Abstract: In the method and installation of this invention a piece of soft cheese formed in a mold constituted by a vertical cylinder open at both ends and resting on a plate with one of the open ends is removed from the mold cylinder by simultaneously lifting the mold cylinder and the piece of cheese to displace them away from the plate. The piece of cheese is displaced by a suction cup mounted above the other open end of the mold cylinder and the mold cylinder is displaced by a vertically movable clamp holding the mold cylinder tightly. The plate is then substituted by a support for the piece of cheese and the suction cup is vertically displaced relative to the clamp so as to extract the piece of cheese through the open mold cylinder end and to place it on the support.