Abstract: Cutting machine for foodstuffs, including a rotatable blade, a slide which can be moved to and fro, and a supporting surface for cuttable material to be cut off, which supporting surface is attached movably to the slide and can be transferred from a first position, which encloses an angle not equal to 0° with the horizontal, into a second, horizontal position, the cutting machine having resetting means which, when the supporting surface moves from the first position into the second position, can exert a resetting force on the supporting surface.