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: 5/2/2024Network: BBC TwoStatus: Continuing
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Crumpets
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6.14
14 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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Bath Bombs
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6.67
12 votes

#2 - 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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Christmas Cards
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6.67
9 votes

#3 - 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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Paint and Wallpaper
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6.78
9 votes

#4 - 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.

Sofas
star
6.78
9 votes

#5 - 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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6.80
10 votes

#6 - 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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Diggers
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6.82
11 votes

#7 - 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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Ice Cream
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6.86
7 votes

#8 - 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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Tortilla Chips
star
6.86
7 votes

#9 - 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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Stuffed Pasta
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6.92
12 votes

#10 - 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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Vegan Sausages
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6.92
12 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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Yorkshire Puddings
star
7.00
15 votes

#12 - 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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Vacuums
star
7.00
4 votes

#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.

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Mugs
star
7.00
11 votes

#14 - 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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Chairs
star
7.00
6 votes

#15 - Chairs

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/12/2022

Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire, an area associated with furniture making since the 19th century. We Brits spend a staggering £300 million pounds each week on furniture, and Gregg is following the production of one of this factory’s best sellers, the Windsor chair. Starting life as ash trees from European woodlands, they're cut, drilled, steamed, curved and sanded until they're ready for delivery to shops and homes. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey investigates how sitting too much could be very bad for our health, and she helps to manage a sustainable woodland at the Rushmore Estate in Wiltshire. And historian Ruth Goodman discovers how utility furniture made during the Blitz is still influencing the designs we buy today, as well as learning how a humble British carpenter went on to make the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold.

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Yoghurt
star
7.07
14 votes

#16 - 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.

Carpets
star
7.10
10 votes

#17 - 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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Mints
star
7.13
8 votes

#18 - 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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Jelly Beans
star
7.14
14 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
7.15
13 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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Leather Boots
star
7.15
13 votes

#21 - 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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Pork Pies
star
7.17
12 votes

#22 - 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.

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Socks
star
7.17
12 votes

#23 - 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
star
7.21
14 votes

#24 - 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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Trains
star
7.22
9 votes

#25 - 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.

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