Inside the Chocolate Factory

Synopsis

Enter ‘The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia’, a major deviation from the previous three iterations of slow TV on SBS. Instead of physical journeys across land and water, this time we’re following the journey of Cadbury’s Easter eggs and bunnies — from the sugarcane fields of Mackay in north Queensland to a dairy farm in Natone in northwest Tasmania and then to Cadbury’s factories in Hobart and Melbourne, where viewers will witness in all its decadence the Willy Wonka-inspired chocolate-making process.

In sum, viewers will witness the seven main stages required to make chocolate — the sugarcane harvest; the sugar mill; the dairy farm; the milk plant; the crumb factory; the chocolate factory; and finally to market.

From old-fashioned machinery at the sugar mill in Mackay to the hi-tech robotic equipment used at the Cadbury factories, this is a visual treat as we watch 6,014 tonnes of cocoa, 87 million litres of milk and 54 million kilograms of sugar slowly transform into 477 million eggs and 14.6 million bunnies for Easter 2020.

Viewer advice: do not watch without chocolate.

Presented on behalf of Flame Media.

Keywords & Tags

Chocolate, Cadbury, Factory