Breakdown of Με το να διπλώνουμε τη ζύμη, βελτιώνουμε την ελαστικότητα.
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Με το να is a common Greek way to express by doing something, through doing something, or by the act of doing something.
So:
Με το να διπλώνουμε τη ζύμη, βελτιώνουμε την ελαστικότητα.
means something like:
By folding the dough, we improve its elasticity.
Literally, με usually means with, but in this construction the whole phrase με το να + verb functions adverbially and explains how something happens.
Because με το να is a fixed grammatical pattern.
The το is a neuter singular article, but here you should think of the whole expression as one unit:
με το να + finite verb
It is not built the same way English uses a gerund like by folding. Since Modern Greek does not generally use an infinitive the way English does, it often needs a different structure to express that idea. Με το να is one of those solutions.
So learners usually do best by memorizing it as a set phrase meaning:
by doing...