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?

Last Updated: 3/18/2026Network: BBC OneStatus: Continuing
Soft Drinks
star
8.44
16 votes

#1 - Soft Drinks

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/16/2018

Gregg Wallace explores Ribena's Gloucestershire factory. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is in the lab figuring out why fizzy drinks are so appealing.

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Bread
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8.21
29 votes

#2 - Bread

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/5/2015

Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman look at the production, science and history of bread in Britain.

Soup
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8.18
11 votes

#3 - Soup

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/21/2020

In Wigan, Gregg Wallace visits an enormous soup factory, which produces two million tins a day.

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Curry
star
8.12
17 votes

#4 - Curry

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/14/2018

Gregg Wallace explores the Nottinghamshire factory that produces 250,000 jars of curry sauce each day. Cherry Healey helps harvest chillies.

Malt Loaf
star
8.10
10 votes

#5 - 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.

Xmas Party Food
star
8.09
22 votes

#6 - Xmas Party Food

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2019

Gregg Wallace is in Nottingham at an enormous party food factory where they produce 200,000 canapes every 24 hours.

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Mattresses
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8.08
24 votes

#7 - Mattresses

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/20/2019

Gregg Wallace is in Leeds at an enormous mattress factory that produces 600 bouncy beds every day. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey learns whether there are benefits to be had from taking an afternoon nap.

Toilet Roll
star
8.06
16 votes

#8 - Toilet Roll

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/24/2018

Gregg Wallace explores the factory that makes 700,000 toilet rolls a day and Cherry Healey gets the bum deal of following a flush through the sewers.

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Fish Fingers
star
8.00
16 votes

#9 - Fish Fingers

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/2/2018

Gregg Wallace explores the Grimsby factory that processes 165 tonnes of fish a week and produces 80,000 cod fish fingers every day.

Cheese
star
8.00
10 votes

#10 - Cheese

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/26/2019

Gregg Wallace is in Gateshead at a cheese factory where they produce 3,000 tonnes of spreadable cheese every year.

Vacuums
star
8.00
6 votes

#11 - 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.

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Pasties
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7.92
13 votes

#12 - Pasties

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/7/2020

Gregg Wallace is in Cornwall at an enormous bakery where they produce 180,000 pasties a day.

Pizza
star
7.91
11 votes

#13 - Pizza

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/5/2019

Gregg Wallace is in Italy at an enormous pizza factory, where they produce 400,000 frozen pizzas each day.

Cereal
star
7.90
21 votes

#14 - Cereal

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/26/2016

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.

Chocolate
star
7.83
23 votes

#15 - Chocolate

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/2015

Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman look at Britain's love of chocolate and visit one of the world's largest chocolate factories in York.

Potato Waffles
star
7.82
11 votes

#16 - Potato Waffles

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/2019

Gregg Wallace is in Lowestoft at an enormous frozen food factory, where they produce one million potato waffles a day.

Coffee
star
7.81
21 votes

#17 - Coffee

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/2018

Gregg Wallace is in Derbyshire at an enormous coffee factory where they produce 175,000 jars of instant coffee every day.

Milk
star
7.79
19 votes

#18 - Milk

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/7/2015

Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman look at Britain's history with milk and visit one of the largest fresh milk processing plants on earth.

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Liqueurs
star
7.78
23 votes

#19 - Liqueurs

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/28/2020

Gregg Wallace is in Ireland at an enormous liqueurs factory that produces 540,000 bottles a day.

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Chairs
star
7.75
8 votes

#20 - 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.

Cherry Bakewells
star
7.75
20 votes

#21 - Cherry Bakewells

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/30/2019

Gregg Wallace is in Stoke-on-Trent at an enormous cherry bakewell factory, where they produce 250,000 of the little tarts a day.

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Pasta
star
7.74
23 votes

#22 - Pasta

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/25/2017

Gregg Wallace is at the world's largest dried pasta factory in Italy, where they produce 150,000 kilometres of spaghetti each day.

Pencils
star
7.73
11 votes

#23 - Pencils

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/19/2019

Gregg Wallace is in Germany at a historic pencil factory where they produce 600,000 writing implements a day.

Trains
star
7.73
11 votes

#24 - 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.

Jaffa Cakes
star
7.71
14 votes

#25 - 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.

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