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Potato Waffles

Inside the Factory Series 4

Gregg Wallace is in Lowestoft at an enormous frozen food factory, where they produce one million potato waffles a day.

Gregg Wallace is in Lowestoft, at an enormous factory where they produce 450 tonnes of frozen food each day. He follows the production of frozen potato waffles, from the arrival of 25 tonnes of potatoes right through to dispatch. Along the way he discovers how they make a monster amount of mash and marvels at the technology which stamps out a million identical waffles every 24 hours, each weighing 68 grams and exactly 15 mm thick.

Meanwhile Cherry Healey is learning about the differences between waxy and floury potatoes and finding out which spud you should use for which job. Small waxy potatoes are best in salads and boiled, while floury potatoes produce the best mash and roasties. She鈥檚 also asking whether, in these carb-conscious days, we鈥檙e unfairly demonising the potato. At King鈥檚 College London she meets a dietician who runs tests which show that the potato, gram for gram, has more vitamin C than beetroot and carrot and more potassium than banana. Keeping hold of these nutrients isn鈥檛 easy. But Cherry is delighted to discover that skin-on wedges, as long as you go easy on the oil, are a nutritional winner.

Historian Ruth Goodman is myth busting Walter Raleigh鈥檚 connection to potatoes. She discovers that he couldn鈥檛 have brought them back from North America, because there weren鈥檛 potatoes there until 20 years after he died. Instead the credit must go to Spanish explorers and an enterprising French chemist called Parmentier, who popularised this exotic new vegetable. She also meets one of the inventors of the potato waffle, who shows her how Mr Whippy ice creams were the inspiration behind this teatime treat.

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Wed 27 Mar 2019 02:45
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Credits

Presenter Gregg Wallace
Presenter Cherry Healey
Presenter Ruth Goodman
Sound Geraint Lewis
Sound Simon Cross
Sound Rafick Affejee
Director of photography Chris Titus-King
Camera Operator Rhys Plume
Colourist Tim O'Brien
Editor Ian Goff
Dubber Michael Wood
Video Engineer Charlie Perara
Producer Angela O'Leary
Post-Production editor David Blakemore
Post-Production editor Matthew Holland
Runner Richard Coffey
Researcher Daisy Fordham
Production Coordinator Rachel Drew
Production Coordinator Ally Young
Production Manager Samara Friend
Film Editor Jo Wall
Film Editor Victoria Sankey
Director Simon Cheuk Pong Lee
Assistant Producer Rob Myler
Producer Kate Dooley
Producer Phil Stein
Director Phil Stein
Producer Phillip Smith
Executive Producer Jenny Midl
Executive Producer Sanjay Singhal
Director Michael Rees
Series Editor Amanda Lyon

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