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

When I had a big kitchen it was on the counter.Now I have a tiny kitchenI first put it on the dining room table but found that since it was mainly out of site no one ate the fruit so it's now on a small table in the sitting room and gets eaten.

If I put my fruit bowl on our tiny fold out dining table there would be no room for our dinner.

Think you are meant to move it to the side board (where you keep your good china, crystal glasses and silverware) when you set out the table for dinner and replace after clearing.

Fruit bowls on the dinner room table is a bit old fashioned. I guess it depends where your dinning room is and how often its used. Ours is (mostly empty as the fruit is in the fridge) on the kitchen worktop.

I have three bowls on the dresser in the kitchen, one bowl for citrus, one for tomatoes and avocados, one for apples, pears etc. Bananas live at the side of them. If there are grapes, figs, cherries or any other stone-fruit, they live in a separate shallow bowl to mitigate the risk of mouldering escapees.

Ours is on the kitchen table and gets shoved down the bus a bit while we we eat, no hassle at all. Don't give a stuff if it's common, I think it looks nice and I'm sure we wouldn't eat as much fruit if it was all tidied away in the fridge.

@CrackingEggs me too....but I dont have mice eating the fruit, its the dogs here

Dining table so that dd can reach it. I like being able to send her to get her own banana!

Mason jars are only wanky if you are eating mauve coloured overnights oats out of them on the train.

Otherwise they're fine.

It depends. Do you have a stunt pineapple?

If so, dining room table. If not, the bowl is banished to the kitchen.

Fruit is all kept separate, we're well posh.

This is the most hilarious thread ever - marking my place.

Ours is the kitchen on the worktop

What’s with all the dining room dilemma today?

Who can be arsed with dining room arrangements?

I eat fruit every day but I never leave a bowl of anything edible on any table as I couldn't guarantee that puss wouldn't rub her face in it.

Old fashioned rather than common.

Are you a fan of the antimacassar by any chance?

Kitchen with all other food, therefore (depending on space and your kitchen layout) worktop, kitchen table or dresser. We have it on our island now we have one but used to have it on the worktop. The only fruit anyone in this house eats now is bananas and blueberries (which are in the fridge) so it's a pretty sad fruit bowl.

I keep the fruit in the fridge (bananas included) in one of the salad/chiller drawers.

Ours sits in the middle of the coffee table in our living room, we have no room in our kitchen or on our dining table and I find more fruit gets eaten by my children this way than hiding it away in the kitchen. Grapes have their own separate bowl as I find they get lost in a mixed fruit bowl.

Growing ours was in our kitchen but we had a huge kitchen/ diner and lots of counter space.

You can rest easy tonight, FreudianSlurp

My kitchen table (at which we eat every night) houses a mountain of paperwork, a light fitting which needs to be sent back, a pair of slippers (ditto), a pot of paint, some expired gift cards and several magazines, all unread. There isn't space for the fruit bowl, which lives on the dresser instead, next to the Sellotape and an ancient plastic Tinky Winky's hat (a remnant of one of the DC's infancy, which I can't bring myself to part with). Dunno how posh that makes me, though.

Kitchen table. Mind you, that's where we eat so we do have to move it for most meals. If I do the dishing up at the cooker and just hand people full plates, then it's not in the way, but if we put food in dishes for self-serving then there's not enough room so it's moved at table laying time.

I used to have it on the coffee table in the sitting room so dd and her friends could help themselves easily while playing, but now studying and jigsaw making have taken over in there, so it's been in the kitchen for about 5 years.

Mines on the kitchen worktop!

All food should be kept in the kitchen until consumed! According to my old Granny!
It wouldn't worry me where ever other people want to keep it though.

We don’t have a fruit bowl either. When we did, it was full of assorted crap rather than fruit (which lives in the fridge, except bananas). So we got rid of our Lego bits and dead batteries and broken pens bowl.

You use the word "hubby" and you are worried that your fruit bowl makes you look common?

This must be a peak MN through-the-looking-glass moment