Abstract: A skewering device comprising a frame structure defining a magazine adapted to receive a cartridge, a cartridge adapted to receive food to be skewered and thereafter loaded into the magazine, and a skewering assembly carried by the frame structure operative when actuated to pass a plurality of skewers in parallel fashion through the food in the cartridge with the cartridge loaded into the magazine. The frame structure comprises a pair of parallel rails, and the skewering assembly includes a plurality of parallel tubes positioned between the rails, a plurality of parallel push rods positioned with their one ends extending into one ends of the tubes, and a power cylinder positioned at the end of the frame structure opposite from the magazine with the free end of the piston rod of the cylinder secured to a cross member mounting the other ends of the push rods.