Abstract: Handle of heat insulating material comprising a handle strap or a handle plate (12) and an integrally attached fastening body (16) for cooking pots, braising pots, frying pans and like pot or bath-shaped metallic kitchenware which have a respective projection provided with a threaded bore on the external surface of their wall in the region of the handle (10) to be fastened. The fastening body (16), which has an engagement surface (18) in the fastening region shaped complementarily to the outer wall of the kitchenware and is provided with a recess (24) for receiving the projection, is placeable on the projection and is securable by means of a fastening screw screwed into the threaded bore through a bore (26) in the fastening body (16). The bore (26) in the fastening body of the handle (10) has a recess for the head of the fastening screw in which the head of the fastening screw is recessed in the predetermined fastened position.