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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Generally it is based on the positioning of the heating elements. For instance: many ovens have the heating element at the very bottom, which is why they say to put frozen pizza on the “middle rack”. While the enclosed space will make the interior MOSTLY the same temperature, there are still fluctuations based on the material being cooked as well as smaller things like how well heat stays inside.

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Generally it is based on the positioning of the heating elements. For instance: many ovens have the heating element at the very bottom, which is why they say to put frozen pizza on the “middle rack”. While the enclosed space will make the interior MOSTLY the same temperature, there are still fluctuations based on the material being cooked as well as smaller things like how well heat stays inside.