On 2017-10-25 10:51 AM, notbob wrote:
> I picked up one of those Imperia pasta making machines, cheap, at a
> garage sale. Making the dough doesn't seem too hard. Couple cups o'
> '00' flour and a couple eggs. But wait! ....WTF is '00' flour and
> where do I find it!?
>
> Yes, I've looked it up online, but all I find is a buncha ads fer
> outrageously priced flour:
>
> <https://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/items/king-arthur-italian-style-flour-3-lb>
>
> So, can I use anything else? I can get all kindsa flours, but none of
> my local HFS's had any '00' flour. 8|


I have made pasta with all purpose flour and it was fine. My Italian
neighbour makes pasta with all purpose.

I bought my pasta maker on impulse. I should have just checked out
garage sales because they are probably like waffle irons and bread
makers, the sorts of things that get used once or twice, if at all, and
then sold to clear out storage space.

Fresh made pasta is delicious, but by the time you use enough flour and
salt to make a batch you have spent about half as much as it costs to
buy fresh pasta, and then there is all the work involved in making it,
stirring, kneading it, rolling over and over and over. Store bought
pasta is a bargain.