Inside a Factory that Perfectly Strips Sweetcorn | Food Unwrapped

Kate Quilton wants to know how corn in a can is perfectly stripped from the cob, without losing any of the good bits.

Food Unwrapped Season 7

Our team of intrepid presenters (Jimmy Doherty, Kate Quilton, Matt Tebbut, Helen Lawal, Andi Oliver, Amanda Byram and Briony May Williams) travel the world uncovering unusual, intriguing and surprising secrets behind the food we eat.

[SaltyPirate]

"Corn Stripper" sounds like the main attraction at an Iowa nightclub.

[Backyardmech]

Other corn companies, 🧐 “Write that down! Write that down!”

[IronicSonics]

Thanks you for the interview. How do I leave the building? "Uuh... its aaaa Trade Secrete"

[texca]

The blades are just spring loaded and open and close with the contour of the cob.
I used to rebuild and sharpen the cutting heads..nothing technical or secret there. Just trying to make something really boring sound interesting.

[blairroth]

I never would have thought the capital of sweet corn production would be France. Wondering where the most croissant rolls are made Nebraska?

[brian]

"Strips sweetcorn" lead me to believe there might be a cornstar in this video.

[matthewbyrd]

“How they work is a secret.” got springs inside.

[KirkHMiller]

"Unfortunately we can only show you 20% of the B-roll filmed because pretty much everything inside the factory is a trade secret."

[georgepierce]

In worked in a canning factory 40 years ago and they used the same machines which were very old then. no secret.

[larrybargon]

FYI. A 'factory' produces things from raw minerals. A 'plant' processes things already produced from factories or earth.

[doghouse]

It's simple, that bladed sphincter has a roller that follows the shape of every cob and as it rolls around, the roller prevents the knives from digging in too deep trade ha

[marl]

The "Jolly Green Giant" right inside the front door.... Is this where all the jobs in Le Seur, Minnesota migrated to??

[wbymag]

I was an ammonia refrigeration engineer at a facility in Oregon where we processed and froze about a million pounds of produce each day of the harvest season, much of that being corn. I think it is safe to say we froze half a million pounds of corn per day in our freezers from the beginning until the end of the harvest season.

[witnessingdaily]

I was Literally dying for someone to take a bite of all that corn!!

[larrybarry]

Just a “miniature” ring debarker from the logging industry

[chezman]

This brought back a lot of memories. I worked summers during college for Del Monte at a pea and corn plant. I was in the fields combining peas and in the plant for corn pack. The best jobs were pushing the corn into the conveyor outside and sharpening the cutter head blades.

[Ja_sm_in_i]

Thank you so much I've been searching a lot to find an explanation of these processes :D

[Think_About_It_]

I lived in Iowa. Right off the stalk is the best!!!!

[henrydickerson]

I've seen a similar machine used to strip bark off of logs.

[markstangel]

Says it’s the largest sweet corn processing plant in the world. You may need to check your facts.