A CUTTING ASSEMBLY, A KNIFE FOR THE CUTTING ASSEMBLY, A COUNTER DEVICE FOR THE CUTTING ASSEMBLY, AND A METHOD OF SLICING FOOD WITH THE CUTTING ASSEMBLY

A cutting assembly (1) for cutting thin slices of non-rigid food objects, the cutting assembly comprising a circular knife (4, 5), a counter-structure (8) with a counter-hold (7), and a movement-structure configured for moving the knife in a cutting-plane relative to the counter-structure with the frontside facing the counter-hold such that a point at which the knife contacts the counter-hold moves along the counter-hold from an enter-point to an exit- point while the food object is cut between the counter-hold and the knife. To ensure the ability to slice food objects into very thin slices, and the ability to eject such thin slices in a well-ordered manner from the knife, the knife has a rim frontside (37) defining a cutting angle (52) to the centre axis and a centre backside defining at least one eject angle (53, 54) to the centre axis, the eject angle being smaller than the cutting angle, and the counter-hold (7) is movable relative to the counter-structure (8) such that the counter-hold moves in a direction away from the knife during movement of the knife in the cutting-plane.