I am more against the yeast dispenser technologically than for. For dry yeast, at least most, manufacturers avoid direct contact with air in every possible way. Sealed in vacuum, put in protective shells. There is no single recommendation to keep dry yeast outside of flour outdoors. Then, cold is used to slow down the yeast.
The yeast dispenser violates theoretical assumptions completely. It allows the yeast to stay warm for a long time with air contact. Suppose air contact occurs in a confined space and perhaps the harm is minimal, and the less the less the stitching. But in theory, it is contact with air that sharply reduces the lifting force of dry yeast and kills some of them, which also negatively affects the taste of the dough.
Anyway, adding flour without a dispenser is much more in line with theoretical standards.
It seems to me that the manufacturer was lying. After the introduction of the dispenser, the types of yeast that are most suitable for laying in the air in the dispenser should be indicated.
About workouts.
The number of strokes directly depends on the strength of the flour.
In theory, how the test develops is rough, of course.
First, on contact with water, the dry proteins of the flour swell. If you soak the dough at this point, it will still completely dissolve, but it looks like it is already a sticky, tied mess.
After a while, the dry proteins of the flour miraculously turn into a dense rubber net. If at this stage the dough is dissolved in water, then it will no longer dissolve, but this viscous grid - gluten will be washed out of it.
At this stage she is there like a ball thick rubber threads, all tangled. And the threads in it are of two types. Some are more elastic, others are more stringy.
We begin to knead the dough. And this tangle unravels, the threads stretch and become thinner, and a spatial 3D structure emerges from strong, but thin, flexible and stretchable threads, a spatial mesh - a skeleton, a frame on which bread is held. The skeleton is gluten free. The meat is swollen starch.
If the primary ball consists of thick threads, then the developed framework is already stretched, thin threads.
So thick gluten is tough bread, the tenderness of the crust of bread is delicate stretched thin threads of gluten. This is why unmixed bread is rough and tough. Than stronger and stronger gluten in flour, so more it is necessary to expend energy to turn it into a delicate thin 3D frame from the tastelessly stiff thick threads in a ball.
In this case, when kneading, you can not get a frame, but tear it in figs, if it is too weak, but knead it hard. How much to stretch a weak elastic band - it will break.
And when you tear it .. there is no skeleton, fragments of thick pieces of gluten are obtained in bread, that is, the taste suffers.
Hence the choice intensity kneading. The weaker the flour, the more you need carefully knead to develop, not tear.
Therefore, in programs with whole grain flour, which is weak compared to normal flour, the intensity of the paddle movement will be less.
But with the number of strokes it is more difficult. Their number depends on the method of the test.
It's actually more complicated here.
Try not to get confused here.
Option 1. You have kneaded flour. The Slegonets were kneaded. Further, the yeast ferments, emitting gases, and the gases continue to stretch strongly - that is, knead the gluten. If not crushed, then these gases will tear the gluten.
And we need the yeast to ferment, that is, stretch the gluten for, for example, 4 hours (so that useful substances from the bacteria working in parallel can accumulate in the dough), but during this time the gases from the yeast do not stretch and break it to the utmost. That is, we need to make sure that all these 4 hours the yeast does not break the gluten. So we knead the dough from time to time. To release the excess gas that is stretching the gluten, well, and again give breathing air to the yeast.
There are two approaches to workouts.
First. Previously, they did it manually.
For example, the dough was originally kneaded. We left him to rise right up to the stop, until it begins to deflate. This means that the yeast has stretched our frame rubber all the way. Can't stand it anymore. It is necessary to crumple, otherwise it will break.
If the gluten is weak, then it will not withstand such extreme stretch marks more than once. Therefore, such a dough was kneaded once and then left to rise by half right before baking.
It was necessary to pick up such an amount of yeast so that they would not quickly pull it on us. Because as soon as the gluten tightened, the ballet was over. I had to crumple and go out to bake.
If gluten is strong, then it could withstand such extreme stretch marks with yeast already two or three times.
But there is another approach, this one is used in HP, when, in principle, with reinsurance, we do not allow the yeast to give the strongest gluten tension. We will simply crush the dough for every fireman 2-3 times during its preparation. As you can imagine, this approach prevents gluten from maximizing the rise of yeast.
This is how the car body work works. They are simply provided after a certain time. And this approach prevents gluten from total stretching with a break.
At the same time, you understand that, for example, kneading 3 times in 4 hours of fermentation is better than 2 times in the same 4 hours. Because if you transfer a lot of yeast and they give a lot of gas, then 3 times they will definitely save gluten, and in 2 the yeast can have time to break it.
But then why don't we knead the dough 5 times? yes, because oxygen access to the dough is undesirable for other chemical reasons.
Too much oxygen impairs the taste. Therefore, as always, a balance is needed between kneading and oxygen access.
However ... the more we knead the dough, the better our yeast breathes. That is, they roam more actively, give more loosening.
But on the other hand, yes, the weaker the yeast, the more it is necessary to support them with nutrition.
Therefore, your idea Natasha, that the dispenser and the increased number of wrinkles are connected - right to the root.
They weakened with a dispenser, and fed them with strokes.
But .. if you approach it theoretically, then it is better not to use a dispenser, but to take a smaller amount of yeast and put it in flour. Then good strokes will allow you to get the same result with less yeast than a machine with 2 strokes.
And with the same amount of yeast, the bread should be fluffier. Because yeast with three strokes breathes better and gives more loosening.