Abstract: A dispenser for frozen foods such as ice cream. The dispenser is provided with a tampering chamber for adjusting and maintaining a volume of frozen food at a tempering temperature, a retention chamber for retaining the frozen food at a holding temperature, and a configuration chamber for configuring the frozen-food for dispensing as well as adjusting and maintaining the frozen food at a serving temperature. Individually controllable hydraulic cylinders are connected to rams which push the frozen food from the retention chamber into the configuration chamber and through an outlet provided in the configuration chamber. As the frozen food passes through the configuration chamber outlet it is received by a scoop which partitions the frozen food into ball-shaped portions.