Food Factory
Upcoming episodes
Jan 7th
400a
From Candy To A Baby
FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Learn the age-old technique that packs the pistachio punch into every bite of baklava; watch as high-tech machines create 150 pounds of candy buttons per hour; a single batch of organic baby food fills 28,000 gourmet pouches; and, while feta cheese starts with a truckload of fresh sheep’s milk, its origins date back to ancient Greece.
Jan 7th
430a
Ice Cup Of Tea
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: A special machine was developed to put the chunks in Cherry Garcia ice cream; a computer-controlled recipe ensures the perfect blend of Earl Grey tea; a single batch of tapenade fills 15,000 jars; and, a fast-paced machine churns out 500 tutti-frutti lollipops every minute.
Jan 7th
500a
Get Fruity
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: 200 million pieces of Nitwitz candy are produced every year; so many popchips are made every year that they could circle the earth three times; nearly five million chocolaty Mighty Malts roll off the assembly line every day; and, chicken soup is cooked right in the can.
Jan 7th
530a
Halloween Special 1
Two frighteningly delicious special episodes of FOOD FACTORY reveal the story behind some of our all-time favourite Halloween treats: ten million Molasses Kisses roll off the assembly line every year; it takes five days to make the ghoulish gumballs that look just like human eyeballs; green Zombie Bar chocolates feature a creepy crunch and blood red message; and, every Halloween, 20,000 Granny Smith apples become sinfully scary colossal candy apples.
Jan 8th
400a
Halloween Special 2
Two frighteningly delicious special episodes of FOOD FACTORY reveal the story behind some of our all-time favourite Halloween treats: Every Bloody Skulls candy starts life in powdered form; like magic, cacao beans are transformed into milk chocolate Witch bars; bat cookies are a buttery blood-thirsty treat; and, spooky marshmallow lollipops are hand-decorated to give each one its own personality.
Jan 8th
430a
Nuts About Brittle
FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Wafer-thin peanut brittle is first cooked in a ‘savage fire mixer’; 100,000 pigs-in-a-blanket roll off the assembly line every day; in a small shop open 24/7, 12,000 Montreal-style bagels are hand-crafted daily; and, it takes 48 hours to produce every hand-made piece of Indian jalebi.
Jan 8th
500a
Snow and Ice
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: A machine called the ‘chunker’ helps put the magic in every pint of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream; a specially designed spinning nozzle puts the twist in every chocolate mint stick; 250 bushels of Extreme Beans are sweetly spiced and pickled every day; and, every batch of snowball cookies contains a bucketful of secret crumble.
Jan 8th
530a
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.
Jan 9th
400a
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.
Jan 9th
430a
Fantastic Flavours
From raw materials to finished products, FOOD FACTORY goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are made: Super-sour Warheads candies contain as much malic acid as allowed by law; find out how veggies are turned into faux meat; every batch of maple bacon chocolate pods starts with two kilograms of crispy bacon; and, in order to make tons of sauerkraut, you’ll need massive tanks that hold 225,000 heads of cabbage.