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Food industry is the industry that deals with the production, processing, preservation, packaging and transportation of foods. When evaluated in terms of the added value and sales revenues it provides, it is of critical importance in point of socio-economic in Turkey and the world. In recent years, the use of AISI304 and AISI316 stainless steels in food processing machines has increased considerably. The investigation of the suitability of the EDM method for manufacturing of extremely hard and complex geometric parts used in some components of these machines has been investigated in this study. For this purpose, AISI304 and AISI316 austenitic stainless steels were machined in a die sinking EDM machine using different machining parameters. Performance outputs obtained from the experimental work and machined surface images were compared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]