Where do you keep fresh fruit?

[JitterbugPerfume]

I keep it on my dining table in a big ole basket. I hate cold apples and oranges!Why do some people keep fruit in the fridge?

[Bertha Venation]

1. In a bowl on the counter, next to the bowl of potatoes and onions.

I hate cold fruit, too. Ew.

[pscot]

2. Refrigeration is good if you buy bulk

Just put out enough for daily use. We've run through 4 cases of Costco oranges this winter. The quality seems to be better than at the local Paymore.

[rox63]

3. Depends on the type of fruit

Apples, oranges, bananas, plums, nectarines, etc, go in a basket on the counter.
Strawberries, blueberries, grapes, etc, go in the fridge.

[geardaddy]

4. I love cold pears.

Yum!

[JBoy]

5. Bananas stay out. Everything else in the fridge unless it has to ripen.

I generally like fruit cold. Even when it's in a pie.

[frogmarch]

6. Bananas on the counter

and all other fruits in the fridge. I prefer room-temperature fruits, but the fridge keeps them fresh longer.

Yesterday I bought some of those green bags that are supposed to help keep fruits from spoiling quickly, and I put the bananas in one of them. They look stupid in the fruit bowl now, but oh, well, if the green bag keeps them edible longer, I'll be happy.

[DebJ]

9. My daughter keeps bananas in the fridge and the rest on the counter.

I had to sing the Chiquita banana song for her.

[frogmarch]

10. in costume, right?

Wait, is this you?

[DebJ]

11. ROFL thanks! n/t

[Boudica the Lyoness]

7. In a fruit basket, in the middle of the table.

It reminds people to eat more of it. I also keep tomatoes at room temp.

[DebJ]

8. In the fridge cause I like cold fruit! n/t

[femmocrat]

12. In a bowl on the counter where it will be seen and eaten.

I have a bowl of grapes in the fridge right now and they are out-of-sight and out-of-mind, it seems.

Strawberries in the fridge, though.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. Interesting factoid - most fruit doesn't improve after picking. Big exception - pears!

You can't let them tree ripen - they go from hard to ripe to overripe quickly.

Pineapples and melons, contrary to what many believe, are no better than the day you buy them (softer, maybe, but not sweeter).

Oh yes, the question - bananas in a bowl, ripening pears close by, everything else in the fridge

[applegrove]

14. I live alone and so don't get through a bag of apples very quickly. Last time I left them out on the

counter, half of them had gone bad.

[MicaelS]

15. In the fridge, except for bananas...

I love cold fruit.

[cyglet]

16. In the fridge

or something will eat it, since I have several pets.

That goes for ANY food.