RaisaB Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I love fresh pasta also and when I make mine I use "tipo oo" flour. I love how light my pasta turns out. chef4cook Where do you buy type 00 flour around here? I am in Cooking mode this week and would like to make some pasta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdt Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 Where do you buy type 00 flour around here? I am in Cooking mode this week and would like to make some pasta. Sur la Table or some other specialty store may have some. I buy mine online from King Arthur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mktye Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I've found imported "00" flour at La Cuisine in Old Town Alexandria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. B Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I've seen it occasionally at Vace on Conn. Ave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillvalley Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 What is 00 flour? Or is it OO flour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Gastreaux Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 What is 00 flour? Or is it OO flour? I saw some King Arthur flour on the shelf at the Giant on Duke St. in Alexandria. I do not know if it was 00 or OO variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. B Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 What is 00 flour? Or is it OO flour? It's 00 flour and is a softer and more refined durum wheat flour used for making pasta and also I've seen it used for pizza dough (but have never done that my self). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaisaB Posted November 14, 2005 Author Share Posted November 14, 2005 I looked on the King Arthur site and it is listed as Italian style flour. It has a higher protein % than normal flour. They also have Pure Durum FLour available. I think I will order it as I am too far out to make the trip Downtown for flour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I looked on the King Arthur site and it is listed as Italian style flour. It has a higher protein % than normal flour. They also have Pure Durum FLour available. I think I will order it as I am too far out to make the trip Downtown for flour. If that's what you want, then Antoine's Pasta Flour is sold just about everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdt Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 If that's what you want, then Antoine's Pasta Flour is sold just about everywhere. I have used this and do not like it at all. The KA 'Italian Style' is very close to the authentic '00' flour. Depending on how much experience you have with making pasta, the dough made with this flour will be a bit softer than when using regular AP. And speaking of AP, it makes a damn good noodle, so knead away if you have that on hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 I looked on the King Arthur site and it is listed as Italian style flour. It has a higher protein % than normal flour. They also have Pure Durum FLour available. I think I will order it as I am too far out to make the trip Downtown for flour. Actually, the flour that King Arthur calls Italian-style, which they also call their American clone of 00, is a lower-protein flour, approximately 8.5%. King Arthur All-Purpose, by contrast, is 11.7 % protein. It's not made from durum wheat, but I don't know exactly what kind of wheat is used. It is excellent for pizza (all-purpose or, worse, "bread" flour make a tough pizza crust). It's also superb for fresh pasta, which comes out supple, elastic, tender, and luscious. It's also ideal for pastry, especially for an all-butter pie crust, which can be quite brittle and tough when made with all-purpose flour. This is, in fact, my favorite flour. I've never seen it in a store, unfortunately, so I have to pay for shipping from Vermont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Durum wheat is the "hardest" type of wheat; i.e., the flour derived from it has the highest proportion of gluten-forming proteins. (The word "durum" derives from a Latin word meaning "hard", the same root behind "durable" and "endure".) Semolina, which is milled from durum wheat, is the flour used in factory-made dried pasta, a very different product from fresh pasta. Most fresh pasta is made with softer flour (i.e., lower protein), although some people actually do use semolina to make fresh pasta. I've never tried doing this, and have no idea what the finished product would be like. I gather that dough made this way is difficult to work with. Unsure if the type 00 has been found, but Dean and Deluca in Georgetown has some as of yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotteeM Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I'm so glad I found this thread! I've been on a mission to find 00 flour since the cooking class at Maestro last Saturday. I'll try the place in Alexandria, with King Arthur as a backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol_ironstomach Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 I'm so glad I found this thread! I've been on a mission to find 00 flour since the cooking class at Maestro last Saturday. I'll try the place in Alexandria, with King Arthur as a backup. Small, expensive bags of tipo 00 can also be had at Balducci's, although most of the bags on the shelf at the Old Georgetown Rd (Wildwood) location had burst. There are also a number of places online that sell the Caputo brand recommended by Verace Pizza Napoletana, and some of them repackage into smaller-than-industrial quantities. The urge to order and split a 50 lb sack from PennMac is considerable, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotteeM Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Today I stopped at The Italian Store for lunch, and of course they have Tipo 00 flour, among other things. I now have 2 kilos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 So what is the Duram Wheat flour for? Isn't that supposedly better for pasta? Is Duram also a softer type of wheat? I found this link, which seems to suggest that tipo 0 or 00 refers to the grind not the protein. I was at the Dutch Country Market in Burtonsville yesterday and am pretty sure I saw some bags of "00" flour there, but I wasn't specifically looking so I'm not sure. But it's a good place to know about. For example, you can get several types of cream/butter there which are hard to find, fresh rabbits, etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Bump. Has anybody seen 00 Flour around recently? Whole Foods in Vienna was a bust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Bump. Has anybody seen 00 Flour around recently? Whole Foods in Vienna was a bust. I was about to say yes and then realized I saw it at the market in Ann Arbor, MI. Fail. Did you try The Italian Store? They had it last time I asked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banco Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Bump. Has anybody seen 00 Flour around recently? Whole Foods in Vienna was a bust. They have it at the corner market (I forget its name) at Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill, on the corner of 11th and East Capitol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoramargolis Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Balducci's. BlackSalt. Dean&Deluca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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