Kitchen Gadgets - the Good, Bad and Ugly

I bought an icecream maker - used it about 3 times and gave it away!
Most of the recipes needed cream which I don't buy normally. You couldn't make icecream on the spur of the moment when you'd just picked a load of raspberries because you had to go out to buy cream.

But you can make sorbet, which is better than ice cream, or make a custard with eggs, you don't need cream to make a passable ice cream.