I don’t have them. They look beautiful especially when filled with fresh produce, but whatever you decide, make sure your bins are removeable and easily cleaned. Room temperature veg can go bad quickly. In fact, before you decide what to buy, you might get a better handle whether to buy these if you review an article on which veg need refrigeration.

Yea...no. Refrigeration is a beautiful thing -- it keeps food fresh longer. Some things should be stored outside the fridge, of course, but I wouldn't want any odors wafting out of my drawers, and you'd probably have to clean the things out constantly because wayward broken-off leafs and such = rot.

I used to have those in my first house, a 1930's bungalow with the original cabinetry including the "California cooler" and a zinc-lined drawer bins for flour, sugar, etc. In my current kitchen I have a wicker basket on a shelf that holds root veg - turnips, garlic, onions, shallots, potatoes, carrots, etc. It is handy, but hardly necessary.

There is something about certain veggies not liking being stored with onions. I don't care about my veggies' feeling so I don't recall what it is.

No. Most veggies go in the fridge and my potatoes, onion and garlic go in metal bins in my cool dark pantry. In my previous house we had a cabinet with pull out baskets for onions and potatoes. Was okay but occasionally an onion would go bad and it would smell up the kitchen really bad. I'd rather save my cabinet space for pots, pans etc.

Not veggies but my parents have had a bread box drawer in two kitchens over 35 years and they swear by it.

Putting them in a warm, humid, kitchen, is a nope. Unless you eat that amount in 2-3 days. The decorative bins tend to encourage rot and nothing on earth is a worse smell than a rotten potato or onion. Veg need a plastic lined bin, in the dark, with absorbent material, and each doesn't need to touch the other, unless you keep them at 40 degrees and coated with lime. AKA root cellar conditions.

The veggies that can store well in kitchen environment don't store as well in the closed environment of drawers. Like you can keep tomatoes on the counter, but once you start piling them up in the closed environment of a drawer, they decline quicker. There's other problems too with mixing veggies and fruits and off gassing causing ripening speed and rotting issues. Or humidity issues.

There is also the issue that most of the drawers are like those the OP shows. Either difficult to pull the drawer to clean, or the drawer itself isn't too suitable to be cleaned.

And I know folks keep their houses clean but... open food behind closed doors invites vermin to the kitchen. It's wonderful for fruit flies.

Most of that stuff should be refrigerated.

For the stuff that isn't, that amount of any single food item is just asking for food waste. Unless you live way out in rural America and only shop once a month, or you run a full time catering business, who needs that much of anything??

Shopping weekly for dinners for my family, I rarely buy more than 2 of any vegetable. Given the storage requirements for them (separating potatoes, onions, tomatoes etc), I can't imagine anyone being able to use those baskets efficiently/effectively.

I had room to hang one of those 3 basket food storage hangers in the pantry in my last house and I loved that. In this house my pantry is tiny so I put a wall mounted 3 basket shelf up. It doesn't store 5 pounds of potatoes but it does store our weekly grocery haul just fine.

So I guess evaluate your food storage needs and (more important) your food waste. If you eat potatoes with every meal maybe plan storage for them. But almost no one I know cooks enough to warrant that amount of fresh food storage. Other issues mentioned below aside.

Those mostly exist in kitchens that do not cook and have plastic fruit and vegetables in them. Real food isn't compatible.

No. Solid no.

Do you really keep that many fresh veggies on a typical week? I'm sure you've had a tomato go back /leak all over the countertop -- or a potato go bad (so smelly).

I'd 100% rather have dollar-store plastic bins to store my non-refrigerated items in a pantry.