We have two fruit bowls. One is an open weave chrome metal and the other is a large, rather flat, glass bowl. I especially like the open weave bowl because that allows for some air flow so that fruit doesn't spoil as quickly.

We have a glass bowl on kitchen table. We eat fresh fruit with every meal. Oranges are ready in this area and all the trees are loaded with this delicious fruit. We buy apples , bananas,pears, strawberries, and blueberries. Glass bowl works for us. Fruit salads work for us on days we aren’t very hungry. Will also eat fresh baked nut bread spread with cream cheese , and pronto, we have a meal.

I use a big ceramic hand thrown pottery bowl. I like it because you can wash it out after the fruit has gone bad.

Be aware that a wooden fruit bowl may have problems. My mother used a rectangular antique wooden dough bowl for holding lots of fruit for her family of seven. I inherited it (love it!) but many, many decades of holding fruit gave the bowl a crack in the bottom. So I don't use it for fruit -- it makes a lovely rustic container for pine cones and artificial greenery during the holidays!

Here is ours.

It sits on the kitchen counter near where we make breakfast, lunch, and snacks, and a few feet away from the dinner prep (I set it on the cooktop for the photo.) It is slightly oval-shaped and double-tiered, so it doesn’t take up too much real estate. It is also near the toaster, so the toaster tongs magnet is convenient. Yes, the toaster has metal sides, but the last one didn’t, so habit keeps the tongs on the basket instead of on the toaster.) If it’s especially full, the bananas can hang over the handle! And of course the errant bread closer clips on (no idea why it‘s there, but there’s often a clip or clothespin or something clipped on).

When I get a box of clementines, I put them in one of these bowls, the Harker CameoWare was my grandmother’s and is somehow perfect for potato salad, and the other bowl was made by a neighbor for our wedding. Once we are down to 2 or 3 clementines, they go into the metal basket.

Nothing special

No bowl, a little 2 tiered bamboo shelf on a metal frame from Ikea.

I rarely have use for one. I store fruit, other than bananas, in one of the crisper drawers in the fridge. Fruits like peaches and pears that need to ripen are put in a brown paper bag and then in the fridge afterwards. I prefer my fruit chilled.

I keep fruit in my fridge. I too like cold fruit. I "process" it when I get home. I wash it,oranges get peeled, cherries get pitted,grapes get pulled off their stems. I put them in one of my pink bowls on the top shelf for easy access. I dont usually buy bananas or apples or anything that oxidizes.

Don't mean to step on your toes, always1stepbehind, but there's quite a variation between a "bowel" and a "bowl": one letter sometimes makes a large difference.

A "bowl" is where one puts the fruit before the eating.

After one puts that food into one's mouth and it goes down red lane into the stomach, it goes into the "bowel", small and large, prior to exiting via one's behind.

So there is something of a connection between them, but they aren't interchangeable.

I have an orange and a banana for breakfast, most mornings. Keep bananas in a rat-proof box in the basement for coolness and if they're still some green, bring one up the day before to sit in the kitchen window.

Oranges, apples, tomatoes, etc. In the crisper in the fridge.

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I mostly display paper mâché fruit

LOL Joyful....I remember making a conscious effort to correct my "bowels" but apparently I wasn't thorough enough.

Longaberger basket.

I have many but we are in the middle of moving, not sure where they are. Here is a big one.

Since both fruit and house flies seem to lurk by the door, just waiting for the moment that it is opened so they can dash inside, making sure to whiz by at eye level so that I helplessly see them do it -- I do not keep fruit out on the counter ever.

Fruit flies do not attack paper mâché fruit.

I don't know why fruit flies want to come into my house - there is plenty of fruit outside for them, but maybe they are trying to avoid the hummingbirds, which like to eat them.

I dont keep too much fruit out in the open. For one, bananas don’t like being close to other fruits that off-gas, such as apples, and will make them turn brown more quickly. So I keep apples stored in the refrigerator, along with ripe peaches, blueberries, strawberries, etc.

I just got through dehydrating about three dozen apples, and so I will not have to keep fresh apples in the open. I've noticed that we do not seem to have fruit flies in Cathedral City, but maybe I have just been lucky. There are citrus trees in this neighborhood, including my neighbor's lemon tree, which extends in to my yard and drops lemons around my pool equipment, which I pick up and save.

I harvested a bunch of bananas from my yard in Los Angeles before we left to come here, but it will be a while before they ripen. I think I need to hang the bunch somewhere, so that I can keep an eye on it.

I freeze fruit that I want to use in smoothies, such as melons, berries, mangoes, etc. I used to freeze blueberries that I would then put in the yogurt that I would take to work for my breakfast (with granola, stored separately), and the frozen berries helped keep the yogurt cool. They had defrosted by the time I was ready to eat them.