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BBC – Inside the Factory: Yoghurt (2020)
English | Size: 1.94 GB
Category: Documentary
We eat them for breakfast, pack them in our lunch boxes and enjoy them for dessert; here in the UK we spend ?1.4 billion a year on yogurt pots. Gregg Wallace visits a factory in rural Somerset that produces one million pots of it every 24 hours. He meets the herd of Friesian cows that provide the milk, sees how the milk is processed and has a bacterial culture added [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Socks (2020)
English | Size: 1.94 GB
Category: Documentary
To keep their feet nice and warm, the British spend almost 723 million pounds a year on socks! In the second episode of this new series, Gregg Wallace visits a sock factory in Leicester that produces one and a half million socks annually. This atmospheric factory is a fascinating mix of Wallace and Gromit-style and high-tech machinery, with a close-knit team of highly skilled operators. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Cider (2020)
English | Size: 1.96 GB
Category: DOcumentary
Gregg Wallace visits the biggest cider factory in the world, which produces more than 350 million litres each year. The scale of production blows his mind as at each turn he’s confronted with huge machinery and incredible processes. He visits Birchley Farm in Herefordshire, at the heart of cider country, before heading to the mill at Ledbury to help sort the apples Meanwhile, Cherry Healey explores how the factory is creating new orchards of a sweet apple variety called Scrumptious through the ancient technique of grafting, Historian Ruth Goodman traces a Victorian apple-breeding boom with Dr Annie Gray, recreating one of Queen Victoria’s favourite baked apple desserts. And she learns how it was British scientists and cider makers – not French champagne makers – who were the first to put fizz in a bottle. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Cereal Bars (2020)
English | Size: 1.92 GB
Category: Documentary
Gregg Wallace is in Essex at an enormous cereal bar factory, which produces 400,000 fruit- and nut-packed treats a day. Gregg follows production from the arrival of two tonnes of macadamia nuts all the way through to dispatch. Along the way, he gets hands on with all the ingredients, from nuts to cranberries and sultanas to puffed rice. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Liqueurs (2020)
English | Size: 1.94 GB
Category: Docuemtary
Gregg Wallace is in Ireland at an enormous liqueurs factory that produces 540,000 bottles a day. He follows the production of cream liqueur from the arrival of maize to make Irish whiskey right through to dispatch of the finished liqueur. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Liqueurs (2020)
English | Size: 1.94 GB
Category: Documentary
Gregg Wallace is in Ireland at an enormous liqueurs factory that produces 540,000 bottles a day. He follows the production of cream liqueur from the arrival of maize to make Irish whiskey right through to dispatch of the finished liqueur.
Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is at the plant where 85 per cent of Ireland’s bottles and jars are recycled. They process 500 tonnes every day. Cherry also investigates the science behind aperitifs. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Cereal Bars (2020)
English | Size: 1.92 GB
Category: Documentary
Gregg Wallace is in Essex at an enormous cereal bar factory, which produces 400,000 fruit- and nut-packed treats a day. Gregg follows production from the arrival of two tonnes of macadamia nuts all the way through to dispatch. Along the way, he gets hands on with all the ingredients, from nuts to cranberries and sultanas to puffed rice. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Pasties (2020)
English | Size: 1.93 GB
Category: Documentary
Gregg Wallace is in Cornwall at an enormous bakery where they produce 180,000 Cornish pasties a day. He follows the production of the pastry snacks from the arrival of two tonnes of swedes right through to dispatch. Gregg learns that there are very specific rules to creating a Cornish pasty. They must be made in Cornwall, the filling can only contain onion, potato, swede, beef and some seasoning – and each ingredient must be cooked from raw within the pastry parcel. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Pots and Pans (2020)
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Category: Documentary
Gregg Wallace is in France at an enormous foundry that produces a cast iron pot every five seconds. He follows production of casserole dishes from the arrival of 20 tonnes of crude iron right through to brightly coloured orange pots. Along the way, Gregg tests his mettle by taking a sample of molten iron at 1,550 degrees Celsius. With only a heatproof visor and gloves as protection, he dips a ladle into a bubbling cauldron and pours the white-hot sample into a tiny mould. He also discovers that the coloured enamel they protect their pots with is made from glass. [Read more…]
BBC – Inside the Factory: Soup (2020)
English | Size: 1.92 GB
Category: Documentary