Cutting machine

A cutting machine is a machine that cuts food mechanically or electrically. It can also be used to cut through materials.

Types of cutting machines

There are multiple types of cutting machines. The most prominent ones are used for cutting food such as bread or meat, specifically meat slicers and bread cutting machines.

Meat slicers

Meat slicers use a rotating circular blade that is fixed on one side, while the material being cut is moved. They're sometimes also referred to as all-purpose slicers.

Bread cutting machines

Bread cutting machines usually work differently with industrial machines having blades passing through the bread. Home-use machines can slice the bread by guiding it along a mechanically rotating circular blade or pushing a blade through the bread. The first bread cutting machine was invented by Willy Abel from Berlin, while the first automatic one was invented in 1927 by American engineer Otto Frederick Rohwedder.

Shears

There are also machines not used for food but materials such as paper or silver.

Microtomes

In science, types of cutting machines used are called microtomes.