I wanted to stay back and visit Horanaadu next day. Finally I decided to visit the place along with my parents.

No videos this time but a trial HDR of Sringeri Math. Please view full size to feel it ;-)

HDR!

This is 3 exposure bracketed HDR created using Magic Lantern Firmware for Canon cameras. The people movement has mis-aligned them in the composed image. The images were put together in Luminance HDR and slightly edited with GIMP.

My camera was in M mode instead of Av but software makes sure that it varies shutter speeds but maintains constant DOF and ISO. Fatal operator in Luminance HDR did most of work except I manually increased saturation a bit.

ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ ಬಜ್ಜಿ

ನನ್ನ ಅಚ್ಚು ಮೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಬಜ್ಜಿ ಇದು :-). ಇದನ್ನು ಅನ್ನಕ್ಕೆ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲದೆ, ದೋಸೆ, ಇಡ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಚಪಾತಿ ಜೊತೆ ಕೂಡ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು. ಇದನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಸಮಯ ಬೇಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ನಾನು ಮಾಡುವ ವಿಧಾನವನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ [ಅಮ್ಮ ಹೇಳಿಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು :-)].

ಬೇಕಾಗುವ ಸಾಮಾಗ್ರಿಗಳು:

೧) ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ - ೧ ಸಾಕು
೨) ತುರಿದ ತೆಂಗಿನಕಾಯಿ (ಬೇಕಾಗುವಷ್ಟು), ಒಣ ಹುಣಸೆ ಹಣ್ಣು, ಸಣ್ಣ ಬೆಲ್ಲದ ತುಂಡು, ಚಿಟಿಕೆ ಅರಶಿನ ಪುಡಿ
೩) ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ ಸಾಮಾನುಗಳು (ಘಾಟಿ ಮೆಣಸು, ಕೊತ್ತಂಬರಿ, ಉದ್ದಿನ ಬೇಳೆ)
೪) ತೆಂಗಿನೆಣ್ಣೆ
೫) ೧ ಹಸಿಮೆಣಸು, ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಕರಿಬೇವು ಸೊಪ್ಪು

ಮೊದಲು ಪಾತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿಯನ್ನು ಸಣ್ಣಗೆ ತುಂಡರಿಸಿ ಇಡಿ(ತುಂಬಾ ಸಣ್ಣಗೆ ಅಲ್ಲ!). ಅದನ್ನು ತೊಳೆದು ನಂತರ ಬೇಕಾಗುವಷ್ಟು ನೀರು ಸೇರಿಸಿ. ನಂತರ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಹುಣಸೆ ಹಣ್ಣು, ಅರಿಶಿನ, ಬೆಲ್ಲ ಸೇರಿಸಿ, ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿಯ ಮಿಶ್ರಣವನ್ನು ಬೇಯಿಸಿ. ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ ಮೆದುವಾಗುವವರೆಗೂ ಬೇಯಿಸಬೇಕು (ಸುಮಾರು ೧೫ ನಿಮಿಷ ತಗುಲಬಹುದು). ಬೇಯುತ್ತಿರುವಾಗಲೇ, ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಗೆ ತಯಾರಿ ನಡೆಸಿ. ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ ಪಾತ್ರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಮಾರು ೨ ಚಮಚ ತೆಂಗಿನೆಣ್ಣೆ ಸುರಿಯಿರಿ ನಂತರ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಬರೆದಂತೆ ಸಾಮಗ್ರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿ. ಉದ್ದಿನ ಬೇಳೆ ಕೆಂಪಾಗುವವರೆಗು ಕರಿಯಿರಿ.

ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ ಬೆಂದ ನಂತರ ಮಿಶ್ರಣವನ್ನು ಆರಲು ಬಿಡಿ. ತಣ್ಣಗಾದ ನಂತರ ಮಿಕ್ಸಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತುರಿದ ತೆಂಗಿನಕಾಯಿ, ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ, ಬೇಕಾಗುವಷ್ಟು ಉಪ್ಪು ಮತ್ತು ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ರುಬ್ಬಿ. ನಂತರ ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಹಸಿ ಮೆಣಸು ಮತ್ತು ಕರಿಬೇವು ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಮಿಶ್ರಣ ಸಣ್ಣಗಾಗುವವರೆಗೆ ರುಬ್ಬಿ. ಇಷ್ಟಾದ ನಂತರ ರುಚಿಯಾದ ಬಜ್ಜಿ ತಯಾರು :). ಇದನ್ನು ಅನ್ನಕ್ಕೆ ಕಲಸಿ ತಿನ್ನಿ (ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ತೆಂಗಿನೆಣ್ಣೆ ಜೊತೆ). ಇಲ್ಲವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊಸರನ್ನದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕೂಡ ಬಳಸಬಹುದು.

ಕೆಲವು ಗಮನದಲ್ಲಿಡಬೇಕಾದ ಅಂಶಗಳು

೧) ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ ಬೇಯಿಸುವಾಗ ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟೇ ನೀರು ಸೇರಿಸಿ. ಇಲ್ಲವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಜ್ಜಿ ತುಂಬಾ ನೀರಾಗುವುದು.
೨) ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ ಬೇಯಿಸಿದ ನಂತರ ನೀರನ್ನು ಚೆಲ್ಲಬೇಡಿ. ಅದೇ ನೀರನ್ನು ಬಜ್ಜಿ ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಬೇಕು.
೩) ಸಣ್ಣ ತುಂಡಿನ ಬೆಲ್ಲವನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿ. ಇಲ್ಲವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಜ್ಜಿ ಸಿಹಿಯಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ! ಹಾಗೆ ಹಸಿ ಮೆಣಸು ಕೂಡ ಸಣ್ಣ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಸಿ.
೪) ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ ತೆಂಗಿನ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯದ್ದು ಆದರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು. ಅದರ ರುಚಿಯೇ ಬೇರೆ ;-)