The WORST episodes of Inside the Factory

Every episode of Inside the Factory ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Inside the Factory!

Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest food factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind food production on an epic scale.

Last Updated: 11/14/2024Network: BBC TwoStatus: Continuing
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Crumpets
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6.38
16 votes

#1 - 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.

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Paint and Wallpaper
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6.75
12 votes

#2 - Paint and Wallpaper

Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/25/2024

Gregg Wallace visits a colourful factory that produces 200,000 litres of paint and 10,000 metres of wallpaper every week.

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Sofas
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6.77
13 votes

#3 - Sofas

Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/18/2024

Gregg Wallace is in West Yorkshire visiting a huge factory that makes more than 5,000 sofas every year. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey learns about the science of light bulbs.

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Chocolate Bars
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6.85
13 votes

#4 - Chocolate Bars

Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/11/2024

Gregg Wallace visits an enormous factory in York to learn how millions of peppermint-flavoured bubbly chocolate bars are produced every year.

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Bath Bombs
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6.93
14 votes

#5 - Bath Bombs

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/28/2024

Gregg Wallace visits the colourful and fragrant Lush factory in Dorset to learn how an astonishing 14 million bath bombs are produced every year.

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Carpets
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7.00
13 votes

#6 - Carpets

Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/4/2024

Gregg Wallace visits a huge carpet factory in Devon to learn how it weaves 46,000 square metres of carpet every year.

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Christmas Cards
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7.00
10 votes

#7 - Christmas Cards

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/22/2021

Gregg Wallace visits the Woodmansterne card factory in in Watford. It’s one of the largest greeting card companies in the UK, a family business sending out 35 million cards a year. He gets stuck into all aspects of the card creation process - from sketching a card design, to creating an aluminium plate for the printing process, to the guillotining of the sheets into cards and the final shipping process, which takes the cards as far afield as Australia and Singapore. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey creates a vegan Christmas feast, and historian Ruth Goodman unwraps the story of the year when Christmas was cancelled.

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Stuffed Pasta
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7.07
15 votes

#8 - 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.

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Diggers
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7.08
12 votes

#9 - Diggers

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/29/2021

Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get special access to the JCB factory in Rocester in Staffordshire, where as many as a hundred iconic yellow diggers are made every single day. Gregg follows the production of their best-known model, the backhoe loader, so-called because it has got a loader shovel on the front and a hoe arm for digging on the back

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Yorkshire Puddings
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7.12
17 votes

#10 - Yorkshire Puddings

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/2023

Gregg Wallace steps inside a huge Yorkshire puddings factory in Hull to learn how Aunt Bessie’s produces a staggering 500 million Yorkshire puddings every year.

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Vegan Sausages
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7.21
14 votes

#11 - 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.

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Socks
star
7.23
13 votes

#12 - Socks

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/2021

In the second episode of the series, Gregg Wallace visits a sock factory in Leicester that produces one and a half million socks annually.

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Stout
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7.24
17 votes

#13 - Stout

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/23/2024

Gregg Wallace visits a huge brewery in Dublin to learn how two million litres of an iconic Irish stout are produced every day.

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Tortilla Chips
star
7.25
8 votes

#14 - Tortilla Chips

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/26/2022

Gregg visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe, while Cherry takes on the hottest chili in the world and Ruth reveals how the Elizabethans treated their ruff collars.

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Yoghurt
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7.25
16 votes

#15 - Yoghurt

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/2021

Gregg Wallace visits a factory in rural Somerset that produces one million pots of it every twenty-four hours, while Cherry Healey helps out with the UK’s biggest blackcurrant harvest.

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Mugs
star
7.25
12 votes

#16 - 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.

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Ice Cream
star
7.25
8 votes

#17 - Ice Cream

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/9/2022

Gregg visits a factory that churns out fifty thousand litres of dairy ice cream every day, while Cherry Healey enlists an ice hockey team to test the best methods of stopping brain freeze.

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Crisps
star
7.29
28 votes

#18 - Crisps

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/2/2016

Gregg Wallace follows 27 tonnes of potatoes from a farm in Hampshire through the largest crisp factory on earth, as they are peeled, sliced and fried to make more than five million packets of crisps every 24 hours. Once the crisps are flavoured, they are put into bags in one of the craziest rooms Gregg has ever seen, with over 100 machines that can fill hundreds of thousands of bags every hour. Greg discovers how each bag is filled with nitrogen to keep the crisps from going stale and how they are distributed all over the UK - and even as far as the Costa del Sol to satisfy the local expats. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey discovers the secrets of perfect crisp potatoes which are special varieties grown exclusively to make crisps, as well the surprising ways that our brain can be tricked into thinking a crisp is much crunchier than it really is. She also finds out how more than a third of savoury snacks consumed in the UK are made from corn and follows the production of Monster Munch, where the factory transforms 96 tonnes of corn into 12 million monster feet every single day. And historian Ruth Goodman investigates who really invented the crisp - was it the Americans, as is often cited, or the British? Ruth cooks up the earliest known recipe for crisps to uncover the truth. She also discovers how crisp wars between crisp manufacturers erupted in the 1960s and how in the 1980s, they tried to woo customers with strange innovations such as hedgehog crisps. Their determination fuelled our demand and today we get through over a half a billion crisps every 24 hours.

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Jelly Beans
star
7.32
19 votes

#19 - 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.

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Rice Pudding
star
7.33
15 votes

#20 - 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.

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Jeans
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7.35
17 votes

#21 - 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.

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Biscuits
star
7.35
17 votes

#22 - Biscuits

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/2017

Gregg Wallace investigates Europe's largest biscuit factory in London, while Cherry Healey looks into the chocolate added to the beloved digestive. Plus, Ruth Goodman examines the link between biscuits and digestion.

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Leather Boots
star
7.36
14 votes

#23 - Leather Boots

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/19/2022

Gregg visits a boot factory in Wollaston, Northamptonshire to follow the production of a pair of Dr. Martens, while Cherry gets to grips with the machines that make shoelaces.

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Mints
star
7.36
11 votes

#24 - Mints

Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/2023

Gregg Wallace visits a factory with a menthol scent. Cherry Healey visits the largest sugar beet factory in Europe, and Ruth Goodman explores minty mouthwash marketing.

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Sausages
star
7.38
16 votes

#25 - Sausages

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/31/2018

Gregg Wallace explores the North Yorkshire factory that produces 625,000 sausages a day. Meanwhile Cherry Healey is at the University of Chester getting the scientific lowdown on getting the best from your banger. Ruth Goodman is investigates how a German bratwurst became top dog.

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