Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
Jun 13th
400a
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.
Jun 13th
430a
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.
Jun 13th
500a
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.
Jun 13th
530a
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.
Jun 14th
400a
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.
Jun 14th
430a
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.
Jun 14th
500a
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.
Jun 14th
530a
Elbow Grease
Food Factory cooks up millions of cherry chews, silos of ‘elbow’ macaroni, an all-season cranberry Christmas cheesecake, and a crispy exotic snack called chakri.
Jun 14th
1200p
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.
Jun 14th
1230p
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.