Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
Dec 17th
400a
Miso Hungry
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Making candy-covered almonds is a painstaking 10-hour process; the hole-free Bagelwich is boiled and baked at a rate of 15,000 buns per hour; half a million pounds of S’mores snack mix roll off a California assembly line every year; and, enough miso soup concentrate is produced annually to make over six billion cups of soup.
Dec 17th
430a
Brine Time
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Discover the magic ingredient that keeps chocolate chips from melting away when baked; 1,000 kilograms of nuts are roasted every hour to keep up with the demand for this gourmet snack mix; these pickle slices are called bread and butter chips even though they contain neither; and, a trip to South America was the inspiration for this creamy mushroom soup.
Dec 17th
500a
Pipe Dreams
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: More than half a million squeezable yogurt tubes are produced every day; an Italian grandma ensures every batch of old-school tomato sauce is made with love; a mind-blowing 1,400 fruity chews are cut and wrapped per minute; and, these two entrepreneurs are betting that tofu’s protein-packed cousin tempeh will become number one.
Dec 17th
530a
Easy as Pie
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Rice-A-Roni’s massive assembly line produces six million boxes per week; this speedy Caesar salad kit takes just 30 seconds to prepare; it takes 100,000 Granny Smith apples to make a year’s worth of delectable Whole Foods apple pies; and, nearly 40 million of Glutino’s gluten-free multi-grain English muffins are baked every year.
Dec 18th
400a
Red Hot Delight
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: After a century, Frank’s RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce still turns up the heat; seven million boxes of Shredded Wheat are produced every year; it takes art, culture, and science to create these coffee-chocolate bars with barista flair; and, from an obligatory nap to a robotic assembly line, this family-operated farm has perfected the art of hard-boiling eggs.
Dec 18th
430a
Red Red Vine
Food Factory has the scoop on red licorice candy, spicy Sriracha mayonnaise, flaky Turkish bourekas, and an irresistible cookie that combines dark chocolate with two wafer-thin cookies.
Dec 18th
500a
Elbow Grease
Food Factory cooks up millions of cherry chews, silos of ‘elbow’ macaroni, an all-season cranberry Christmas cheesecake, and a crispy exotic snack called chakri.
Dec 18th
530a
Sweet as Honey
Food Factory has the inside scoop on honey, sprouted wheat bread, a checkerboard cookie, and irresistible chocolate-covered cherries.
Dec 19th
400a
Sunny Side Up
Food Factory has the skinny on a rainbow of candies, ancient rice vinegar, a tangy Thai soup-in-a-bag, and gourmet caramels with a twist.
Dec 19th
430a
Noodling Around
Food Factory has the goods on an old time candy bar, mountains of cannelloni, Vietnamese rice noodles, and diced butternut squash.