Heating device, in particular for an electric cooking appliance, which heating device has: - at least one long heating conductor, - a carrying body on the top side of which the heating conductor is arranged and fixed, - a supporting apparatus (20, 22) for the carrying body, wherein: - the heating conductor is designed as a corrugated flat strip which has, at least on its bottom side, holding members which are arranged at a distance from one another and project or protrude downward, - the holding members are pushed into the carrying body, - the supporting apparatus (20, 22) supports the carrying body, at least in its outer region and/or along an outer edge, at the bottom, - the carrying body consists of compressed and/or adhesively bonded mica material, - the holding members are of tapered design in their longitudinal profile away from the heating conductor and have a tapered free tip, characterized in that - a base region of a holding member, which base region adjoins a bottom edge of the heating conductor, is provided with a length of between 0.1 mm and 2 mm in a direction transversely away from the heating conductor, - the tapered free tip adjoins the base region, - the tapered tip is narrower in the upper wider region than a minimum width of the base region. - at least one long heating conductor, - a carrying body on the top side of which the heating conductor is arranged and fixed, - a supporting apparatus (20, 22) for the carrying body, wherein: - the heating conductor is designed as a corrugated flat strip which has, at least on its bottom side, holding members which are arranged at a distance from one another and project or protrude downward, - the holding members are pushed into the carrying body, - the supporting apparatus (20, 22) supports the carrying body, at least in its outer region and/or along an outer edge, at the bottom, - the carrying body consists of compressed and/or adhesively bonded mica material, - the holding members are of tapered design in their longitudinal profile away from the heating conductor and have a tapered free tip, characterized in that - a base region of a holding member, which base region adjoins a bottom edge of the heating conductor, is provided with a length of between 0.1 mm and 2 mm in a direction transversely away from the heating conductor, - the tapered free tip adjoins the base region, - the tapered tip is narrower in the upper wider region than a minimum width of the base region. - the heating conductor is designed as a corrugated flat strip which has, at least on its bottom side, holding members which are arranged at a distance from one another and project or protrude downward, - the holding members are pushed into the carrying body, - the supporting apparatus (20, 22) supports the carrying body, at least in its outer region and/or along an outer edge, at the bottom, - the carrying body consists of compressed and/or adhesively bonded mica material, - the holding members are of tapered design in their longitudinal profile away from the heating conductor and have a tapered free tip, characterized in that - a base region of a holding member, which base region adjoins a bottom edge of the heating conductor, is provided with a length of between 0.1 mm and 2 mm in a direction transversely away from the heating conductor, - the tapered free tip adjoins the base region, - the tapered tip is narrower in the upper wider region than a minimum width of the base region.