Anyone got a fruit bowl that isn't a bit shit?

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Just that really. Have a wire fruit bowl to improve air flow to lower fruit so it doesn't go squishy too quickly. But the wire is cutting in to the perfectly ripe pears. Anyone got the perfect solution to this first world problem??

Mine is a big ceramic bowl with a bright painted design of suns on it. I bought it in Sintra, Portugal about 25 years ago and it has survived three house moves. I do use a piece of sort of green breathable matting stuff from Lakeland in the bottom which helps to keep stuff fresh and stops it sweating.

Ooooh @bumblingbovine49 me like.

I know you say you've had it for ages but may I ask where you got it from?

We use a nice glazed ceramic bowl that we bought in Spain. Keep an eye out for fruit that's getting over-ripe and use it quickly. Grapes go on a separate dish so they don't get squashed.

My fruit bowl is a bit of a fancy glass bowl, My late Mum bought it in about 1941, when she was due to get married, and she in later years, used it to make trifles or jelly's in on special days, She gave it to me when I got married in 1967, so has always been my fruit bowl ever since.(bit of a treasure I suppose)

My son,who is now 50, once went to a funfair when he was a youngie, and he won a goldfish at a stall, he came home with the fish, and decided to use the glass fruit bowl for the fish, until he got a proper goldfish bowl later.

I don't put bananas on top of any fruit, as they go off a bit when near other fruit skins etc.

Mine used to be a bowl for floating candles (remember them ), it's my perfect fruit bowl because is wide and shallow, so nothing gets squished at the bottom and forgotten

@TheGirlWhoLived

yes reader, I am that far up my own ass that I have two fruit bowls

We have 3 wooden ones - one for bananas, one for hardy fruit like apples and oranges and a small one for the squishy fruit. Rarely throw fruit away as I tend to stew up the going off fruit to eat with yoghurt.

Thanks all for the excellent replies. Loving the 2 tier fruit bowls, I've never seen those before!

Interestingly (or let's face it, not that interestingly) I always put lemons in the fridge, never the fruit bowl

@chesirecat99

I have these 2. They are quite flat so they don't dig in like wire. The larger one is also big enough that you don't need to stack the fruit so you can see everything and you don't have the weight of the fruit on top pushing the fruit at the bottom into the metal.

This one as a fruit bowl:
www.johnlewis.com/alessi-opus-ornamental-dish-centrepiece/p1939965

This one for citrus by the juicer:
www.johnlewis.com/alessi-mediterraneo-stainless-steel-fruit-basket/p179656

They are a bit nineties though, which is when I was given them

£325-worth of fruit bowls to store your 43p per kilo bananas?

Mostly, I have done away with fruit.

The bowl on the kitchen table as tomatoes, baby courgettes, garlic and an avocado in it.

Fruit is so much trouble, one way and another. With it's unpredictable ripening behaviour, ripen to rot speed, attracting those irritating little flies etc. Basically if it doesn't taste good in a vodka and tonic it is staying in the shop.

Except berries - they live in the fridge.

We only put bananas and tomatoes in it. All other fruit tends to stay more nutrious in the fridge

I have a large flattish 1970's brown art pottery bowl made in West Germany (and highly collectable apparently, which I didn't know when I bought it from a car boot sale for a couple of quid!) and it is great for fruit.

Prior to that we used a glass one - which now doubles as a trifle bowl - and around Christmas time, when we tend to eat more fruit I've got a wicker basket with a handle that looks like a garden trug.

@FartNRoses

Ooooh *@bumblingbovine49* me like.

I know you say you've had it for ages but may I ask where you got it from?

@FartNRoses I bought this about 15 years ago in a homeware store but can't really remember where

I did find something similar on Etsy www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1081702933/vintage-mid-century-folding-wooden?ref=lx_share

I'm pretty certain mine is not vintage but it is probably modelled on something like this

Ours isn't an actual fruit bowl but a huge lacquered bamboo bowl we got in TK Maxx years ago, it's lovely.

Mine is a wibbly, dimply carved piece of natural wood, really heavy. I'll try and find a pic online ....

Did cost about £30 15 years ago but so worth it

OMG @EdgeOfTheSky I didn't look at the prices, I just clicked on the pictures!

I'm fairly sure they were only about £30 when we were given them. TBF, they have lasted decades and are still going strong so that only works at less than a penny per day. The same can't be said for the ubiquitous Juicy Salif that we were given at the same time - that weird spider-like citrus juicer that everyone had.

😆 I just buy a ready cut tub of pineapple. I hate cutting them anyway.

I've got an Alessi cactus one. When my aunty died and we were clearing her house we found it still in its box in a cupboard. I love it! I googled it and realised it was quite a fancy designer thing - nothing in our house is remotely designery but I do genuinely love that fruit bowl.

@NoSquirrels

Nope. They’re all shit, mostly because you must mentally resign yourself to being the only fecker who polices it for manky apples and mouldy lemons. It’s not the bowl’s fault, alas.

This.

For this reason I stopped policing anything, anywhere, long ago. That way lies madness.

We've all got used to wearing odd socks now, too.

@bumblingbovine49 Thanks so much for the link.
I really like the Etsy one too.

We have a fruit plate !!!!

This is mine.....

We've got Alessi and Robert Welch

This is mine - it was my Gran's and I love it. Need to buy some fruit though!

I have one similar to this. I can see everything so nothing rots, and I group the fruit in sections along the platter

I find air flow isn’t a problem with ours. Probably because it’s mainly because spare keys, batteries and old receipts don’t need much air. Handily the fruit is balanced on top of all the detritus that inexplicably ends up in the bowl thus having plenty of free flowing air. Maybe it’s a carefully thought out plan from my family after all.