Vanilla Ice-cream

Should you make your own ice-creams and sorbets? And, if so, do you need to buy an expensive machine to do the job? Five years ago I would not have hesitated in saying yes to both questions but now, in the age of the heavily marketed and widely available Häagen-Dazs (marketed as post-coital) ice-cream and with the wide availability of good sorbets, I am not so sure. If you intend to make and serve ice-creams and sorbets on a regular basis, then I still say buy a machine, but with the pro