@StevePeel @nefarious @chrisbmx116 and @Saffronspokes thank you all! This is exactly the help/advice I was hoping for. Going to take on all the above and give it a shot, hopefully from the three balls of dough something delicious shall result. I think my weakest spot right now is likely to be the dough, I didn't get the 3x growth yeasty reaction the recipe suggested, maybe x2 and nowhere near as bubbly as the pic I was working from, but the dough feels OK now and I'm reasonable confident something edible will result. Pics to follow...
Oh worth noting, its actually gravity that does most the stretching, or the weight of the dough itself, you don't really pull it bigger.
I tend to gravity stretch it in the air, others do it over the side of a counter (really messy) or for self eight stretching the classic slap technique.
@StevePeel @nefarious @chrisbmx116 and @Saffronspokes thank you all! This is exactly the help/advice I was hoping for. Going to take on all the above and give it a shot, hopefully from the three balls of dough something delicious shall result. I think my weakest spot right now is likely to be the dough, I didn't get the 3x growth yeasty reaction the recipe suggested, maybe x2 and nowhere near as bubbly as the pic I was working from, but the dough feels OK now and I'm reasonable confident something edible will result. Pics to follow...