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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In the microwave, yes, twice as much requires twice the time because the energy induced by the mw is distributed between two pizzas instead of one.

In an oven, no longer, because the oven keeps the temperature the same, eg, 400 degrees all the time.

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