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The Best Episodes of Inside the Factory

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The Best Episodes of Inside the Factory

Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic...

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  1. Background image for Jaffa Cakes
    8.5/10(14 votes)

    #1 - Jaffa Cakes

    S7:E12

    How a factory in Manchester churns out 6 million Jaffa Cakes every single day - 1.4 billion per year. The legal significance of whether Jaffa Cakes are cakes or biscuits.

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Pork Pies
    8.5/10(17 votes)

    #2 - Pork Pies

    S7:E13

    How Vale of Mowbray make pork pies - including 425,000 a week of their 75g snack-sized traditional pie - in Northallerton, Yorkshire. Hacks for the perfect vegan shortcrust pastry. How piccalilli, a pork pie accompaniment, is made. The history of Britain's unusual stargazy pie, and powdered egg during the Second World War.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Stout
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #3 - Stout

    S8:E5

    How Guinness make two million litres of Irish stout every single day. How reservoir water is treated to provide clean drinking water to the people of Dublin, as well as to the stout brewery. How hops are harvested at a farm in Worcestershire. The history of Irish pubs, and how pub games helped the Allies in the Second World War.

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    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Chocolate Bars
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #4 - Chocolate Bars

    S8:E8

    How Nestle make more than eight million bars of chocolate every day in York - the UK's city of chocolate. How a cocoa plant quarantine facility in the Berkshire countryside is preventing a worldwide chocolate shortage. The bitter history of drinking chocolate.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(18 votes)

    #5 - Chairs

    S7:E4

    Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Cherry Healey investigates how sitting too much could be very bad for our health. Historian Ruth Goodman discovers how utility furniture made during the Blitz is still influencing the designs we buy today.

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    Director:Gavin Ahern
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Tortilla Chips
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #6 - Tortilla Chips

    S7:E6

    How the biggest tortilla factory in Europe makes 60,000 tonnes of snacks every year in Coventry, including their UK bestseller: chilli heatwave flavour tortilla chips. Tasting the hottest chilli in the world at the UK's largest chilli farm. The science behind the UK's first compostable crisp packet. How the Elizabethans kept their huge ruff collars standing to attention, and how American popcorn became a box office smash.

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    Director:Gavin Ahern
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Mugs
    8.0/10(17 votes)

    #7 - Mugs

    S7:E7

    How Denby - potterymaker since 1809 - produces one of their best sellers, the Halo Heritage mug, in Derbyshire. The journey starts at the factory's 100-metre-long, 100,000-tonne mound of clay.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.9/10(30 votes)

    #8 - Cereal

    S2:E1

    Gregg Wallace receives a load of corn fresh off the boat from Argentina and follows its journey through the largest breakfast cereal factory in Europe.

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    Director:Chris Parkin
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Crumpets
    7.9/10(17 votes)

    #9 - Crumpets

    S7:E14

    How a factory makes 432 million classic British crumpets every year from a precise combination of ingredients, using some clever chemistry to create their famous 'holey' texture. The science of making the perfect pancake batter. How another British favourite, Eccles cakes, are made in Manchester for shipment all over the world. The history of how crumpets got their rise and eventually their bubbles, and Britain's obsession with toasting baked goods.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Vegan Sausages
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #10 - Vegan Sausages

    S7:E15

    The futuristic process by which Heck churn out up to 90,000 vegan sausages a day in Yorkshire. How Canadian soy beans are transformed into protein-packed tofu. How a vegan superfood of the sea is harvested on the Scottish coast. The history of the vegetarian movement in Britain, and the high price that British sailors paid when deprived of their five a day.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Stuffed Pasta
    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #11 - Stuffed Pasta

    S8:E4

    How Dell Ugo make 500 million stuffed pasta parcels every year in Hertfordshire. How Cromer on the Norfolk coast still use traditional fishing techniques to catch the crab for stuffed pasta. How Italian immigrants in Bedford helped to build Britain. The origins of gluten-free food.

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    7.7/10(35 votes)

    #12 - Crisps

    S2:E2

    Gregg Wallace follows 27 tonnes of potatoes from a farm in Hampshire through the largest crisp factory on earth.

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    Director:Chris Parkin
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Bath Bombs
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #13 - Bath Bombs

    S8:E6

    How Lush produce an astonishing 14 million bath bombs every year in Dorset. How taking a hot bath can provide some of the benefits of exercise. How a lab grows human skin for cosmetic testing. The notion that complex perfumes ward off the plague. How the living conditions of coal miners and their families were transformed by the introduction of communal showers.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Sweets
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #14 - Sweets

    S2:E5

    Gregg Wallace helps to unload a tanker full of sugar from Norfolk and follows it through one of the oldest sweet factories in Britain.

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    Director:Chris Parkin
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Buses
    7.6/10(19 votes)

    #15 - Buses

    S7:E11

    How London's famous red double-decker bus - including a fully electric model - is built in Scarborough, Yorkshire, highlighting the tough laminated heated windscreens and bright red coat of paint. How the turbines at an offshore wind farm convert wind into watts. The history of London's earliest double-deckers and their vital role in the First World War.

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    Director:Michael Rees
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Rice Pudding
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    #16 - Rice Pudding

    S7:E16

    Gregg Wallace explores the Ambrosia factory in Lifton, Devon, to reveal how it makes up to 360,000 rice puddings every single day. How fresh water from the Alps is used to grow more than a million tonnes of rice every year in Italy's Po Valley. The history of school dinners.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Sofas
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Sofas

    S8:E9

    How HSL make more than 5,000 sofas every year in West Yorkshire. The science of light bulbs, to create the perfect environment to snuggle up on the sofa. How foam padding is produced. The history of the sofa. One of the world's most famous sewing machines.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Baked Beans
    7.5/10(28 votes)

    #18 - Baked Beans

    S2:E3

    Gregg Wallace helps to unload 27 tonnes of dried haricot beans and follows them on a journey through the world's largest baked bean factory.

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    Director:Chris Parkin
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Malt Loaf
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #19 - Malt Loaf

    S7:E3

    How the largest malt loaf factory in the world makes the sweet and squidgy cake-cum-bread, a popular teatime treat consumed at the rate of 130 million a year. How a British baking company cooked up the first business computer. How wheat flour was ground the traditional way, until the Victorians' demand for white bread brought about the demise of Britain's iconic windmills.

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Leather Boots
    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #20 - Leather Boots

    S7:E5

    Gregg Wallace visits a bootmaking factory in Wollaston, Northamptonshire to follow the production of a pair of Dr. Martens, while Cherry Healey gets to grips with the machines that make shoelaces.

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    Director:Gavin Ahern
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Yorkshire Puddings
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #21 - Yorkshire Puddings

    S8:E1

    How Aunt Bessie's produce a staggering 500 million Yorkshire puddings every year in Hull. How wheat is tested before it can be milled into flour. How to cook the perfect gravy for a Sunday roast. The history of the roast dinner, and the art of washing up Tudor-style.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Jelly Beans
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #22 - Jelly Beans

    S8:E2

    How Jelly Bean Factory make ten million of their colourful little sweets every day in Dublin. The important role glucose plays in our bodies. How one of the ingredients in jelly beans plays a key role in the production of lipstick. The history of jelly and post-war pick'n'mix.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Jeans
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #23 - Jeans

    S8:E3

    How denim cloth is made, and how Welsh jeans brand Hiut transform it into one of the world's most popular items of clothing - jeans. How zippers are made. How denim is distressed to make a new pair of jeans look old, in environmentally friendly ways. The little-known person who helped shape the design of jeans forever. The history of indigo dye.

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Ice Cream
    7.4/10(12 votes)

    #24 - Ice Cream

    S7:E8

    How a family-run factory in rural Aberdeenshire churns out fifty thousand litres of dairy ice cream every day. How best to stop 'brain freeze.' How sprinkles are made. How ice cream vans made soft whip a favourite on Britain's streets.

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    Director:Gavin Ahern
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Trains
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #25 - Trains

    S7:E10

    How Alstom builds a 187-tonne, five-carriage electric train on their 84-acre site in Derby. How the train's aluminium is made at the UK's last remaining smelter in Scotland. How tunnel boring machines are digging ten miles through the hills for the new HS2 line. The history of the UK’s first electric train - Brighton's seafront tourist train, still used today - and how that technology went on to be used in underground transportation all over the world.

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    Director:Michael Rees
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Jaffa Cakes" is the best rated episode of "Inside the Factory". It scored 8.5/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Duncan Thompson and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/4/2023. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pork Pies".