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?

Last Updated: 2/17/2025Network: BBC OneStatus: Continuing

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#1 - 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.

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6.00

4 votes

#2 - 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.

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6.47

17 votes

#3 - 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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6.60

5 votes

#4 - 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.

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6.67

6 votes

#5 - 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.

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6.71

7 votes

#6 - 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.

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6.75

12 votes

#7 - 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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6.75

4 votes

#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.

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6.77

13 votes

#9 - 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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6.85

13 votes

#10 - 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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6.86

7 votes

#11 - 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.

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7.00

15 votes

#12 - 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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7.00

10 votes

#13 - 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.

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7.07

14 votes

#14 - 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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7.08

12 votes

#15 - 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.

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7.18

17 votes

#16 - 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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7.21

14 votes

#17 - 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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7.23

13 votes

#18 - 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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7.25

8 votes

#19 - Ice Cream

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

Gregg visits a factory that churns out 50,000 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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7.25

12 votes

#20 - 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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7.25

8 votes

#21 - Tortilla Chips

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

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

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7.25

16 votes

#22 - 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.

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7.28

18 votes

#23 - 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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7.28

18 votes

#24 - 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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7.28

18 votes

#25 - 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.

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