The Buyer’s Guide to 00 Flour (2024)

Best 00 flour for pasta

00 flour, or doppio zero is what most Italian households use to make fresh egg pasta. The white Italian flour is finely-milled, resulting in grains which are finer than semolina, but larger than cornflour. Mix with eggs for fresh pasta and water for pizza doughs.

Best organic 00 flour

Use Mulino Marino organic 00 flour to make the finest fresh pasta, ciabatta and pizza dough. Mulino Marino select the finest organic grains, nuts and pulses and mill them to the perfect texture using their carefully researched traditional techniques.

Best 00 flour for pizza dough

Dalla Giovanna’s ‘00’ pizza flour is a fine-milled Italian flour, ideal for making Naples-style pizza bases. The flour has been specifically designed to make elastic pizza dough, which absorbs water well when kneaded.

Best 00 flour for Neapolitan pizzas

Caputo pizzeria flour is a soft wheat flour with strong gluten quality - great for making pizza doughs that require a long fermentation. This ‘00’ flour helps dough to get a great hydration and good elasticity - use it to make traditional Neapolitan pizzas with a light, bubbly crust.

Best 00 flour for patisserie

Granoro’s farina ‘00’ dolci flour is ideal for light sponges, shortbreads and tart cases. The finely milled flour comes from the innermost part of the wheat kernel, for a fine white flour. This flour is interchangeable with French type 45 and American pastry flour.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are bread flour and 00 flour the same?

The difference between bread flour and 00 flour is the protein content, and therefore the gluten levels. Strong bread flours tend to have higher levels of gluten compared to 00 flour. 00 flour is also less absorbent than bread flour, meaning less water is required when using 00 flour.

Italian mills will usually sell flour based on what its purpose is for. For long fermented doughs such as panettone the flour will be ‘00’ but with a stronger gluten content than the ‘00’ flour they’ll sell for pizza or pasta making. An all-purpose flour can also be ‘00’.

For making pizza doughs and Italian breads, you can use a strong white flour in place of 00 flour, however the amount of liquid in the recipe will need to be adjusted to take into account the gluten levels.

What flour can I use instead of 00 flour?

Italian 00 flour is the same as German type 405, French type 45 and American pastry flour. If you can’t use 00 flour, use one of the above three flours instead for baking and patisserie work. If you’re making focaccia and pizza doughs you can also use strong white bread flour.

Which 00 flour is best for pizza?

We love Caputo Pizzeria flour, and Dalla Giovanna 00 pizza flour for their soft texture and fuller flavour. Caputo Pizzeria flour is also the number one choice for Pizza Pilgrims:

“We specifically use Caputo Pizzeria Flour. We've made the pilgrimage many times to the Caputo mill to see their flour being made and to marvel at how much intricacy and research goes into sourcing and producing what is some of the best flour in the world. They achieve their own balance, constantly adjusting mixes of grains and reacting to fluctuating weather patterns and growth conditions.” - Tom Mullins, First Chef at Pizza Pilgrims

But any 00 flour or strong white flour will work well when making the dough for pizza bases.

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