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Behind-the-Scenes Videos: Dumpling Factory Tour

"Mommy, where do dumplings come from?" We all reach an age when we want the answers. Last week, Chichi gave us a glimpse of a factory in Brooklyn that churns out half a million dumplings a day. Here is video footage from the tour of both the dumpling crimper and wonton wrapper maker in action. Simply mesmerizing.

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Seriously Asian: Going on a Dumpling Factory Tour

Recently some of the Serious Eats team went on a tour of a noodle and dumpling factory located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Inside, it was kind of how you'd expect a dumpling and noodle factory to look: large machines of dough rollers and dumpling crimpers (more on that in the slideshow). The sweet smell of alkaline egg noodles filled the air while we walked around the facilities in white coats and wader boots. The best part? Grabbing freshly steamed dumplings straight from a giant dumpling conveyor belt! Take a look at the dumplification process.

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Some Food Factory Tours an 'Obscure Casualty of 9/11'

The Vermont Times Argus reports on the discontinuation of the decades-old tradition of tours at the Maple Grove Farms factory. In order to get a "Safety Quality Food" certification, without which major retailers won't carry a product, the St. Johnsbury, Vermont, plant has closed itself off: "Used to be you could bring a Boy Scout troop in and walk right through. That ain't going to happen anymore."

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Tour of Sandro Desii Factory in Catalonia, Spain

Pasta-making machines and single-serve sundaes from Sandro Desii. [Photographs: Sight Unseen] The website Sight Unseen takes us all along on a photo tour of the Sandro Desii factory, where Sandro Desii and his small crew manufactures artisanal pastas and ice cream. The photo essay gives an inside look at the factory, the pasta-making process, and the personality behind the products....

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Video: Churning Artisanal Butter in Maine

You can almost smell and taste the butter in this video from the Boston Globe. It goes inside the Kate's Homemade Butter "factory"* in Maine, where 3,600-pound-capacity butter churns produce some truly delicious butter. (I know it's delicious because I actually have some in my fridge now.) After seeing the massive quantity of butter in this video I want nothing more than a nice short stack of pancakes slathered with the stuff—along with some Vermont maple syrup to complete the New England theme. [Mondo butterage, after the jump!]...

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Inside the Peep Factory, Bethlehem, Penn.

Chicago Tribune The Chicago Tribune goes inside the Just Born Peep factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and comes out with a slideshow of behind-the-scenes chickie production....

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