The Italian whole-wheat flour, from famed Antimo Caputo is available from BrickOvenBaker.com. We were told it was no longer being imported, but it is!
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Antimo Caputo 00 “Extra” (Some people refer to as the “Extra Blue” or “Extra Blu”, but please don’t confuse this with the Pizzeria flour which is known as the “Blue”. The “Extra” flour comes in bag which is a lighter blue color. Caputo “Extra” is a flour produced with a low extraction rate, which means [...]
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This is a new combo item: The Caputo 00 Pizzeria flour, in a 9-lb repack and 3 cans of Napoli San Marzano D.O.P. tomatoes in 28-oz cans is a great place to start if you’re just starting out, and it also makes a great gift for the pizza maker. That same 00 Pizzeria flour is [...]
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Antimo Caputo’s Reground Durum Semolina Flour. It is hard durum wheat, milled using slow grinding which avoids excessive heat that might damage the proteins and starches in the wheat. This is a similar process that is used on the 00 Flours such as the Pizzeria, Rinforzato, Chef’s and Pasta & Gnocchi flours. Through regrinding, it [...]
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Molino Caputo, the mill in Naples that produces all of the Caputo flours, has been around for three generations according to Antimo Caputo: “…for all the artisans who make a high quality product to promote the concept of the idea of a pizza napoletana and the neapolitan product in the market in the US… There [...]
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A report from recent customer, and brick oven baker, Kenny Hill who sells wood-fired ovens: Everything has arrived, just fine. I made some bread and a cake for my daughters birthday. The bread was out of this world. I have baked a lot of bread, but never tasted anything like this. The cake was also [...]
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A customer asks: I’m confused. Is the “The Chef’s Flour” farina di grano tenero tipo 00 the best flour to use for bread and pasta? I know about Caputo Pizzeria, but what do you recommend for Italian bread and pastas? Should I use this one or another. What is the gluten/protein content of these flours. [...]
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While talking about our cheesy government this morning, Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) brought up his dislike of the trend of putting too much cheese on pizza, saying “If I wanted cheese toast, I’d order cheese toast.” He quotes somebody else suggesting that, “You can get by with ordinary cheese; you can give people that pillow-soft puffed-up [...]
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More bad news on the wheat market: “Two days of unrest in Maputo, Mozambique, left seven people dead and 288 injured after the government decided to raise bread prices by 30%. Wheat prices rose further on Friday in the wake of Russia’s decision to extend its grain export ban by 12 months, raising fears about [...]
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The price of wheat has jumped by about 75%, since early July, which is the highest level in two years, according to reports. What’s behind the price surge? Severe droughts in Russia have led to a crisis in the production of wheat there, leading to a recent ban on exports of a number of grains [...]
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