To provide a method for cutting a rod-like food material capable of cleanly cutting the rod like food material without leaving any small projection at the cross section, and a cutting device applying this method.

This method for cutting a rod-like food is provided by forming a shearing edge 11 conducting the shearing motion at the tip end of an almost shell head-shaped cutter body 1 capable of making a shuttle-like movement. Any kind of a food material can be cut cleanly by the point contacts of shearing edges 11, 11..., while passing by each other in accordance with the synchronous shuttle-like movements of each of the cutter bodies 1, 1....