Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
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.
Apr 17th
500a
Fishing for Spuds
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Discover why Triple ‘C’ cheesecake is a chocolate lover’s fantasy; witness a massive menagerie of soon-to-be animal crackers stampeding through a giant tunnel oven; watch as spaghetti-like strands of dough become perfectly crispy sweet potato fries; and, combined with its 2000-year history, tofu’s bland reputation is getting an overhaul with a gourmet version that’s anything but.
Apr 17th
530a
Crepe Escape
From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Up to 70 million, picture-perfect Hershey’s Kisses are produced daily; a crepini is the sweet fusion of the French crepe with the Russian blini; there’s a sisterhood behind the gummy candies that look just like rainforest frogs; and, every year, top-of-the-line vanilla extract is made by the tanker-load.
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.