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High hydration focaccia, cheap mixer and little proofing

Seasoned Advice Asked by David P on December 25, 2020

I decided to push to the limit my "modest" stand mixer and make a 100% hydration focaccia.
Baker’s percents:
Manitoba flour 100%
Water 100%
instant dry Yeast 0.5%
salt 3%
olive oil 3.5%

Procedure in this video with Italian comments, but basically work flour with 3/4 of the water and then add the remaning water in several steps.

The manitoba flour I used is this one.

Then the dough is supposed to be folded some times on the counter and then ferment in the fridge for 24h.

After that, proof at room temp until doubled, then spread on a baking tray, wait a bit and bake.

I have made two attempts in the last two months. Same flour and same machine that rotates the hook along a conic axis instead of cylindrical. So not really ideal and it tends to spread the dough to the wall instead of on the hook itself.

The first attempt doubled in volume with respect to the mark in about 4h in my oven turned off with light on after a while. It was October, let’s say 22C (no light) and 30C with light.

The second attempt didn’t raise at all in 5h at similar temperatures. But the spreading in the tray was ok and the final product did turn up with some bubbles.
Unfortunately the first attempt was spread differently so doesn’t really make sense to compare those.

Question is: can "overworking" inhibit the proofing somehow? I mean that the gluten net is so strong that the expansion just can’t happen.

Pictures from first attempt:

doubling in volume and cheap machine in question in the background
bubbles after 4h at room temp
spreading in a dish with wall smaller than planned as I thought the dough was not enough
final product

Second attempt:

Little or no increment of volume
spreading as large as possible with no walls and topping
final product 1
section in correspondence to the bigger bubbles

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