Abstract: Invention is a patty-forming apparatus with an innovative mold. The mold is a plate which has cavities for molding products in shape of cylindrical holes with base of arbitrary shape, and it also has a distinctive feature that there is a cut in the plate which goes through these holes and which allows to move plate parts apart in the directions parallel to the plate surface. The two parts of the plate are separated when the mold is being filled with mince, and then are connected for molding the product. The technical results are: possibility to mold well shaped products from minces with very poor fluidity and reduced energy cost of molding.