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az09mugentoday at 11:26 AM0 repliesview on HN

That's right, the best is to have a watered dishcloth that will suffocate the fire, hence stopping it. The fire extinguisher may be a bad idea because the pressure will spread burning oil around across the kitchen and the water is definitively the worse idea because it will counterintuitively make a bigger flame and also spread burning oil.