Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
Jan 8th
400a
Halloween Special 2
Two frighteningly delicious special episodes of FOOD FACTORY reveal the story behind some of our all-time favourite Halloween treats: Every Bloody Skulls candy starts life in powdered form; like magic, cacao beans are transformed into milk chocolate Witch bars; bat cookies are a buttery blood-thirsty treat; and, spooky marshmallow lollipops are hand-decorated to give each one its own personality.
Jan 8th
430a
Nuts About Brittle
FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Wafer-thin peanut brittle is first cooked in a ‘savage fire mixer’; 100,000 pigs-in-a-blanket roll off the assembly line every day; in a small shop open 24/7, 12,000 Montreal-style bagels are hand-crafted daily; and, it takes 48 hours to produce every hand-made piece of Indian jalebi.
Jan 8th
500a
Snow and Ice
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: A machine called the ‘chunker’ helps put the magic in every pint of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream; a specially designed spinning nozzle puts the twist in every chocolate mint stick; 250 bushels of Extreme Beans are sweetly spiced and pickled every day; and, every batch of snowball cookies contains a bucketful of secret crumble.
Jan 8th
530a
A Chocolate Orange
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: A classic Canadian candy, 700 million Chicken Bones have been produced since 1885; a single batch of Pastel de Nata yields nearly 4,000 tantalizing tarts; only the largest garlic cloves are coated with olive oil and roasted to perfection; and, it takes ingenuity and a major assembly line to create break-apart chocolate oranges.
Jan 9th
400a
Sweet and Savoury
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Mini Clark Bars are showered by a waterfall of chocolate; 11,000 kilograms of spuds are cooked every hour to make deviled egg potato salad; the dough for puff pastry cheese bites is punctured to prevent them from exploding in your oven; and, potato chip chocolate bars combine two surprising snacks in one delicious treat.
Jan 9th
430a
Fantastic Flavours
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Super-sour Warheads candies contain as much malic acid as allowed by law; find out how veggies are turned into faux meat; every batch of maple bacon chocolate pods starts with two kilograms of crispy bacon; and, in order to make tons of sauerkraut, you’ll need massive tanks that hold 225,000 heads of cabbage.
Jan 9th
500a
In A Pickle
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: You’ll need gallons of brine and up to 50 days to create the perfect pickle; if Fizzies drink tablets get wet too soon the entire factory could foam up; maple cream chocolates combine cocoa beans from Africa with Canadian maple syrup; and, every single bliss ball passes through a heavenly waterfall of chocolate.
Jan 9th
530a
Give It A Whirl
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Every jumbo lollipop is hand-twisted to give it its signature shape; Chinese hot and sour soup has been a crowd pleaser for more than 600 years; 13,000 hedgehog chocolates can be poured in an hour; and, seven million scallops are lovingly hand-wrapped in bacon every year.
Jan 10th
400a
Berry Berry Tasty
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Raspberry jellies leap through a shower of candy seeds to receive their finishing touch; every piece of crab Rangoon is hand-wrapped and fried to perfection; the key ingredient in cranberry pecan oat clusters is love; and, it takes tons of pressure to transform sugar-free powder into tiny yet powerful mints.
Jan 10th
430a
Fries With A Twist
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: On their 90-minute trip to becoming curly fries, truckloads of potatoes enjoy a steam bath and a ride through a top-secret cutter; it takes 200,000 kilograms of cream cheese to frost half a million red velvet cakes a year; 50,000 vegetable pot pies are assembled and baked daily; and, Mitchell Sweets are marshmallow squares covered in fresh gooey caramel.