How Do They Do It?

- Season 11

(2014)

Parmesan cheese, from grass to your pasta. Keeping airport runways clean and in good repair for your safety. Building a high quality reclining chair with wood, steel, fancy leather and skilled workers.

On this episode of How Do They Do It: Turkish Delight, Silver, Sunscreen.

The process of making Nori Seaweed sheets, from the spore to the packaging. Beer bottles, made from silica sand and scrap, they could last for 15 years. In the battle between surf users and sharks, new technologies are being tested.

Traditional bronze sand casting of the Venice street lamps. The US Coast Guard patrols use radar, forward looking infra red cameras and dropped markers to track ice for shipping. The Chinese art of creating miniature trees called Bonsai.

Making light but tough carbon fibre racing bicycles. Training pilots in the art of Aerobatics to perform safely at airshows. Norway manufacture of oil pumping and oil flow management components.

Bagel manufacture from flour to the breakfast table. Raw rubber to race capable, the making of high performance racing tyres. Making glass castings from silica sand to finished sculpture using traditional techniques.

Rubbish in Venice, by hand and by boat and processed to make electricity. Marino sheepskin turned into boots to keep your feet warm. In Taiwan they process pond algae into Chlorella health supplements.

From rose petal to Turkish Delight for your sweet tooth. Making a silver bar into a hand made strawberry spoon. Mixing a cocktail of chemicals to stop your skin burning in the sun.

From growing flax, through four factories to the final canvas. From Soya bean, to Soya milk, to tofu and then stinky tofu, but not for every one's taste. Recovering, cleaning and refilling beer bottles.

Plastic to molded bee hives, increasing production by 25 percent. Turning steel into a three wheel family carrier that is light on the environment. Combining Kevlar, ceramic and polyethylene to protect our military men.

From the borax mine to your oven, how they make ovenproof glass dishes. Building an ATM strong enough to stop would be thieves. Manufacturing special Kevlar based body shells to make high performance cars as fast as possible.

Starting with spices, many ingredients are stewed in potato produced alcohol to produce a spicy drink. Making kangaroo hides into motorcycle leathers, better their skin than yours. How to clean historic structures without damaging them.

Buliding a 2.5 billion dollar container port in London. Recycling waste plastic bags into new bags to save the worlds oceans. Blowing glass tubes and decorating them into your favourite hand made Christmas baubles and decorations.

How do they make the world's most expensive vinegar? How do they keep divers warm in the freezing ocean? How do they build a plane that can fly upside down?

Iron ore and special processes to make lighter steel for more efficient cars. Shearing sheep is a fast and very precise process if you want a quality product. Layering many materials in a special process to build the ultimate Kite Board.

Soya beans are not just for food products. They can be used to make mattress foam too. Special materials are needed to make the safest airline seats. Space technology is used to ensure the perfect brassier design.

How do they make plasterboard from power station smoke? How do they cast the world's top awards? How do they build a plane that can take off and land almost.

Car windows, from sand, through cutting, grinding, moulding, and bonding with plastic to your car. Powdered pigments, oils, perfume and waxes make the perfect lipstick. If you don't have electric shears then steel hand shears are for you.

Apples, crushed, filtered, fermented and bottled for your Applejack Brandy. Testing different types of aircraft seat to ensure you sit safely on every flight. Paper, plastic, chemicals, copper and steel to make a long lasting battery.

How do they mine nickel to turn into nickels? How do they build the lock gates for canals to allow barges to climb hills? How do they put the bubbles in Taiwan's beloved Bubble Tea.