Episode
How Do They Do It?: Peanut Butter, Breaking Point
Overview
How are peanuts harvested, roasted and transformed into peanut butter; and how are domestic appliances tested?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2010-06-11
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Peanut Butter, Breaking Point is Episode 3 in Season 7 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2010-06-11. The runtime is 22 min.
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