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How It's Made
Season 16 · Episode 12
Tequila, Waterbeds, Flip Flops, Silver
10.021mDecember 17, 2010
Blue agave hearts are cooked, crushed, fermented and distilled to produce tequila. Sheets of flexible vinyl are cut, heat-sealed and fitted with valves to form waterbed mattresses; moulded soles and straps are assembled into flip-flops; and silver-bearing material is refined, melted and cast into usable forms.
Episodes
- Episode 1Millefiori Glass Paperweights, Road Salt, Nutcrackers, Car Doors
- Episode 2Straight Razors, Black Pudding, Steering Wheels, Inorganic Pigments
- Episode 3Cast Iron Cookware, Biodiesel, Clothes Hangers, Stone Wool Insulation
- Episode 4Needles and Pins, Architectural Mouldings, Locomotives, Clothespins
- Episode 5Filigree Glass, Fish Food, Motor Homes
- Episode 6Surgical Instruments, Ketchup, Double-Decker Buses, Walking Sticks
- Episode 7Audio Vacuum Tubes, Light Bars, Wood Model Aircraft, Metal Snare Drums