How do home ovens have hotter or colder zones inside, requiring you to rotate the pan or whatever is cooking. Wouldn’t a small enclosed space have a consistent temperature throughout? And bonus follow up, what sort of degree variation can there be?

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How do home ovens have hotter or colder zones inside, requiring you to rotate the pan or whatever is cooking. Wouldn’t a small enclosed space have a consistent temperature throughout? And bonus follow up, what sort of degree variation can there be?

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To add, yes metal walls heating up and all that but also:

Ovens don’t get up to temp and then stay there, it works like this

Oven goes 100% until temp is reached then turns off, oven cools to what ever the lower tolerance then turns back on at full until temp is reached again, over and over heating and cooling