PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device for loosening cooked rice for a food molding machine, capable of reliably improving the effect for loosening cooked rice in a cooked rice feed hopper.SOLUTION: The device includes a rotatable loosening blade 4 pivotally supported in a cooked rice hopper 1. In order to have a large rotational orbit of the loosening blade, the loosening blade is eccentrically rotated to agitate and loosen cooked rice a. The loosened rice is fed to a food molding machine 8 through a cooked rice measuring and splitting section 7.COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】米飯供給ホッパー内での米飯の解し効果を確実に向上させることができる食品成形機の米飯解し方法および米飯解し装置を提供する。【解決手段】米飯ホッパー1内に架設軸支された回転可能な解し羽根4を備え、該解し羽根の回転軌道を大きくすべく当該解し羽根を偏心回転させることによって米飯aを攪拌して解し、これを米飯計量分割部7を介して食品成形機8に供給するように構成されている。【選択図】図3