Abstract: A cover or splatter screen for a cooking vessel which in use rests atop the cooking vessel to prevent splashing of hot liquid, especially fatty liquid from the vessel during cooking, while permitting passage of water vapor and steam from the cooking vessel; the cover has a support frame and a wire mesh screen extending between opposed sides of the frame and a plurality of support legs in spaced apart relationship extending outwardly of the support frame and downwardly of the wire mesh screen; the support legs support the cover in a free-standing configuration on a flat supporting surface with the wire mesh screen spaced from the flat supporting surface; typically the flat supporting surface is a kitchen working surface, and thus the cover may be supported on the kitchen working surface with the wire mesh screen in non-contacting relationship with the kitchen working surface, whereby soiling of the kitchen working surface by fats retained by the wire mesh screen during working is avoided.