Caputo Tipo 00 Flour in the UK

[Modthyrth]

Re: Caputo Tipo 00 Flour in the UK

I looked everywhere for San Marzano tommys. Went to local Delis and specialist food shops. Couldn't find them anywhere. Finally found them in Tescos of all places. It is in the "Finest" range next to all the other tinned tomatoes. It has the label of authenticity on them.


Beninio

Oooh, this is a useful tip for me, too. Tesco just broke into the American market late last year, with their "Fresh and Easy" brand. They're everywhere now--I can think of 3 within a 5 mile radius. I'll check it out this week, thanks!

[mmmhumous]

Re: Caputo Tipo 00 Flour in the UK

Hey Guys, just got the latest NifeisLife newsletter. Promotional Code: FREE45 gives you free standard delivery for upto 15Kg of goods and a free gift, so my first order of:

25kg of caputo 00 (?16)
600g cheese (?7.50)
Free Gift

Came to ?27.06

Look forward to trying it out over the weekend!!

[mmmhumous]

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Had a look in all of my local (south Manchester and Cheshire) Sainsbury, Tesco, M&S and Waitrose Stores (and online stores). Only San Marzanos I've found were fresh Tesco's Finest ones.

[RyH]

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I got them from Sainbury's in a tin in their taste the difference range. Ask the store or department manager at Sainsbury's to get some in for you, they stock them in other stores and are part of the Sainsbury's own range so should not be a problem.

Can you let me know how you get on with the cheese from Nifeislife

Good luck with the toms

Ry

[mmmhumous]

Re: Caputo Tipo 00 Flour in the UK

I got them from Sainbury's in a tin in their taste the difference range. Ask the store or department manager at Sainsbury's to get some in for you, they stock them in other stores and are part of the Sainsbury's own range so should not be a problem.

Can you let me know how you get on with the cheese from Nifeislife

Good luck with the toms

Ry

Will do, I'll give tesco's a go too.

Cheese is pretty good. I ordered the Gorgonzola from Piedmont and the smoked and normal Scamorzine.

The scamorzine was interesting (somewhere between mozerella and hulumi in taste and texture) and is great on pizza. The gorgonzola was very good (very ripe).

[mmmhumous]

Re: Caputo Tipo 00 Flour in the UK

Tried the Caputo out at the weekend. (split the rest of the flour into ~1Kg batches in freezer bags).

Used my standard method and recipe (below) and the results were great! the dough is far more workable and elastic than the standard (MacDougal's) 00 flour and has a slightly better flavour.

Recipe:

500g Flour
3g dried yeast
325ml water (caputo didn't need the whole 325ml)
2 teaspoons marmite*

*I use the Forno Bravo quantites that James posted somewhere on the forum, but swap the 20g of salt for two teaspoons of marmite. (got the idea from the Heston Blumenthal recipe which uses malt syrup).

Method:

-Mixed using dough hooks for 10-15mins.
-Left to proove for 40mins.
-Split into 5 balls,
-Left to prove for 30mins.

[RyH]

Re: Caputo Tipo 00 Flour in the UK

Glad you like the Caputo, it does make a difference.

The marmite sounds interesting, can you pick it up in the dough taste wise at all?

Ry

[james]

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I still think it's remarkable how much of a difference something as simple as the pizza flour can make. If you had told me five years ago (before I really got into ovens, bread and pizza) that you could seriously improve your pizza just by changing the flour -- I'm not sure I would have believed you. :-)

We're a Marmite family -- we have to try that. Thanks for the tip.
James

[jammyweb]

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It is that time of year again to start looking for flour in the UK

Just checked the nifeislife site and currently out of stock of the 25KG bags

What's the current wisdom on uk sources for flour ?

James

[beatsalma]

Hi Ryh,

I bought mine from Vorrei Caputo '00' Pizza Flour, based in Saffron Walden, UK. They deliver UK wide.

I really enjoyed making real Italian pizza at my home, It's easy and dough quality is best.

[UtahBeehiver]

Beatsalma,

Thanks for responding but this thread is quite old, over 6 years. You can see the date of the late post at the top left of the post.