Patent ID: 8820202

Claim:
A method for simultaneously slicing a plurality of food products into portions each including a plurality of product slices, the plurality of food products being sliced by a common slicing apparatus having at least one rotary cutting blade disposed in a cutting plane to which the plurality of food products are fed on a plurality of tracks, the method comprising the steps of: interrupting a feed of a food product in a track of one of the plurality of tracks if a residual food product remainder in the track is no longer sufficient for forming at least one complete portion and if the residual food product remainder in at least one other track is still sufficient for forming at least one complete portion; slicing the residual food product remainders into incomplete part portions once the residual food product remainders of all of the plurality of tracks have reached a dimension which is no longer sufficient for forming the at least one complete portion; and completing the incomplete part portions by a product slice of following food products.