How Jaffa Cakes Are Made
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Business Insider got an inside look at how Jaffa Cakes are made at the McVitie's factory in Stockport, Manchester. We got to see the whole process from start to finish and also learned the answer to the age-old question about Jaffa Cakes, is it a cake or a biscuit?
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How Jaffa Cakes Are Made
A little Jaffa Cake etiquette:
1. Jaffa Cakes are eaten in a continuous stream, one after the other.
2. Once opened, you should keep the packet in your non-dominant hand to allow ease of access.
3. Continue until all the Jaffa Cakes have gone.
4. Do not share your Jaffa Cakes. This reduces the number of Jaffa Cakes you can eat.
5. Always ask others to share their Jaffa Cakes. This increases the number of Jaffa Cakes you can eat.
6. People who do not follow rules 1, 2 and 3 cannot be trusted. Any Jaffa Cakes discarded by these monsters are now fair game.
lmao rule 4 & 5
Very true. But you forgot the many ways to eat a jaffa cake. You must either pick one style and follow through, or change every time another one comes.
@@MysteryGamerGirl07 you are a sicko if you dont eat the edge first
@@brockley5960 I always ate the chocolate off first, then the jelly, then the cake.
@@everythingdibs344 i suppose thats acceptable, atleast you dont eat them whole
Anyone who makes jaffas for a living is a hero in my eyes.
Stoned or not I couldn’t agree more 😂
Same 😁
Hahah
Anyone who works in a food factory is a hero to. Lol but your comments gold. 😂
There delicious
Supermarkets need to take these beauties off the biscuit aisle and give them they’re own dedicated aisle. Forget the whole “is it a biscuit, is it a cake” debate.
@Tiffany Santourian YOU ARE A GENIUS
@Tiffany Santourian aisle 13 ‘biscakes’
@Tiffany Santourian you just solved the biggest dilemma in human history
Cake
Biscuits are hard and crunchy
I remember the orange packet 😥 fuckin shit clear ones now
ahhh...ye good ol' times.
Don’t tell me ur crying over the color of a packet
yea just like the normal brands now. TBH the cheaper ones have caught up well.
Hold up I watch ur videos ayyyy
1st world problems.
“If your nan didn’t give you Jaffa cakes as a kid is she really your nan?”
-Tom Holland
Maryam Tina that’s the only reason I know what Jaffa cakes are
Tammy Cheung SAME!
OMG WHAT AN ICON 😂🙌🏻
the only reason I clicked on the vid😂🤣
THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING THE ENTIRE VIDEO
As a Jaffa cake addict, I approve of this. Jaffas are HEAVEN!
I don't know why people hate them
@@therealbosstopob4l974 who?
I hate dark chocolate but this,is just so nice!
As someone who doesnt know where to get them,I very sadly say I cany relate ;-;
@Joel JinisKalpadikkal then how csn you say me too?
I feel sorry for the jaffa cakes that went all that way just to be thrown off the production for metal detection
not necessarily for metal detection. There are many reasons that a cake could be considered defective and removed from the production line
I love that You feel sorry for a Jaffa cake
haha i was thinking the same thing
I was just about to comment this :(
@@gracebevill 😊😊
This made me smile. There's something so magical about giant industrial cake machines
BICUIT
Ur all saying you've never heard or jaffa cakes cos u don't have them in America but us brits have our iconic snacc
we have them in America! they are just harder to find.
5 minutes for me and I never regret it.
@Space Giraffes same
goldglobeMSP balkan as well!
I live in ireland and i have em
I thought they just popped out of thin air
Wow you early that fast
Hi
Ahhhh
There you are :)
Jaffa cakes soldiers are killed every minute
#cakeslivesmatter
Thin air indeed.
When ur meant to be doing online school but instead watching how Jaffa cakes are made
It’s still educational
I was once an international student in Sheffield, UK. These are so popular, they introduced these as part of a cultural workshop. After that what the instructor was saying is kind of hazy. All I remember is coming out of a chocolate-orange stupor! 😁
my nan and grandad lived on the road opposite the factory, the smell of the factory is amazing and takes me back to my childhood instantly when i smell it.
Use to get the train into Manchester all the time and I agree the smell is class
Haha i went to primary school near by. It always smelled of biscuits
The amount of times I’ve been to the Aldi across the road and you buy pack of Jaffa cakes then you can smell them as soon as you come out
@@cameronhigginbottom2831 i used to work there
Yeah we used to be able to smell the baking from our School field.
Heard about them for the first time this year and it sounded like God himself was tossing them down from the heavens. Cant wait to try.
how were they?
@@creamythroat 1 week and no reply... can safely say the OP has overdosed on them..
@@theSPUDereHD LMAOOOOOOOOO
Just go to the shop not sure about America
Aw man, hate to burst your bubble, but they suck.
The “cake” part is super dry, and the filling has the weirdest texture.
Thank you Yogscast Simon for introducing me to these little delights.
How did I get here
Make sure Simon knows!
it was merely fate
No one knows
The first verified youtuber without 1k in a day.
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I go past this factory every Tuesday on my way to college
The smell is unbelievable...a sweet but savoury smell, it makes u hungry
This is not only made in England but many more countries in Europe. But all I can say is that people REALLY are missing out if they haven't tried this out yet because you could eat like 10 boxes and still feel like you haven't had enough of these 😂 that's how delicious they are😍
You know they’re originally from Scotland, right?
Damla Bahri Damn straight! My mum has limited me to one pack a day and I can’t eat em all in one go but I’ve found a way to cheat that and that is to pretend to eat em with my siblings and just eat em all. My siblings don’t mind.
@@Luciel.680 i know its been a year but that sounds a tad unhealthy no?
@@wuffalo yeah it’s unhealthy but honestly, there’s nothing that isn’t unhealthy in my diet. I’m still alive that’s all that counts
@@Luciel.680 oh jeez. i dont think just being alive is the status you should count on lol. you should probably change up your diet
for anyone that doesn’t know - this factory is next to a main road, and the smell you get as you drive past… 100% 10/10 incredible
Not to worry, all those rejected cakes have been routed straight to my house using the longest conveyor belt in the world!
🤣
...didn't they say there was metal in them?... well anything for a free jaffa cake I guess
Iil sit on the conveyor
@@nomaidens5734 no they said they were defective
These weren’t my favorite snacks once upon a time, but 20yrs later I am craving for them....
In Finland we have those in every store.
SAME I didnt really like them as a kid but now I can dust an entire packet with 0 effort 😬
Takes me back to the Yogscast... those were the days
my daily show in 2012 T-T
Hell yea
I remember when I would watch their videos on their website
Word dude... I'd give anything to be back in the old days not a care in the world playing minecraft all day after school, watching yogscast, and pewdiepie
I was wondering how many comments I'd have to scroll down till I got a reference adpartly not many
I live like 5 mins away from this factory and every now and then you can smell the bakery it smells rlly good
You’re lucky 🤣
Same
Do you ever ask for freebies or the reject stock when you walk past? I would.
I always think the people who make the machines that make the Jaffa cakes deserve a program! Unreal tech
I had a friend who liked Jaffa cakes, he was crazy about them. Unfortunately he left us too soon. Sometimes I buy Jaffa cakes, even if I don't like them that much, just to remember the good old times when he used to share them at work. RIP Mo
So it seems this was recommended to everyone exactly 2 years ago and also right now.
Yep
The lifecycle of UA-cam recommendations
yup.
Yuppp
Yeppo
I find it strangely amusing that there's a room in England that if I fill the machines with flour, eggs, sugar, chocolate and jam
that I will get 60 tons of Jaffa cakes by the next morning
Can you imagine the list of ingredients these would have if they were made in America?!
Vodca
Come on guy. A little sawdust never hurt anyone.
Tons of e numbers would be pumped into them
a little cockroach never hurt anyone
You'll be diabetic after one Jaffa Cake if they were made in America
"Produces 4,000 jaffa cakes a minute". And 3/4 of all them are going into my stomach
Y E S.
Nice user name
I’m an American and these Jaffa cakes are soooooo good!
Jaffa cakes are genius. One of the best foods ever created.
The fact that im eating jaffa cakes while watching this makes it taste so much better
Damn i want the rejects
probably given to the employees
They'd probably have metal in them
There’s places that sell the misshaped ones at £2 for 100 like at farmfoods
@@tylermcqueen9684 not my farmfoods :(
Hey how you doing I’m a social reject
I was waiting for them to answer the question of is it a cake a biscuit the whole time 😂, it was a relief that they said it at the end
The guy literally says cake every other word lol
I don’t think it’s either, it has a different texture to cake and biscuits.
@@bakedbeansontoast487 it’s definitely cake, by definition, there are many different types of cakes, a sponge is a type of cake. The only reason people doubt it is because of the size, as it’s small it’s crispier than normal cake. But if you were to make a giant Jaffa cake, you will discover it’s exactly like a normal sponge cake.
I think it was a court case that settled the debate, in the UK I believe VAT is paid on chocolate biscuits, but not on cakes, the argument was that a biscuit goes soft and soggy when stale, a cake goes hard and dry, Jaffa cakes so the latter, therefore are cakes therefore saving the company a massive VAT bill
@@peddersmeister McVities went to court to prove it's a cake to avoid the VAT.
Really nice process. You can see the refinement in the production process, must have taken a long time to get it so streamlined. I'm especially impressed with the metal scanner as quality control, and the actuator being accurate/fast enough to get rid of the bad ones.
*Imagine working at the factory, and getting a freshly baked batch, whilst its still warm*
Hate to crush your dreams but they go through a cooling machine
Did not see any employees at all.
Great. Now I'm craving Jaffa Cakes.
Full moon, half moon, total eclipse 😂
Don’t you’ll set me off in a minute
It’s sad now the don’t put them in the iconic orange wrapper anymore 🥺
Back in 2012
@here comes the sun ALDI version?
I live in the United States and it took a month for them to arrive from Amazon (pack of 30) I ate them all almost instantly one of the best snacks I’ve ever had. I wish they were sold here
Somewhere Simon Lane cried a single tear.
It is a beautiful sight.
HD version of the Jaffa factory from tekkit
All of you Americans regretting you've never tried them! Feeling smug that I can pop to the shops whenever and get some, they're delicious 😋
Savage
Shut up.
As an Australian, love Jaffa Cakes. But not so much that attitude of yours 😂
We have pims
I don’t even live in England, yet I have had Jaffa cakes... SO GOOD 😋😋😋😋
There is an undercurrent of stress to the way he talks about how much Jaffa cake is made. We make 15000 tons and can barely quell the insatiable gannets of the uk and their lust for Jaffa cakes.
He may be worried about an area 51 type raid by the bingo lot!
4:05 I love how that one cake got yeeted out smoothly
Send this to Simon “Honeydew” Lane of the Yogscast.
The way they're in rows after getting aligned is on a whole new scale of satisfaction
fr
*me living in Stockport*
Oh thats what they make in that massive chocolate factory
When are you planning the first raid?
192 bus memories
@@nicknack9828 I have different 192 memories. Usually involving drunk scals.
I used to take the train to Manchester every day and pass by the McVitie’s factory and the smell would just lift my spirits
My mum used to work at that McVitie's factory in Stockport, she loved it! She didn't bring home as many reject Jaffa Cakes as I would've liked, but then no amount is ever enough. Traces of metal? I'd eat one with a rusty nail in it! 😋
The only reason that I can think of of why I am watching this is because of my upcoming period.
I used to live right near the Stockport mcvities factory.. the smell of the biscuits was amazing 🤤🤤🤤
WHo ever did this edit - its perfect! Speed, sound level, text. Top notch!
I live around the corner from the factory and it smells like heaven everytime you go past
And it all started with a little dream from a little red dwarf and his spaceman friend.
Mate I don’t think I could work there I’d be extremely overweight and pretty sure fired within the 1st month for munching the cakes instead of packing them🤣😂
I don't know if all places do this, but I once saw a documentary on a chocolate factory and they let their workers have the chocolate they make (as much as they want) and after a week they get sick of it so they don't want it anymore...its a good deterrence
My mum's friend used to have a sweet business and she let her kids eat as much as they want so that they wud get sick of it and not sneak sweets haha
@@zak3172 i've heard that too, I think in a Cadbury's documentary.
@@zak3172 they do the same at Mars I've heard
@@zak3172 yeah my mum used to work at thorntons factory and they do it there too, or at least used too
@@zak3172 I used to work at nestle making toffee crisp, after 8 and drifter. You get bored real easy, you don't even see it as a food after a while it's just a product. It's always handy if you forget your lunch that you won't go hungry ha. They had an onsite shop for faulty products we got really cheap, nothing wrong with it either might have just been the mint aero in the normal chocolate packaging.
It was heaven when you got 6 jaffa cakes in the 5 pack for your school lunch. Just beautiful.
The only reason I took up running during lockdown was to eat a pack of Jaffa cakes every day
I literally just had one before I watched this video😂
I watched the video and i ate like 2 packs :))
@@albertgeorgy6827 why 😂
@@M1rr1n becouse i came from work at the time and i was hungry :P
One?
Lol
am sitting here crying as I haven't had Jaffa cakes for nearly two years, as I am currently outside the UK. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I miss eating them so much 💗💗💗
If you are in Poland you have Delicje, its the same thing
I like jaffa cake i cant eat em too jaffa cakes r the only thing that i eat with dark chocolate
@@tomaszrock226 they're even better, they come in so many more flavours than just orange.
Great! Now I have to go out of my way to get a pack of Jaffa cakes 😊
It's great to see something made in Britain for a change!
Incorrect, I see no use of tekkit or presence of Yogscast
I LOVE JAFFA CAKES. Does anyone else eat the chocolate then take the centre of the cake and save it to last? Or is that just me?
I can't believe how many people have never heard about or seen them before !!!
Saaaaame I eat the chocolate then the sponge then I suck the jelly
Just you their to tasty 😋 to do that 🙂.
And to think, Mr J Cakes would never have imagined his humble creation being produced 24/7
I bet he would love to see how much they are enjoyed by people
This thing's better than Mr J Cake's shit lmao
I once lived in the uk for 3 years
God i miss these so much
Wait they didn't descend from heaven on a golden tray
Eating a whole box of Jaffa cakes whilst watching this 😍
There was genuinely a court case about the cake or biscuit debate because they were selling them as biscuits, biscuits don't get taxed but cakes do, the court case found that they were cakes because their definition of a biscuit is if it's left exposed to air it gets softer, but cakes exposed to air get harder, you leave a Jaffa Cake out and it gets hard
I don't understand about leaving a jaffa cake "out"? All our Jaffa cakes are consumed within a few minutes. Who is cruel enough to leave one "out"?
1 jaffa cake fits my mouth perfectly, that's why i never bite it.
I'm not one for Jaffa cakes (not fond of orange jam), but just the same chocolate digestives are bits of heaven. They truly are. 💖
I love the german ones since they are raspberry rather than orange.
Who remembers? Full moon, Half moon, Total eclipse 🌕🌓🌑 🤣
that advert is a classic!🤣🤣🤣
Me!
still do this EVERY time I eat them
@@Sandman0792 I’m the total eclipse 🤣
God tier advertising
How Jaffa Cakes are made:
344K people: Interesting.
770K now
🙃 Well I DID find it interesting. Been eating them since 1969 and never really thought about how they are made.
Now a million views!!!
American here, learned of these when I was 4, got to try them this year, love em its great
I never had a Jaffa cake. 😭
Chef Rafi's Awesome World you're missing out my friend
Huong Vu send us some
Chef Rafi's Awesome World well Americans are missing out!
Chef Rafi's Awesome World they’re AMAZING
Chef Rafi's Awesome World oh my god how dare you! XD you're missing out dude!
Now they’re 10 instead of 12 cakes supposedly to cut obesity....never mind the fact people just buy loads of packs 🤷♂️
dazza944 But in the double packs, there’s only 9 in one row/pack. Absolute ripoff, I have to fill my cupboard with more now
cut obesity my a55 more like so they can charge the same amount for less cakes
Thats a load of horseshit. They use anti-obesity as a nice way to market themselves while they of course simply want to make more money by cutting costs. They know that people HATE it when prices go up. So what they do instead of putting fewer food in the packaging or they create a ''new recipe'' which is supposedly ''tastier'' but obviously they just end up making it more watered down so they can save on costs. They do this all the time with all kinds of brands. Meanwhile the price stays the same, but you end up getting less for your money.
They've done the same with crips/chips. Adding more air to ''protect'' the food. While the price stays the same.
It's like jeans as well. All my life I've been a 32 waist but you can't get them shut these days.
@@Hieillua Plus Brexit has meant "shrinkflation" has been affecting more and more products. Ones I can think of are toblerone and Terry's chocolate orange
You never get enough of these and my mum loves them during the easter! She makes a delicious pudding using them and I can’t wait.
did you get Jaffa cake pudding for Easter ❤
They should totally make them with different jams. Raspberry, strawberry, blueberry... yum!
Wth i am reading comments and so many people didnt even hear about these? Im shocked xF
Same
Not everyone lives in the UK 🧍🏻♀️
0:36 "Fifteen thousand tons of jaffa cakes each year!" He's so proud about that XD
My brother and I grew up eating them .Love it every
flavor. Now my kids have them as a favorite cookie for snacks 😋.
How jaffa cakes are made?
Me: oh why not, i click I like and I realise had this not been in my recommendations I would have still searched for it one day in life😂🤷🏽♀️
As a Stargate SG 1 fan I'd say " Jaffa Kree!" Lol
lol
Only knew about Jaffa Cakes from Yogscast 😅
How?
@@elliot695 their Minecraft tekkit series was about building a fully automated jaffa factory, you should watch it :)
Mass production machinery is so impressive. Everything is lined up perfectly to create thousands of a near identical product per minute and with little human intervention. The damn things can more or less walk themselves out of the factory
Dude I love these, they are like heavens jelly biscuits, can't wait until I can get my hands on these again! If you ever find them, give em' a try.
Wheeeeeeeee!! Man, It looks so much fun to be a Jaffa cake 😂
The Jaffa cakes looks so good that I would like to try them. 😋😃
Their the best 😊.
Possibly the best snack ever made. I'm drinking tea right now and wishing I had some Jaffa Cakes here.
Watching this whilst eating a full pack of them and I couldn’t be more happy
I would love to try these one day. 😃
What are you doing here??? And yeah Jaffa cakes are the best
Yuummm I’ve never seen a Jaffa cake in my life until now
Lauren G :o i have them every day with tea! (now i sound like a proper brit) i am a Brit btw
Lauren G DUDEEEE! You gotta try one! They're the best!
nothing felt as good as showing up to your grans and seeing a box of these ready
This factory is my next holiday destination
I really want to try this. Maybe I will ask my sister to buy some for me when she visits her in-laws in Manchester. I'm sad that my parents did not buy these the last time they went to UK. Oh well, I'll see where I can get them. :(
rina aniraz Tell her to buy a lot of boxes, one ain't enough 😂😂
@CarrotShaker No, they went to Manchester. Which is in UK. They did not stop by the capital city England.
rina aniraz On another comment I saw that someone said you can buy them in the USA? I’m not sure but I think they said it’s called Pims or something
@@aniraz90s England is a country not a city
Jaffa cakes are originally Serbian. They are originally made by company called Crvenka.(Name of one city in Serbia where factory is). Than company Crvenka changed their name into Jaffa Crvenka. Brcause they became popular because of their Jaffa Cakes.
2:27 it pained me to see the cakes out of alignment 😵
Whoever is involved with making Jaffa Cakes is an absolute legend
UA-cam really understands me putting this in my recommended
Damn, this really put me in the mood for jammy dodgers
I want to own a factory like this!!😅
it had never occurred to me that other countries might not have Jaffa cakes in every shop, i don't think i could live in such a place
Jaffa cakes are amazing straight from the fridge