The invention relates to a method for producing shaped food products in whicha frozen preliminary product is produced from one or more foods, in particularmeat, game, poultry, vegetable or fish or a combination and/or a mixture madeup of these, the preliminary product is shaped into a food product of the desiredcontour by means of at least one shaping operation in the course of processingand, within the shaping operation, at least one pressure die presses the preliminaryproduct against a planar or contoured abutment to produce the contour. It isintended that the invention will make the known shaping methods more gentle. For gentle processing, the invention proposes a phased shaping cycle or shapingin a number of partial pressing steps in which the pressure or displacement iscontrolled.
