Device and method for producing food patties with sealed in ingredients

A device for providing a food patty with an ingredient disposed inside the formed patty, the device comprising:

• a first patty material receptacle including a first recess for receiving a first portion of patty material therein;
• a second patty material receptacle including a respective second recess for receiving a second portion of patty material therein, and the first and second recesses being shaped for being disposed one upon the other with the recesses facing each other;
• a patty material shaping die and a support for the die, the die including a pocket forming part thereon which is shaped for forming a pocket in the portion of patty material in one of the recesses;
• the support being movable for disposing the die into the one recess so that the die may cooperate with the recess for shaping the portion of patty material in the recesses to define a pocket in the patty for receiving an additional ingredient.

A method for forming a food patty with an additional ingredient inside the patty, the method comprising:

• placing first and second portions of patty material in respective separate first and second patty material receptacles;
• shaping the first portion of the patty material disposed in at least the first of the receptacles at an exposed surface of the first portion of patty material by applying a pocket forming die to the exposed surface of the patty material in the first receptacle, thereby forming a pocket in the exposed surface of the patty material in the first receptacle;
• removing the die from the first receptacle;
• placing an additional ingredient in the pocket formed in the patty material;
• moving the first and second receptacles with their portions of patty material, each with an exposed face of the receptacle outward, to bring the portions of patty material together, to define a completed patty with the additional ingredient in the patty.