U.S. Janet B. wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 25 Oct 2017 14:51:50 GMT, 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...r-italian-styl
> > e-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|
> >
> > nb
>
> As far as I know, King Arthur is the only place to get 00 flour --
> it's the flour used to make baguettes, etc. in Italy. It's a soft
> flour, but not the same as using pastry flour. It isn't the same as
> semolina flour. Find a recipe that uses semolina flour (readily
> available in my city in the bulk area, maybe in yours as well?
> Semolina flour will make all the pasta types you are used to. Don't
> listen to anything that Cshenk says because she is still having a hard
> time grasping that there is a difference between All Purpose flour and
> Bread Flour.
> You're right, the price for 00 is expensive.
> Janet US

Love you to Janet US. You seem to have a hard time grasping that the
higher gluten flours we call 'bread flour' are a relatively modern
convention and our distant ancestors used other versions like Spelt,
Einkorn and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour#Plain_flour

Bit of info if you forgot that AP can also be used for bread.

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