The BEST episodes of Inside the Factory
Every episode of Inside the Factory ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Inside the Factory!
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey hit factory floors across Britain for a snoop around their supersized production lines. What are the secrets behind our supermarket staples?
#1 - Buses
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/8/2022
Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Ruth Goodman learns about London’s earliest double-deckers.
#2 - Jeans
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/2024
Gregg Wallace visits two factories in Italy and Wales to learn how denim cloth is made and then transformed into one of the world's most popular items of clothing - jeans.
#3 - Jelly Beans
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/2024
Gregg Wallace visits a jelly beans factory in Dublin to reveal the astonishing processes used to make ten million of these colourful little sweets every day.
#4 - Yorkshire Puddings
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/2023
Gregg Wallace steps inside a huge factory in Hull to learn how Aunt Bessie’s produces a staggering 500 million yorkshire puddings every year.
#5 - Mints
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/2023
Gregg visits a factory that churns out 32 million mints per day. Cherry Healey visits the largest sugar beet factory in Europe, and Ruth Goodman explores minty mouthwash marketing.
#6 - Rice Pudding
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/2023
Gregg Wallace explores the Ambrosia factory in Lifton, Devon, to reveal how it makes up to 360,000 rice puddings every single day.
#7 - Vegan Sausages
Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/25/2023
Gregg visits a factory that churns out up to 90,000 vegan sausages a day, while Ruth Goodman uncovers the green shoots of the vegetarian movement in Britain.
#8 - Crumpets
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/18/2023
Gregg Wallace visits a factory making 432 million crumpets every year. Cherry Healey learns the science of making batter for pancakes, and Ruth Goodman reveals how crumpets got their bubbles.
#9 - Pork Pies
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/11/2023
Gregg Wallace explores the Vale of Mowbray pork pie factory, which began making pork pies in 1928. Cherry Healey reveals hacks for the perfect vegan shortcrust pastry.
#10 - Jaffa Cakes
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/2023
Gregg Wallace visits a factory that churns out 1.4 billion Jaffa Cakes a year, while Cherry Healey is in the city responsible for growing the fruit that gives these cakes their name.
#11 - Stuffed Pasta
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/16/2024
Gregg Wallace visits a food factory in Hertfordshire that produces 500 million parcels of stuffed pasta every year.
#12 - Trains
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/1/2022
Gregg Wallace accesses huge factories that use extraordinary engineering processes to make our most iconic vehicle.
#13 - Vacuums
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/16/2022
Gregg Wallace visits a huge vacuum cleaner factory in the heart of Somerset and follows their biggest seller, the Henry vacuum cleaner in bright red.
#14 - Ice Cream
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/9/2022
Gregg visits a factory that churns out 50,000 litres of dairy ice cream every day, while Cherry Healey enlists an ice hockey team to test the best methods of stopping brain freeze.
#15 - Mugs
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/2/2022
Gregg visits the Denby factory in Derbyshire. Brits drink 195 million mugs of tea and coffee every day, so Gregg is following production of one of the factory’s best sellers, the Halo Heritage mug.
#16 - Tortilla Chips
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/26/2022
Gregg Wallace visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe, while Cherry Healey takes on the hottest chilli in the world and Ruth Goodman reveals how the Elizabethans treated their ruff collars.
#17 - Leather Boots
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/19/2022
Gregg Wallace visits a boot 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.
#18 - Chairs
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/12/2022
Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey investigates how sitting too much could be very bad for our health.
#19 - Malt Loaf
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/2022
Gregg Wallace visits the largest malt loaf factory in the world, encountering a production line of massive dough mixing, mind-boggling tin filling and intensely hot baking.
#20 - Cheese Curls
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2025
Paddy McGuinness visits a factory to explore the surprising process of turning potato starch into 500 million packs of Quavers cheese curls every year.
#21 - Lawnmowers
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/2026
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey enjoy a summertime visit to a factory in Hertfordshire that produces 15,000 lawnmowers every year.
#22 - Breakfast Cereal
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/2026
Paddy McGuinness visits a huge factory in north Wales that churns out an incredible 120 million boxes of breakfast cereal a year.
#23 - Throat Lozenges
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/2026
Paddy McGuinness visits a medicine factory in Nottingham that’s helping to tackle the nation’s colds and flu, producing 230 million tablets and lozenges every single week.
#24 - Oven Chips
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/2026
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a factory near Scarborough that produces an incredible 80 million chips every single day.
#25 - Jammy Biscuits
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/2026
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a factory in south Wales that produces a whopping 4.4 billion biscuits a year.