Types of Food Processing Equipment

 Slicers , choppers, cutters and dicers can be manual or motor-driven. The choice for either depends on the quantities of material that need to be processed in a day.

  Potato chips cutter with a fixed blade.

These kinds of equipment work by pressing the food against a blade, which can be fixed, moving, or rotating. The blade can be smooth, toothed, serrated, and so on. Another difference can be made by the angle at which the blade and food meet. 

Mandoline slicers have a fixed blade and move the food accross the blade.

Bowl cutters are mostly used for cutting meat into a fine paste, e.g. for sausage making. The work by turning the food in a bowl agains a rotating blade.

fixed, smooth blade presses against a rotating food press at a slant.

The thickness or diameter of the cut pieces can be adjusted by changing the blade type or changing the distance of the blade from the food.

A large variety of specialized blades are available for variety of uses.

The slide show below gives you an idea of different balde and cutter types. Hover the mouse over each image to read its description.