Caputo Antimo Di Grano Duro Rimacinata Semolina Flour - All Natural Dough for Fresh Pasta, 2.2 lb

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Bakers in the USA looking to use durum wheat flour for bread or pasta are somewhat limited in their choices. I have compared Bob's Red Mill Semolina Pasta flour and Golden Temple Atta flour (both made from Canadian durum wheat I believe)to Caputo Rimacinata. By the way,"rimacinata" simply means, "re-milled" and indicates that the hard, granular semolina has been milled to a much finer consistency for use in pasta and baked products. I mixed 10 g. of each flour with 7 g. of water for a 70% hydration, a level I often use in my hearth breads. Bob's is a high quality product. Refined durum, pure endosperm, milled a little finer than ordinary semolina but still fairly granular. It has a nice yellow color. At 70% hydration it's quite sticky, almost unworkable. It needs less water or the admixture of bread or all purpose flour. Pasta made with it has a noticeably rough texture, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Golden Temple Atta flour is a whole wheat durum flour, milled a bit finer than Bob's, and is slightly grey in color compared to a more refined durum flour. At 70% hydration, it's not quite as slack and sticky as Bob's, but still hard to work with. It's intended primarily for certain types of Indian breads such as chapati, but works well in leavened breads but lacks strength and so is best combined with bread flour. Caputo Rimacinata is, like most Italian flours, milled to a much finer consistency than either of these two domestic flours. It has a pale golden color and absorbs more water. At 70% hydration, it produces a beautiful, smooth dough, easy to knead and with a nice balance of extensibility and elasticity. It's what is used to make authentic Altamura bread in Puglia. Its fine texture and extensibility make it indispensable for certain homemade pastas such as orecchiette and cavatelli. Nothing else works quite as well. As for bread, if it were less expensive and I could buy it at the supermarket, I might use nothing else. It's that good. But for now, I'll confine myself to using it for pasta. I recommend you buy a kilo and try it.

This is the best semolina I've used so far. It is really thin and has wonderful taste.

Worked great for my pasta, it’s been a long time since I’ve made it. This worked out super! A bit spendy for flour but was worth it.

the quality of flour is great but bag was ooen and abot to expire. I closed with tape

Makes THE best homemade pasta. The super fine milled flour is easy to work with by simply adding water. Comes out perfect every time.

This is a nice quality semolina

I purchased both the double 00 semola flour (Caputo Brand, highly rated for the pasta making) recently. I have just posted a separate post about the double 00 flour that came with some worms in the bag of the flour (white, very small, about 1/4 of an inch or smaller in length and it was moving) and this Semola bag shocked me when I opened it that it had brown bugs crawling. There were two on the top when I opened. I don't know how many are in the whole bag so I am going to have to throw the whole things away but I don't know, if this is common in Italian flour? I have them in zip lock bugs on my counter, now that I know both bags appear to have live things crawling. I am throwing them away but the company does not offer any returns or refunds. I do have a video of the brown things crawling in the Semola Bag but I would withhold the video unless the seller wants to see it. I was SOOOO excited about getting serious with the pasta making and I enjoyed it wit just the King Arthur brand all purpose flour last week. If trying to get Italian flour that is not dressed with little bugs is difficult, I may just not try that again. I would love to hear from others who purchased this brand of flour. I am hoping that this is not a common thing. But It is odd that my purchase (Semola and double 00 both ended up with live creatures).