World’s Factory Tours and Workshops

28/02/2020

🇫🇷 If you happen to be in , , make sure you pay a visit to Domaine Truffier de Saleix 👩‍🌾 It’s a family truffle farm, which has been owned by them for several centuries 🏡
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Christine, who is an owner and an adorable host, guided us through their plantation with a dog called Love, who was hunting for some truffles during our walk, while Christine told us all about the truffles 🐶
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🌳All the trees that the family has were not planted on the same day. Between the moment you plant a tree and the moment it bears the 1st truffles you have to wait for 8-10 years. Moreover, only 15% of the trees can bear truffles because of different factors: parasites, poor mycorrhization process, weather conditions, etc 🍃 The good thing is that trees can live for around 200-300 years and bear truffles during all this time. A visual sign that tells you a tree will bear truffles is a “burnt” soil around that tree. Burnt soil (or “brulé” in French) means the symbiosis between the mycelium of a fungus and the roots of the tree is there and that is why there’s no other vegetation around 😮
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🌳Christine told that a truffle farm requires a lot of care. You plant trees, water them, check the soil with a microscope, protect them from parasites and rodents. You also have to cut the tops of the trees in order to stimulate the growth of the roots and guarantee good ventilation of the branches as “le truffe de Perigord” doesn’t like shadow. There’s even a folk dictum that says "a tree with its branches should be so spacious as to let a swallow easily fly through it"🕊️
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🌳After a great walk around the farm and finding a few truffles, we were invited to Christine’s house to taste them with a glass of white wine next to a fireplace🥂She showed us family pictures since the farm has started and a book that her ancestor wrote about truffles many years ago 📖 It was a great mix of learning something new and a very cozy atmosphere which feels like home 🥰
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📌Read more on Domaine Truffier de Saleix visit on our website 👉🏻: https://man-made.world/listings/truffle-farm-domaine-truffier-de-saleix/ @ Sorges et Ligueux en Périgord

24/02/2020

24/02/2020

Truffles are known as a very special kind of delicacy all over the world 🤤🌎 However, a lot of people associate it with chocolate candies. Read more to learn about the true truffles and what they are ➡️

A “truffle” is a subterranean fungus that grows in the shadow of oak trees. Simply said, it’s a rare kind of a mushroom 🔍

🤓It’s been known in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The latter admired truffles but thought that it was impossible to cultivate them. They believed that it was a wonderous combination of water, warmth and lightning which bore those mushrooms. 🇫🇷 In XVII century Ludwig XIV officially introduced “truffle” to the royal court, making it a traditional dish of the French cuisine. 🇮🇹 Italian monarchs even started to organize royal hunts for them.

🤓In 1808 Joseph Talon found truffles between roots of several oaks and then proceeded to plant the acorns of those trees 🐿 In a few years, when the oaks grew, he found the truffles again. Later this method spread and helped create the 1st “truffières” that is a French word for “truffle groves”. Since truffles appear only between the roots of a tree, a truffière looks like a tree plantation, full of stone oaks, hornbeams, nut-trees and linden-trees🌳

🤓Just recently was found a method of “mycorrhization”, that is creating a symbiosis between the mycelium of a fungus and the roots of a tree. It is a modern way to cultivate truffles. It’s important to do it the right way, as when it’s poorly done, the trees bear other types of mushrooms but not truffles.

All in all, growing truffles is not an easy and cheap process 💸 It combines a lot of knowledge, time, taking care of trees and simply luck weather-wise. That’s why they are appreciated so highly and cost a lot. Around 1000 euros can get you just 1 kilo of truffles. In the next post we will visit a real truffle farm in France and see how it’s all done ourselves! 🤩

📌To read more on Domaine Truffier de Saleix visit, follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/truffle-farm-domaine-truffier-de-saleix/

31/01/2020

🇺🇸Hey there, I’m Celine. My hubby, 3 boys, and I live full-time in a travel trailer🚐 as we explore Canada 🇨🇦and the 🇺🇸. Follow us in IG and on FB: Where's The Moose?
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❓Did you know that every bottle of Tabasco Sauce is made in one big factory on Avery Island in Louisiana? We saw the plants that grow the peppers and the place where it all gets produced.
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☀️If you want to do and see everything and you dispose of half a day, there are 3 different areas to explore: The Tabasco Factory Store, Touring the Tabasco Factory, and Touring Avery Island & Jungle Garden.
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🥳We chose to spend all of our time on the self-guided tour and on visiting the store. Tour tickets for adults & children 5 & up cost $5.50, seniors and veterans cost $4.95. The tour takes about 30 minutes.
If you bring a group of 20+, you can book a guided version of the tour and get in-depth info from a historian.
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🌶First, we were each given tiny bottles of Tabasco Sauce samples to bring home. We went inside a small museum with many interesting displays about the history of the factory and the merchandise. From there, we walked outside to a greenhouse to see the hot peppers growing. We saw large rooms full of the barrels of peppers packed in vinegar where they will stay, being salt-cured for up to 3 years!🗓
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♨️In the next building we saw different processes the peppers go through to be made into the sauce. The smell of the spicy sauce was quite strong. We enjoyed walking through a small area set up like an underground mine and learned about how they get all of the salt for currying the sauce.
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📸At the end, we found a room with jumbo-sized Tabasco Sauce bottles to take pictures by.
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Make sure you save time to see all of the unique merchandise at the Tabasco Factory Store🤑 You are sure to find just the right gift for every Tabasco-lover you know!🎁 And you can try every sauce flavor they make – don’t start with their hottest flavor though. The most unique sample we tried was Tabasco ice cream🍦
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📌 To read more on Tabasco factory tour please follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/tabasco-avery-island/ @ Avery Island, Louisiana

18/01/2020

👋🏻🇷🇸🇮🇹 Heya! It’s me again, Luka .lukastokic. I’m a Serbian youtuber who LOVES cars! And the best way to see how they’re made is to take a factory tour. ✈️ So while I was on a business trip, I decided to drop by Ferrari factory museum.
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🙈When I arrived there, the first thing I saw was a green Ferrari car which you can test drive. I decided not to take risk and didn’t do it.
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🦈👃At the time I was there, Ferrari museum had an exhibition dedicated to 70th anniversary of Ferrari. I saw there:
✅ A wooden frame which was used to create an aluminum bodywork for the first Ferrari ever made named “Shark Nose” &
✅ A picture of a layout, ergonomics and the position of legs in the car. It showed a very well-known 250 GTO wireframe and it basically explained that every car nowadays is a clay model before it’s signed off to the production.
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🧒🏻✏️🚗The level 2 of the museum was crazy. I loved the Enzo Ferrari quote on the wall which said “ask a child to draw a car, certainly he will do it red”. I reckon that’s what he kept in mind creating cars.
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🏆🥇1 room in the museum was full of trophies, medals and Formula 1 cars. In the last room there were FFT Ferrari Enzo (400 untis made), Laferrari (499 units made) & FXXK, f50 models of Ferrari which were beautiful. Laferrari is a beast that has f1 technology HY-KERS system - a kinetic energy recovering system, which sends the power back to batteries during breaking and cornering.
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🏎 BTW, in order to be invited to own one of FFT Ferrari Enzo models, you have to own at least 5 ferraris. It’s a model that is a tribute to Ferrari founder - Enzo.
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🤩🤩I must say that Ferrari museum is something out of this world. Outside the museum there are:
🏁simulators, so you can try “driving” latest Ferrari cars.
💲Ferrari store to buy everything you can😜
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📸😁The tour was super impressive. I even met an official Ferrari Museum photographer who took some pictures of me. If you’re a petrol head I highly recommend it, do not miss it if you come to Maranello.
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📌More on Ferrari museum & factory tour👉🏻: https://man-made.world/listings/ferrari-museum-and-factory-tour/ @ Maranello

12/01/2020

🇷🇺🇫🇷Hi there👋🏻I am Alena a bit of a traveller, a bit of a story-teller, a bit of an artist and MS in social science. Living between Moscow and Lille I try everyday to benefit from both cities and countries
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🍾☝🏻After making a terrible mistake of taking only 1 bottle of Champaign for the New Year’s Eve we decided to improve the experience taking a deep dive into the champagne history and technology - by spending the 1st weekend of 2020 in Reims (Champagne region)
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🏡🍾Here you will find cellars of all the most famous «maisons» (brands). It’s better to prepare the visit in advance as the cellars may not be organizing visits at your dates or be overbooked already. We’ve booked the visit and tasting at G.H. MUMM
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🍇🥂The tour lasts around 1 hour during which the guests follow the path of grapes from their birth at the winery to the final drop of champagne in your glass. The visit takes place on 2 levels of cellars. The 1st one, 7 meters below the ground, includes museum and the story of pressing and «juicing» of the grapes. The 2nd level, 14 meters below the ground, is the place where 25 million of bottles of MUMM champagne are waiting for their staring moment✨
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✌🏻2 things that have really impressed me during the tour:
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🙌🏻 a lot of processes are still manual and very traditional. Not because of lack of innovations or finance (would be quite funny for the Exclusive supplier of the British Royal Family👑) but to preserve techniques and exquisite quality of the product!
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🍾you are passing by the real cellars with the real bottles with the real champagne inside - it’s not the role play or still museum, it’s a live-process. But, as in any French production, it takes time - so while the time passes you can take a long walk around
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💃🏼🕺🏻I’d recommend the visit to couples or adult groups. It can be quite confusing and not very interesting for kids, moreover, the final step of the visit is tasting, which is for sure not for kids or teens
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☝🏻Consume alcohol consciously, happily and with the full understanding of process🍇🍾🥂
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📌Learn more on MUMM visit👉🏻: https://man-made.world/listings/maison-g-h-mumm-champagne-house-visite/ @ Caves G.H MUMM

07/01/2020

🏰🇩🇪A long time ago (11th cntr), in a faraway kingdom, the whole left bank of the Rhine in Cologne was used as an anchoring and loading area. It served its purpose longtime until nearby ports became bigger, so this one was no longer needed. In 1976 it was decided to transform the port into a leisure and recreation area

❤️🍫In 1991, a dreamer and a chocolate lover Hans Imhoff purchased the building of the former main customs office on the tip of Rheihnauhafen peninsula, the tower, the swing bridge and the monument “der tauzieher” (the rope puller) to build there a Chocolate Museum, with the main part of it being located at the ex main customs office. The entire museum was made to look like a ship in honor of the history of the place it’s located on🛳

👨‍👨‍👧‍👦In 1993, the museum was opened and now has over 600 000 visitors a year

📈🔍When you’re on the tour at the museum, you learn lots of facts about Hans Imhoff’s life and see screens with chocolate history and statistics from all over the world, you can find a 3m-tall chocolate fountain that is constantly bubbling 200 kg of chocolate and eat some wafers dipped in it😋❤️

🌴But the most exciting thing there - is a tropical house! A real area of a rainforest you can walk around to experience the humid warm climate of the tropics. You’ll find more than 1000 plants to admire – palm trees, sugar canes, vanilla and cacao trees, of course!

🌡️The biggest challenge was to perfectly recreate the tropical climate required by a cacao tree. The temperature there must stay between 25C to 28C with 80-90% humidity. It’s regulated by ventilation flaps, heating systems and mist jets.

⤴️👣If you go upstairs, you’ll find Lindt chocolate factory. You can check how chocolate bars, hollow figures and pralines get made and actually try the samples of what just has been produced!

🤩At the end of the tour don’t miss the Lindt shop! There’s so much to choose from!

😁The tour is very exciting and in case you wanted to go on a vacation to a warm country – it’s your chance to visit the tropics☀️🕶

📌To learn more on Cologne Chocolate Museum (Lindt) please follow 👉🏻: https://man-made.world/listings/lindt-chocolate-museum/

06/01/2020

📍🧳To get to a factory and become actual chocolate products, cocoa beans have to embark on a pretty long journey. Buckle up and we will tell you everything!
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🌎👨‍🌾Nowadays, cocoa beans are harvested by farmers in different parts of the world, it doesn’t have to be a rainforest in Central America anymore. The number of cocoa farmers is estimated at 5 to 6 million in total. More than 90% of all the cocoa is grown by small scale farmers, while the largest farms are in Сôte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
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☀️😎After harvested, the cocoa beans are placed in the sunlight to dry. The drying process lasts several days and may even extend up to 3 weeks during rainy seasons, meanwhile cocoa beans lose around half their weight and increase in flavor😋
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🚢🤑As a rule, chocolate manufacturers purchase their cocoa from a trader or get it directly from a cocoa producer. Cocoa and other raw materials are also traded on the commodity futures exchange in the form of contracts, so sometimes cocoa that is traded hasn’t been harvested yet.
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📈💥The price of cocoa originates on the future exchanges in New York and London. The world market price of cocoa depends on short-term fluctuations caused by various factors. Among these are current political situation, climate conditions, the amount of cocoa harvested vs the demand and any unexpected events, too.
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🏆💝As of 2019, chocolate remains one of the most popular products in the world. In Germany, for instance, more than 1’100’000 tons of chocolate and chocolate products were produced in 2016. In our next post we will tell you about our visit to an amazing Chocolate Museum in Cologne (Germany).

📌To read about Cologne Chocolate Museum (Lindt) tour where we learnt all of the above please follow: https://man-made.world/listings/lindt-chocolate-museum/

05/01/2020

🎄During “Christmas + New year” season chocolate consumption 🍫 grows immensely. Check for yourself: according to the National Confectioners Association more than 90% of Americans planned to gift chocolate 🎁. That’s why in this period of Holidays we decided to share with you some interesting facts about these sweet little pieces of joy 💝 😋
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🌳 Chocolate originated in the amazon lowlands, the largest rainforest region on earth. The beans gained great significance and large plantations were cultivated in Central America in 7th century A.D. In 18th century Swedish naturalist Carl von Linnè gave the cocoa tree its scientific name “Theobroma cacao” which means “food of the gods”.
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🤓A Cocoa tree is between 4 and 6 meters (while some plants can reach 20 meters!) and it bears fruit all year around. It can also live for 100 years! Imagine how much chocolate even one cocoa tree can help to produce! What’s interesting is that a cocoa tree is evergreen and the leaves have no supporting connective tissues so they hang limply on the branches.
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🥜Not all the cocoa beans look the same: the fruit’s shell may be furrowed or smooth and the color may vary between light yellow and dark red. The beans size is between 10 and 30 cm and a width is up to 10 cm. The pulp in the center of the cocoa fruit tastes very sweet which is why it is also popular amongst squirrels and monkeys 🐒🐿
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⛵️ The Spanish conquistadores discovered cocoa on their arrival and fell in love with it😍. By the 17th century, the growing European cocoa market led to the deliberate spread of cocoa to the Caribbean islands and as far as mainland Venezuela and Colombia✨. Later it spread everywhere else.
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☕️In our next post we will tell you what happens to cocoa beans so they become the chocolate we can buy.
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📌To read about Cologne Chocolate Museum (Lindt) tour where we learnt all of the above please follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/lindt-chocolate-museum/

15/12/2019

👐🏻🔬Well, diamonds finally got into goldsmith’s hands. What is done to light them up? 😏
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⛓ The whole process can be divided into 4 stages: drawing/marking, cleaving/sawing, bruting and polishing
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🔪Drawing/marking. This is the stage when the expert decides how it’s better to cut the diamond 👀It might have some imperfections, so not all the parts of the stone can be fixed during the processing work but it should be cut with minimum waste. As diamonds first came from India, an Indian ink pen 🖋was used to determine where the stone has to be cut. Nowadays this job is left to technologies💻
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🔨Cleaving/sawing. That’s when the stone is actually split. It could be done with a single blow or you can divide it by sawing the diamond against the grain. Did you know what is mostly used to cut diamonds? Also diamonds. Or lasers🤖
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⭕️ Bruting. This stage is designed to round the roughs since not all the stones are perfectly round after the splitting. Two diamonds are placed on a spinning axle across each other, turning in opposite directions and grinding against each other to create a rough girdle finish.
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💎Polishing. Now it’s time to create and form the facets of diamonds. Usually, the more facets it’s got – the shinier✨ and the more expensive 💸 it is. During brillianteering, the total number of facets are added (the number might vary), 57 being the most expensive kind since a lot of the stone is cut off. The rule is simple – more facets equals more money⚖️
At the Diamondland tour we were shown their exclusive Royal 201 cut, in which a diamond has more than 57 facets although there’s not much of a price difference comparing to 57 facets.
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🤯Finally, all the stages are completed. Of course, before going further, diamonds are going through a very strict inspection🔬process. It has to meet the specifications, otherwise the stone would be sent back to the polishers for some touching up.
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Now, be honest: do you think it’s actually worth so much effort and money to put into creating diamond jewelry?🤐

📌 To read more on Diamondland factory tour please follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/diamond-land-antwerp/

16/11/2019

🔦When diamonds are found, they hardly look like those pretty sparkling stones as we know them✨ It takes them a pretty long way to get to be as polished as we see them in stores. What happens exactly after they’re mined? Read further to find out 😉 👉👉👉
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💫So, the diamonds are mined. Once this has been done, the raw crystals are sorted according to size, color, shape and other chemical and physical characteristics👩‍🔬
Fun fact: each carat (0.2 g) of diamond means that about 22 200 kilos of rock had to be extracted from the ground 😮
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⚙️The most common diamond route for the export is going through the channels of De Beers, the largest mining group in the world ⛏ You might have heard of this company due to their motto: “diamonds are forever” 💎 As they’re the hardest and most durable stones ever, it may very well be so 😉
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💵 The mining companies organize invite-only sales sessions where the unprocessed diamonds can be purchased by diamond crafters 🧐The guests may purchase the diamonds themselves and then sell them to smaller traders, which in their turn cut the rough diamonds and sell the polished stones either to jewelry creators or to diamond wholesalers.
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💍The jewelry creators put them into finished accessories to sell to jewelers😻 So, there is a lot of selling going on, as you can see. That’s one of the reasons why they’re so expensive.
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⏳ On average, it can take five months for a diamond to be processed from deep underground to, for example, wonderful diamond earrings.
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🌍 However, this story was about diamond’s trip to the buyer only. In the next post we will tell you how a stone actually becomes girls’ best friend - so beautiful and shiny🤩

📌 To read more on Diamondland factory tour please follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/diamond-land-antwerp/

16/11/2019

To read more on diamond factory tour in Antwerp please follow: https://man-made.world/listings/diamond-land-antwerp/

04/11/2019

💎Did you know that the word “diamond” derives from the Greek 🇬🇷 word “Adamas”, meaning “invincible”? This is because it’s the hardest rock and it was believed that no one could destroy it🙅‍♂️ How did it happen that it also became so popular in jewelry business? What’s the story behind it? I’ll tell you what I learnt at Diamondland 🤓
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🤓Around 3000 years ago, the first diamond was found in India🇮🇳 Initially, people couldn’t process diamond stones so they used them uncut for the decorations 🤩Soon enough they discovered they could use one diamond to cut another, so the decorations became much nicer.
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📖In 17th century, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, a famous French 🇫🇷 merchant traveled several times to India cause he became fascinated with diamonds and wanted to visit all the mines of Asia🌏 His second journey took him to Hong Kong 🇭🇰- the diamond center of the world back then. He invented a system that helped him classify the stones – color, carat weight, clarity, cut. In doing so, he was laying a foundation of today’s 4C method 💎
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⚖️So the 4C is a standard on how the diamonds are supposed to be rated. What is this for? It is used so diamond quality could be communicated all over the world without any missing details. Each of C’s can be graded on the scale💯 These gradings help to set the value of a diamond🤑 So knowing this principle, you can be sure that the diamond you like is really worth its money.
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🔬Diamonds are not only used in jewelry, they are also used in making the tools for automotive, aircraft, textile and medical fields🏭 The stones for these needs are not of the same quality as the ones that can be found in jewelry stores but they still have all the most important features – durability and hardness.
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What do you think is more important - how good a diamond looks or that it will survive through anything and you can wear it for a really long time?🤔
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📌 To read more on Diamondland factory tour please follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/diamond-land-antwerp/ @ Diamondland

29/10/2019

🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium is the world’s capital for diamonds 💎 It is a place where diamonds go directly after mining, and it’s from here that they get resold to other countries. In Antwerp, there are around 2500 companies who sell diamonds, because the law regulates all these operations really well ✅
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🏭 💎 If you are staying in Antwerp there’s one thing you can’t surely miss, that is a visit to a diamond factory. This is what we thought and booked a tour to Diamondland.
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🛠The 1st thing you notice when the tour begins is two windows - “brilliant-cutting” and “cross-cutting”. As you get closer you see the workers working on the real diamonds! 👩‍🔧Next to it there is a 4C matrix that explains on what basis the price of a diamond is calculated. That is very informative, as you understand which diamonds are the most expensive and why 💰
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💠For a whole hour we dived into the world of facets, carats and shine. Really, some of the diamonds were so sparkly that we squinted to protect our eyes. During the tour we saw all the diamonds possible, while our guide was teaching us plenty of stuff about these precious stones. Did you know that even red colored diamonds exist? They are the rarest along with the white ones. Some of the diamonds we saw were called “river” 💙cause they were so white that they had a blue shade to them.
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💍❤️At the end of the tour women tried on necklaces and rings, falling in love with those little sparkling stones and being completely unable to separate from them (if you are not sure, don’t try them on. I didn’t)🥰 And to make it even “worse” they offered us to custom a ring: you choose the size, shape and color of the stone, wait 15 minutes while their diamond setter makes the ring happen and you get your jewelry.
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👸🏻💸If you are a man and you plan to visit Diamondland factory with your wife or girlfriend, it will be hard to leave without buying a little something for your lady.
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📌 To read more on Diamondland factory tour please follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/diamond-land-antwerp/ @ Diamondland

15/10/2019

🇷🇸 Hello everyone, my name is Luka Stokic .lukastokic and I’m from Serbia. I’m a youtuber and I make vlogs wherever I go so make sure to check out my channel as well✌️
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✈️ I was on a business trip to Maranello and I decided to visit Pagani factory😎 Funny thing, I accidentally went there with my Ferrari backpack…Opps 😅
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🚘 Just when I entered the building, first thing I saw was a clay model of Pagani Huayra, one of my most favorite cars ever. Huayra is the only Pagani that can be sold in United States because it’s turbocharged and produces less emissions than any other Pagani vehicle.
Right there stood a motorcycle which Pagani made at the age of 15 🤯
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🤓 In 1999 Horacio made a Zonda c12, "C" as "Christina", who is his wife. He wanted to thank her for her support 💑 Zonda F, where F stands for Fangio, who is a racing driver who helped Pagani come to Italy and start building his dream, so that was a way to thank him as well. Only there I found out that Horacio Pagani was originally from Argentina 🇦🇷Actually, Zonda means wind in a Spanish dialect there 🌬
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🎁 In the factory there is a special area where anyone (anyone who’s lucky!) can buy a Pagani car and have a spectacular reveal of the car
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🏰 We go through one small hallway which is made out of bricks with the small windows on the side where you could see the Huayra BC on the left, it’s like walking around small castle. The whole building is made to resemble an Italian Piazza and that explains the design since they even had those old fashioned lamps and brick towers with a clock on the top.
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😍 Honestly, I expect this place to be very beautiful in the future because there’s still a lot of work to be done. I will need to come back at some point to see everything finished 👌I think it’s gonna be a pure art, and as they call Pagani, art on wheels 👨‍🎨🚗
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📌 To read more on Pagani factory visit, please follow the link: https://man-made.world/listings/pagani-factory-tour/ @ Pagani Automobili