Does anyone know where i can purchase oo flour( double zero) for making pizza and pasta? king arthur sells a version but their shipping charges are to high. thanks bob
Use Google and use "00 flour" in search box with the quotes. Do not use oo flour like you used in your subject. Then click on shopping at top of page
Any Italian supermarket should supply this flour. There are a variety of makes. Look for the one that is specific for pizza. It's not expensive at all.
Here is a link you can buy the oo Flour at if you are interested. http://markethallfoods.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_mh_info&cPath=10&products_id=649&gclid=CPiUqIKp85oCFQEuxwodWi2fcw
I hope this link works for you. I found it using Google Search.
Thanks.
Italian 00 flour is essentially equivalent to an American unbleached all purpose flour with respect to the characteristics that define flour at a very basic level (moisture, ash, and protein).
"High Gluten" flour may be too high in protein (13.8%) for many home bakers and it is not readily available in most grocery stores. Unbleached "Bread Flour" is a little lower on the protein scale than High Gluten and would impart a little more toughness to the dough than the unbleached All Purpose.
Many Europeans describe their flour as being from soft wheat - but the characteristics of their soft wheat is typically what we would describe as Hard Red Winter Wheat (HRW) or Hard White Wheat (HWW). American Soft Red (or white in say areas of Michigan, Ohio, and PAcific Northwest) Wheat flour is lower in protein (say 7.5 -9.5 %) and used by commercial bakers for cookie/cracker/cake applications where tenderness is highly desirable in the finished bakery product. Hence our soft wheat flour would be inappropriate for pizza doughs/crusts as we typically think of them.
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