Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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...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|
>
>
> 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.

Agreed in all Dave. Fact is though, many here gather because we 'wanna
play' and we do that with something new. It's fun to discuss and while
I won't make Pasta often, it is simply fun to do now and again!

Yes, I get almost all of mine at the store. Maybe once a year I make
some fresh because it's fun.

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