Episode
How Do They Do It?: Sugar, Feather Dusters, Balloons
Overview
How do they turn ugly root vegetables into sweet sugar? How do they make feather dusters? And, how do they make billions of balloons to keep parties popping?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2017-12-20
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Sugar, Feather Dusters, Balloons is Episode 18 in Season 15 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2017-12-20. The runtime is 22 min.
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