Does cooking more than one thing in the oven take longer?

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Ex: Cooking 2 pizzas (same temp/time needed) in the oven at the same time. Can I just set the same temperature and time as cooking one, and they’ll both come out perfect still? Why or why not? (Let’s ignore differences in cooking based on which rack the pizza is on lol)

I don’t cook much lol, so I’m trying to wrap my head around how cooking “consumes(?)” heat energy. More food mass isn’t going to *reduce* the temperature in the oven or anything… is it? And, the food masses aren’t connected, so not sharing heat distribution(?), so that seems like they shouldn’t affect each other?

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Yes and no.

Yes at the most absolute scientific level, it will take ever so slightly longer to cook 2 pizzas than 1.

No in the practical sense as the difference is entirely negligible.

You might have a point if you need to absolutely cram your oven with huge frozen casseroles in every available inch, but also, you simply wouldn’t do something like that lol

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