Is it common to have the fruit bowl on the dining table?

[viiswi]

Hi

Hubby and I have a dilema.

He wants the fruit bowl on the dining table.

I always thought it was common. We currently have it on a side table.

Please be gentle with me.....

x

I usually find Nigella's recipes fine too. Some of them are deliberately vague, admittedly – 'use more if you want' etc – but I also turn to her for basics like crumble mix proportions and how long to roast a chicken.

I've got a Good Housekeeping that rely on for the basics.

If books still exist I'll buy an updated one for my kids!

I keep my fruit on a devilled egg plate, therefore I have avoided the word 'bowl' and can keep it on a coffee table. I am hedging my bets.

What makes it a plate for devilled eggs, if you don't mind me asking?

Devilled egg plates generally have fairly shallow oval-shaped depressions in them so that the eggs can rest in the hollows without being jostled.

just don't rely on her baking recipes as I did some odd things happened

I've had her How to Eat since it first came out - way before her television programmes - it was a book made from her Spectator columns basically - and I find her basic recipes in that pretty OK. Although for baking I go back to Marguerite Patten & my mother's Good Housekeeping book from the mid-50s.

I'm cooking a rare breed shoulder of hogget and need advice on what wine to use in the gravey.dh feels red is best but I'm not sure.please help as I like white.

Ours lives on top of the fridge (not a tall fridge). I never thought about any class implications!

For the love of god how has this run to twelve pages? (In the interest of transparency - ours is on the sideboard and we have a banana hanging thing)

Ours is on a kitchen trolly butcher block type thing. Otherwise I would think sideboard or worktop. Having it on the table would be a pain!

My little butcher block trolly also has two baskets for veg and surplus fruit that doesn’t fit in the bowl. I also have a separate bowl for tomatoes, and a box for onions and garlic. I often have a stunt pineapple, which usually gets eaten after a week or two. In the autumn I sometimes buy some stunt baby squash...nobody ever eats these. 😳

Can’t believe this thread is still going - good to know where everyone stands on the crucial issue of the day. Asked DH what he thought and his contribution is to say that if you have to ask/care whether or not something is common then you probably are and where you keep your fruit bowl makes not one jot of difference.

What’s fruit?

I think if you actually have a dining table there's a limit to how common you can be. When I was a kid all meals were eaten on the coffee table as we didn't have a dining table - no room for one in the kitchen, and certainly no dining room. And what's more, it was the only flat surface in the house - I had to do my homework on there until I got a little desk when I was 8, which I then used till I was 14 and my dad's work was getting rid of their old office furniture out of the HR/accounts department and they offered them for free to anyone who wanted one. Meals continued to be eaten on the coffee table except on Christmas when the fold-up table would be retrieved from the cupboard and set up in the corner of the living room for the duration.

And you try and tell the young people that... they won't believe you

I don't have one, I keep my fruit in the fridge.
I don't have a dining room or kitchen table though which might be why.

Seriously? You are calling poor OP common because she used the word "hubby"? How mean and disrespectful. OP, put you fruit bowl wherever the heck you like and furnish it with however many varieties of fruit you like, because guess what? There is no fruit bowl police, people! It's your HOME not a homage to Nigella or Kelly-fucking-Hoppen. Do we really live in a world where your fruit bowl contents and placing is THAT important? What a time to be alive.....

What’s fruit?

@cosyLulu

mine is on the dining room table. Its a 6 seater (8 if the ends are used) and theres only 4 of us so we just slide it down the table to the unused 2 seats end when we have meals :)

Shut up and eat the bloody fruit. Smash the bowl on your head after.

I have two fruit bowls (not counting the tinned fruit in the larder or the fruit winders in the biscuit tin) because I once read that it was quite wrong to keep bananas alongside other fruit. Both bowls are kept on the kitchen windowsill. Sometimes I like to place a bowl piled high with just one type of fruit (red apples in spring/ summer, or satsumas around Christmas) on the kitchen table in case anyone visits so I can look all harvesty.
Other times the fruit bowls are filled with the odd shrivelled lime, some biros and spare AA batteries.
HTH

I keep it on the table and is used for tobacco and crisps

its from a pound shop but is actually quite nice

@Ohfuckinghellwhatnow

Thank you xx

Ours is on the dining table.

However there is only two of us here so no moving ever needed

I don't have a fruit bowl. I keep fruit in the fridge apart from bananas that tend to live on the kitchen counter next to the butter dish. Maybe buying one would make me eat more fruit. I'd keep it on the dining table out of reach of toddler and baby.