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!
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 - 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.
#2 - Cereal Bars
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/5/2020
Gregg Wallace is in Essex at an enormous cereal bar factory, which produces 400,000 fruit- and nut-packed treats a day.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Gingerbread
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/23/2025
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey are in the festive spirit as they join factory workers in Market Drayton producing gingerbread Santa and reindeer biscuits for Christmas.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Flapjacks
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/2025
Paddy McGuinness visits a factory that makes forty million flapjacks a year. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey learns how oats can benefit gut health, and Ruth Goodman savours the history of the Staffordshire oatcakes and golden syrup.
#10 - Sausage Rolls
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/4/2025
Paddy McGuinness visits a factory in Northern Ireland to learn how they make more than half a million sausage rolls every day. Cherry Healey discovers how black pudding is made, while historian Ruth Goodman reveals how the humble sausage skin gave a surprising lift to a weapon of war.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Sliced Bread
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/7/2025
New presenter Paddy McGuinness makes a nostalgic visit to the Warburtons bread factory in his hometown of Bolton, where he had a Saturday job more than 30 years ago.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Chocolate Seashells
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/22/2024
In this Christmas special, new presenter Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a chocolate factory in Belgium that produces four million chocolate seashells every day.
#15 - Hardback Books
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/28/2025
Paddy McGuinness visits a factory that produces three million books every week. Cherry Healey is learning how an intricate design is printed onto cloth for the hard covers. Meanwhile historian Ruth Goodman uncovers the extraordinary origins of Braille.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Christmas Cards
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/22/2021
Gregg 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#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.
#24 - Diggers
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/29/2021
Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get special access to a factory that makes as many as a hundred iconic yellow diggers every single day.
#25 - Yoghurt
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/2021
Gregg Wallace visits a factory in rural Somerset that produces one million pots of yoghurt every 24 hours, while Cherry Healey helps out with the UK’s biggest blackcurrant harvest.