Where do you buy type 00 flour around here? I am in Cooking mode this week and would like to make some pasta.

Sur la Table or some other specialty store may have some. I buy mine online from King Arthur.

I've found imported "00" flour at La Cuisine in Old Town Alexandria.

I've seen it occasionally at Vace on Conn. Ave.

What is 00 flour? Or is it OO flour?

I saw some King Arthur flour on the shelf at the Giant on Duke St. in Alexandria. I do not know if it was 00 or OO variety.

It's 00 flour and is a softer and more refined durum wheat flour used for making pasta and also I've seen it used for pizza dough (but have never done that my self).

I looked on the King Arthur site and it is listed as Italian style flour. It has a higher protein % than normal flour. They also have Pure Durum FLour available. I think I will order it as I am too far out to make the trip Downtown for flour.

If that's what you want, then Antoine's Pasta Flour is sold just about everywhere.

I have used this and do not like it at all. The KA 'Italian Style' is very close to the authentic '00' flour. Depending on how much experience you have with making pasta, the dough made with this flour will be a bit softer than when using regular AP. And speaking of AP, it makes a damn good noodle, so knead away if you have that on hand.

Actually, the flour that King Arthur calls Italian-style, which they also call their American clone of 00, is a lower-protein flour, approximately 8.5%. King Arthur All-Purpose, by contrast, is 11.7 % protein. It's not made from durum wheat, but I don't know exactly what kind of wheat is used. It is excellent for pizza (all-purpose or, worse, "bread" flour make a tough pizza crust). It's also superb for fresh pasta, which comes out supple, elastic, tender, and luscious. It's also ideal for pastry, especially for an all-butter pie crust, which can be quite brittle and tough when made with all-purpose flour. This is, in fact, my favorite flour. I've never seen it in a store, unfortunately, so I have to pay for shipping from Vermont.

Unsure if the type 00 has been found, but Dean and Deluca in Georgetown has some as of yesterday.

I'm so glad I found this thread! I've been on a mission to find 00 flour since the cooking class at Maestro last Saturday. I'll try the place in Alexandria, with King Arthur as a backup.

Small, expensive bags of tipo 00 can also be had at Balducci's, although most of the bags on the shelf at the Old Georgetown Rd (Wildwood) location had burst.

There are also a number of places online that sell the Caputo brand recommended by Verace Pizza Napoletana, and some of them repackage into smaller-than-industrial quantities. The urge to order and split a 50 lb sack from PennMac is considerable, though...

Today I stopped at The Italian Store for lunch, and of course they have Tipo 00 flour, among other things. I now have 2 kilos.

I found this link, which seems to suggest that tipo 0 or 00 refers to the grind not the protein.

I was at the Dutch Country Market in Burtonsville yesterday and am pretty sure I saw some bags of "00" flour there, but I wasn't specifically looking so I'm not sure. But it's a good place to know about. For example, you can get several types of cream/butter there which are hard to find, fresh rabbits, etc. etc.