Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
Apr 18th
400a
Green with Envy
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: A sheet of molten candy is transformed by hand and machine into tutti-frutti candies; 300,000 spinach potato latkes are flash fried and frozen every day; making gluten-free shirataki noodles requires precision and a magic ingredient; and, these guilt-free crisps pack loads of pinto beans and vegetables into every cheesy bite
Apr 18th
430a
My Cup Runeth Over
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: The recipe for these popular peanut butter cups hasn’t changed in nearly a century; five million roasted vegetable soufflés are baked every year; a former conductor has turned his grandma’s almond cookies into a nearly guilt-free snack; and, find out what it takes to make puttanesca pasta sauce by the barrel.
Apr 18th
500a
Chocolate Under Wraps
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Visit the state-of-the-art factory that produces 1.5 billion chocolate truffles a year; meet the guilt-free muffin that’s as satisfying as it is healthy; retro Hot Tamales are still North America’s number one cinnamon flavored candy; and, layers of buttery dough and tangy cheese are the secret to light and flaky gourmet cheese crisps.
Apr 18th
530a
Cuckoo For Coconuts
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Find out how you can produce 500,000 chocolate bars a day; it takes 35,000 cashew nuts to make a single batch of the fudge-like candy called kaju katli; these crumbly melt-in-your-mouth cookies go by more names than a secret agent; and, this refreshing smoothie combines tropical flair with a host of health benefits.
Apr 18th
1200p
Pop Goes the Cake
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Discover the tantalizing secrets of the ice cream that’s served like a cake; tangy tartar sauce has an ancient story and is perfected daily; it takes slabs of cake and a special machine to make bite-size cake pops; and, Dead Sea salt gives artisanal almonds their signature crunch.
Apr 18th
1230p
Gold Bars
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Caribbean-inspired candy bars take a trip through a chocolate waterfall; it takes 100 kilograms of corn meal to produce a single batch of polenta crisps; every maple-flavoured Danish is packed with a magical filling; and, Alfredo risotto is so popular that more than 25 million boxes of it are produced every year.
Apr 18th
100p
Shaken Not Stirred
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: It takes a river of liquid nitrogen to make instant fruit smoothies; find out how raw beans become luscious almond chocolate bars; paneer is the most popular cheese in southeast Asia and doesn’t melt when it’s cooked; and, wasabi horseradish mustard features a spicy story only science can explain.
Apr 18th
130p
Everyday is Sundae
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: It takes 1.5 million kilograms of strawberry sauce to make a year’s worth of sundae ice cream; hundreds of tacitos are hand-rolled every minute; making marshmallows is a race against time; and, after a massive shredder cuts the vegetables down to size, broccoli slaw is washed twice before hitting the spin cycle.
Apr 18th
200p
Viva Los Churros
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: We spill the beans on an irresistible protein-packed breakfast cereal; a love for soda pop was the inspiration for an artisanal cream soda; the recipe for irresistible vegan mayonnaise came to its creator in a dream; and, a quarter of a million churros are dusted with cinnamon and flash-fried to perfection every day.
Apr 18th
230p
Pasta Straight Up
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Two fun-loving brothers have put an organic spin on the classic cheese twist; millions of bite-size mint chocolate patties roll off the assembly line every day; 200 litres of vodka are used every month to put the zing in a special pasta sauce; and, high-end chili powder contains seven spices from around the world.