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.....

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If you have a fruit bowl full stop you are common.

Keep your fruit in the larder or an outside store next to the orchard.

Without reading any of the thread apart from your opening post.

My opinion is put your fruit bowl in the place it's most likely that people will actually pass it and therefore take fruit from the bowl?

There is no point in putting it say in the dining room if noone ever uses/passes it. People think hmm I fancy a snack but wouldn't think ahh il just pop into the dining room but if it was on a table on the way to the kitchen they might go actually il just have this instead.

So the position of a bowl of fruit can indicate how common or otherwise you are? Who knew?
I keep mine on top of the toilet cistern. Or should that be lavatory?

I thought the fact I had fresh fruit on show was good enough in itself?

I only have one table so it can't really go anywhere else!

My fruit mainly lives in the fridge or just sits loose on the countertop (bananas/oranges)

Not sure. We have one, have done ever since we had children.

But we don't like them going flying into the kitchen so have as little reason as possible for them to use to be going into the kitchen. So this is mainly why the fruit bowl is on the dining table, rather than fruit just kept in the kitchen.

Kitchen work top. Of course our dining room table is plenty large enough to accommodate it, but I’d never put it there ....

Don't have one! The dogs would help themselves our fruit lives in the (turned off) rayburn.

Put it where you eat fruit, unless it is for decoration, in which case put it wherever you want.

@trills yes!

Ours is in the kitchen away from little boys who would eat its entire contents if not supervised!

We used to keep it on the kitchen worktop but have had to move it to the dining room table as the puppy (Labrador) can reach the very back of the worktop and was munching his way through the fruit when left unsupervised.

Mine is kept on the kitchen table, in my last house where there was no kitchen table it was on the dining table (in the living room, never had a dining room either).

I don't have a fruit bowl. I keep most of my fruit in a fridge drawer as we like it cold, except the bananas which are kept in a low cupboard (out of sight as I can't stand the smell of them 😂). I used to put out a pretty glass bowl on the side full of oranges and lemons in the summer and shiny red apples in the autumn... until my toddler decided to start using the fruit as projectiles all over the place....Can't have anything pretty around him... sigh 😕

I am as common as muck. I have a basket of bananas on the kitchen island, a glass bowl of apples on the dining room table, another glass bowl of navel oranges on another large table in the family area and a mixed basket of fruit on a kitchen sideboard.

I have a smaller bowl that orbits around for the apples that go soft or don’t taste as sweet - they are for the horses.

Another eho stored fruit in the fridge. Why would you leave it out all the time? Doesn't it go off quicker?

*who stores

We don't really eat fresh fruit, apart from cooking with citrus occasionally we'll have a few bananas and they will linger on the worktop. We have a pot of salt and chilli on the table.

No, but saying hubby is the give away

It's quite retro. My parents have a mixed fruit bowl on their coffee table - they like a piece of fruit after dinner

We have a massive glass bowl of lemons and limes on the kitchen island. We use the odd one, but generally throw them all out and replace them once a week. We are very poncey.

I always thought it was common.

What's common is worrying about it.

I don't have a fruit bowl. I keep fruit in the cupboard. Berries however go in the fridge.

When I had a fruit bowl growing up, it was usually on the kitchen table, not on the dining table. Never put any thought into it until now though really.

Ski40 I know the struggle! Toddlers and pretty things don't mix

Ours is on top of the microwave in the kitchen. We don't have a kitchen big enough for a table, and our dining table's folded 364 days of the year because of lack of space. There's nowhere else to put a fruit bowl.

Ours is on the dining table.

My kitchen is so pokey I don't have counter space let alone a table in there to put it on.

We eat at the table all the time. Never have a need to move it 🤔😕

I don't have a fruit bowl. If I leave it out in bowls every single fruit has small bite marks in it thanks to smallest DC. She does it to veg too. If I don't put stuff out of reach quickly enough when unpacking shopping my broccoli is lightly gnawed.

She's not a toddler, she's 5

Dining table. Sitting on a doily.

A DOILY