Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
Mar 20th
400a
Juiced Up
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: The stats on this mammoth Florida orange juice factory will blow your mind; tour the family-run business that produces 2.5 million balls of pizza dough every day; Fruiti Farts candies feature a rainbow of flavours and a personality that’s all their own; and, over a million bite-size cream puffs roll off this California assembly line every day.
Mar 20th
430a
Working for Peanuts
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Skippy has been perfecting its iconic peanut butter recipe since 1933; eggplant Parmesan is made by the truckload in this California facility; a staggering three million bags of shelled pistachios roll off this assembly line every day; and meet the perfect movie-night chocolate bar that’s packed with crunchy tortilla chips and pop-in-your mouth candy.
Mar 20th
500a
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.
Mar 20th
530a
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.
Mar 21st
400a
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.
Mar 21st
430a
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.
Mar 21st
500a
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.
Mar 21st
530a
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.
Mar 21st
1200p
Valentine’s Day
Food Factory celebrates Valentine's Day with sparkling wine, heart-shaped pasta, decadent cheesecake, and the candy ring that's become an engagement tradition.
Mar 21st
1230p
Easter
Food Factory celebrates Easter with carrot-shaped lollipops, deluxe chocolate eggs, adorable marshmallow Peeps, and traditional hot cross buns.