DASH Deluxe Electric Air Fryer + Oven

There was a time when you could spend 80 dollars on a kitchen device, and eventually pass it on to your children. I have a blender that my parents bought when I was a kid. I am 52 years old, and am still using that blender. However, the air fryer I bought about 18 months ago has stopped working. The machine cannot recognize that the basket has been inserted, and therefore it won't come on. Which is better than what it was doing last week, when we took the basket out and the machine didn't know it was gone, and just kept right on blowing hot air. Now understand, that for the last 10 months or so we have been running it without that pretty cover on the basket, because simply taking the basket out and putting it in a few hundred times caused the cover to pop off. And you will notice that the knob that you use to set the time is gone too. That broke a few months back. It just popped off in our hands while trying to turn it one day. But at least this was a Dash Air Fryer, and not a Dash Electric Skillet. I bought one of those at the same time I bought this air fryer, and it didn't last six months before it almost caught on fire. Seems the Dash brand name has a problem with longevity, at least with complicated appliances. We also bought a rice cooker from Amazon made by Dash around the same time, and it is still a little champ that gets used multiple times a day. So, this fryer was the little engine that could - until it couldn't. While it worked, it was great. But now that it doesn't work, it gets to pollute a landfill somewhere with its presence. So then, when considering whether of not to purchase this product, take the price of the product and divide it by 18. The resulting number will be the cost per month of usage you will get out of this product. If that cost per month satisfies you, then by all means - press that buy now button. But for the record, the cost per month on that blender my parents bought when I was kid has got to be less than a penny by now.