Ultra high speed hot dog incisor

A device for superficially incising a cylindrical shaped meat product, the meat product defining a longitudinal axis, and said device comprising:

• a cutting element for incising the meat product, said cutting element being rotatable about said axis relative to the meat product and engageable therewith to translate the meat product along said axis at a relative translational velocity V while incising the meat product;
• a motor for rotating said cutting element about said axis;
• means for advancing said meat product into said cutting element at substantially said translational velocity V;
• and
• means for withdrawing said meat product from said cutting element at substantially said translational velocity V.

A method for superficially incising a sausage-like meat product which comprises the steps of:

• providing a device having a base, a tubular shaped cutter housing formed with a lumen for receiving a cylindrical shaped meat product therethrough, said cutter housing having an inlet and outlet, and having an inner surface and outer surface, said cutter housing also defining a longitudinal axis, at least one cutting blade mounted on said cutter housing to protrude from said inner surface toward said longitudinal axis, said cutting blade having a first end and a second end with said cuffing blade inclined at an angle α relative to said longitudinal axis with the said first end of said cutting blade being closer to the cutter housing inlet than said second end of said cutting blade, a motor mounted on said base for rotating said cutter housing around said longitudinal axis, an injector mounted on said base for injecting the meat product into said cutter housing inlet;
• and an ejector mounted on said base for withdrawing the incised meat product from said cutter housing outlet;
• inserting a meat product into said injector;
• advancing the meat product into said cutter housing;
• and
• extracting the meat product from said ejector.