Abstract: Removable gripping device (1) for a cooking vessel (40), said device comprising a fixed member and a member which is mobile between an open position and a closed position, said device comprising displacement means capable of being controlled manually between an opening position and a closing position, said displacement means, when moving from the opening position thereof to the closing position thereof, causing the movement of the mobile member from its open position to its closed position, the fixed member comprising a front wall designed to bear against the external face of the peripheral wall of a cooking vessel, the mobile member, in its closed position, being designed to bear against the internal face of the peripheral wall of said vessel, characterized in that the mobile member comprises two arms (11, 12), each of the two arms (11, 12) being provided with an end part (15a, 15b) extending substantially parallel to the front wall (16) of the fixed member (2, 3), the displacement means (7, 10), when moving