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: 1/10/2025Network: BBC OneStatus: Continuing

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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8.20

10 votes

#2 - 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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8.15

27 votes

#3 - 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.

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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.

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8.11

9 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Michael Rees, Sam Bailey

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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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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.

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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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7.95

21 votes

#9 - 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.

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7.94

17 votes

#10 - 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.

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7.92

13 votes

#11 - 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.

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7.91

11 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Michael Rees, Phil Stein, Simon Cheuk Pong Lee, Taylor Richardson

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7.89

19 votes

#13 - 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.

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7.89

9 votes

#14 - 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.

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