Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
Apr 15th
400a
Six Into Eight
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: More than one and a half billion Sixlets candies are produced every year; it takes 40,000 heads of cabbage to make 400,000 cabbage rolls; sweet and salty popcorn puts a twist on an ancient snack; and, potato skins chips look just like their deli counter counterparts.
Apr 15th
430a
Breakfast In Shred
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: More than eight billion Shreddies have been produced since 1939; every batch of Black Forest cake calls for 12,000 cherries; Alfajor cookies require special one-on-one care; and, find out what it takes to make tzatziki by the tanker full.
Apr 15th
500a
Pasta Master
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Lasagna is painstakingly assembled by both man and machine; a single batch of school-safe brownies makes more than 6,500 chocolaty treats; maple caramelized onions contain a secret spice blend and Canadian maple syrup; and, find out what it takes to make 67 million apple turnovers every year.
Apr 15th
530a
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 16th
400a
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 16th
430a
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 16th
500a
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 16th
530a
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 17th
400a
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.
Apr 17th
430a
Lights, Camera, Popcorn
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Tortilla chips are baked in a tunnel oven before taking a dip in a giant fryer; grandma’s kitchen flavour is baked into 200,000 bite-size coffee cakes every day; vegan mint double chocolate cookies will blow your palate and your mind; and, it takes an entire assembly line to produce the blockbuster convenience of microwaveable popcorn.