Inside the Factory

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A look at some of the largest factories in Britain.

Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey hit factory floors across Britain for a snoop around their supersized production lines. What are the secrets behind our supermarket staples?

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Gavin Ahern

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Inside the Factory: Series 6: Ice Cream

Ice Cream

BBC Two - Inside the Factory, Series 6, Ice Cream

Gregg visits a factory that churns out 50,000 litres of dairy ice cream every day.

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.

Gregg Wallace visits a family-run factory in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire, which churns out more than 49 tonnes of dairy ice cream every day. Gregg is delighted to learn he’s following the entire production of their one-litre tub of honeycomb flavour.

Cherry Healey heads to an ice rink in Hull with headache expert Dr Fayyaz Ahmed and enlists an ice hockey team to test the best methods of stopping brain freeze. She also goes in search of a non-drip ice lolly and follows the tip-top process of how sprinkles are made.

Meanwhile, historian Ruth Goodman hops on board an ice cream van to find out how soft whip became a favourite on Britain’s streets.

Inside the Factory: Series 6

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In the sixth series, Gregg Wallace visits such places as the world’s biggest cider producer, a factory sewing 1.5 million socks each year and another churning out a million pots of yogurt every day.

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