The invention discloses an air cooling refrigerator defrosting method. The air cooling refrigerator defrosting method includes the following steps that: first step, after accumulative operating time of a compressor achieves a set value, the method enters a second step; second step, defrosting preparation is performed; third step, after the temperature of a freezing chamber drops TLD degrees, an electric control device of the refrigerator judges whether THS is smaller than TDFTE-3 degrees in a refrigeration process of the freezing chamber, when THS<=TDFTE-3 degrees, the second step is terminated, and the method enters a fourth step; and fourth step, defrosting is performed, the defrosting specifically includes the following steps that: the electric control device controls the compressor and makes the same stop working, and then, starts up a freezing defrosting heating tube to heat an evaporator, and turns off the freezing defrosting heater when a freezing defrosting electric heating condition quitting condition is satisfied, and the electric control device control makes the compressor stop for 6 minutes, and then, the air cooling refrigerator defrosting method is terminated, a normal startup-shutdown control program is initiated. According to the air cooling refrigerator defrosting method of the invention, an optimized control method is utilized to perform fine adjustment on a defrosting process, and therefore, energy consumption increase caused by frequent defrosting of the refrigerator can be avoided, and condensed frost can be melt completely.