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Sauces

Inside the Factory Series 3
Episode 5 of 6

Documentary series. Ruth Goodman investigates the origin of Worcestershire sauce, as told by Mr Lea and Mr Perrins.

Gregg Wallace is in the Netherlands at one of the world's biggest sauce factories. Its annual output is a quarter of a million tonnes of condiments, and more than 50 per cent of this heads to the UK. Our passion for sauces sees us consume 40 million kilos of mayonnaise every year. Gregg follows its production from a farm near Arnhem, where 23,000 free range hens produce the eggs, to the factory, where he is wowed by an egg cracking machine that can separate the yolks and whites from 1,700 eggs a minute. In the mayonnaise factory 'kitchen' he discovers how the delicate process of combining oil and water - known as emulsification - is performed perfectly every time on huge 480 kilo batches.

Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is making the glass jars Gregg needs for his mayonnaise. She is at a vast factory in Maastricht, where a furnace holding 250 tonnes of molten glass has been running continuously for the last 11 years. Cherry is also on the trail of another of our favourite sauces - soy - not in Japan, but south Wales, where a factory churns out bottles and sachets of organic sauce to a 2,000-year-old recipe. And the secret of its taste? A special mould called Koji.

Historian Ruth Goodman discovers how Brits fell in love with mayonnaise. She traces it back to the introduction of the bottled sauce in the 1960s and samples a series of unusual mayonnaise dishes, including the 'frosted party loaf' - a glorified club sandwich covered in mayo and cream cheese. Ruth is also on the trail of Worcestershire sauce and investigates the traditional story of its origin, as told by Mr Lea and Mr Perrins.

59 minutes

Last on

Wed 26 Jun 2019 19:00
主播大秀 Two

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:04

    Take That

    River

  • 00:05

    PNAU

    Chameleon

  • 00:07

    Kygo

    ID

  • 00:08

    Little Mix

    No More Sad Songs

  • 00:11

    Madness

    Mr Apples

  • 00:15

    Bastille

    Send Them Off!

  • 00:24

    Fickle Friends

    Hello Hello

  • 00:24

    Jamie T

    Power Over Men

  • 00:41

    Fickle Friends

    Say No More

  • 00:41

    Alessia Cara

    Scars To Your Beautiful

  • 00:31

    CHVRCHES

    Leave A Trace

  • 00:32

    Coldplay

    Birds

  • 00:36

    Allman Brown

    Dust & Heat

  • 00:47

    Laura Mvula

    Overcome (feat. Nile Rodgers)

  • 00:47

    Birdy

    Keeping Your Head Up

  • 00:57

    Kacy Hill

    Arms Length

  • 00:59

    Paloma Faith

    Freedom (Proms 2014)

    Performer: Paloma Faith. Music Group: Urban Voices Collective. Orchestra: The Guy Barker Orchestra. Conductor: Guy Barker.

Credits

Presenter Gregg Wallace
Presenter Cherry Healey
Presenter Ruth Goodman
Executive Producer Alice Harper
Executive Producer Sanjay Singhal
Series Producer Amanda Lyon
Director Michael Rees
Producer Emma Pound
Production Manager Sally Finigan
Production Company Voltage TV Productions Ltd
Producer Sam Bailey
Director Sam Bailey
Producer Will Aspinall
Director Will Aspinall

Broadcasts

Learn more about the history of the factory and how it has evolved with an interactive from The Open University.

The fascinating stories behind the production of some of our favourite products.