Stefan Gates Food Factory

26th June 2012

Stefan Gates, the whizz-bang author of The Extraodinary Cookbook, loves exploring the science behind food. In this series of The Food Factory, Stefan takes on the challenge to reveal the secrets of supermarket food by making his own from scratch. In the first episode, we find out if real tomatoes are used in instant soup and how is orange squash made to create such an intense orangey flavour?

Watch the first episode 'Just Add Water' on BBC iplayer here.

The series first aired on Monday 25th June 2012 and will run each Monday at 7.30pm for 6 episodes.