To provide a fire extinguishing method and apparatus capable of easily responding to oil fire by minimizing the expansion of the fire due to dispersion of oil.

This fire extinguishing method for extinguishing the oil fire generated from home-use or business-use cookers when overheating edible oil, applies extinguishant to the cooker generating the fire from one or more injection discharge holes as continuous liquid droplets at the flow rate from 20 ml/min to 1,200 ml/min per hole and applies it from the height of not less than 0 cm and less than 300 cm at the flow rate of the range till the fire is extinguished.