Cutters are designed for finely grinding soft meat raw materials and converting them into a uniform homogeneous mass. Meat raw materials in cutters are ground using rapidly rotating sickle-shaped knives mounted on a shaft.

The knives are alternately immersed in a bowl rotating at a frequency of up to 0.3 s-1. Grinding is carried out in open bowls or under vacuum. In addition, the cutters combine the grinding and mixing processes.