Is a Blast Freezer Compulsary?

[sakbeth]

I plan to start my own Italian ice business, i will be making my own italian ice flavours.I was making a list of the equipment needed, and some people say a blast freezer is compulsory to obtain the necessary consistency.A blast freezer happens to be very expensive equipment and my production is such that il be serving the ices in my shop.My question: is a blast freezer really necessary to justify the extra expenditure, or can i get the job done with normal freezers?

[sakbeth]

Sorry if i dint introduce myself in the above post, that was very rude of me.

Namaste, i am a small time entrepreneur from India where Italian ice is an unknown entity.And i have no prior knowledge in the ice cream industry which actually doesn't help, so any advice/suggestion would be gratefully accepted.