Question: are baking and roasting the same thing?
Answer: Both roasting and baking involve cooking by dry heat. Both are often done in ovens but can be accomplished by less sophisticated means too. ... In some ovens the "roast" setting does exactly the same thing as the "bake" setting: 325˚ on roast is indistinguishable from 325˚ on bake, (hence your imagined experience above).