Patent ID: 8091810

Claim:
A device for crumbling food into food particles with an irregular shape, comprising: (a) a chute with openings on at least one of the two ends of said chute, (b) two plates mounted on the inside of said chute, such that said plates oppose each other with sufficient space between them to accommodate said food, where the gap between the top of said plates is larger than the gap between the bottom of said plates, with at least one of said plates sized such that it can be moved within said chute in a motion selected from the group consisting of up-and-down, side-to-side, diagonal, circular, in-and-out, and mixtures thereof relative to said opposing plate, (c) a plurality of features selected from the group consisting of protrusions, recesses, ridges, grooves, and mixtures thereof, all having smooth, rounded, finger-like shapes, located on a surface of at least one of said plates, where said surface faces said opposing plate, and (d) at least one handle that is connected to one of said plates such that when said handle is moved, said plate is moved relative to said opposing plate, whereby said food will be inserted into said chute, said food is then crumbled between said opposing plates when at least one of said plates is moved relative to said opposing plate using said handle, said food is converted into progressively smaller said food particles as it falls down between said plates, and then said food particles are removed from said chute after said food has been sufficiently crumbled.