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The Best Flour in the World for Making Pizza
Season 1 · Episode 182

The Best Flour in the World for Making Pizza

The Culinary Institute of America

July 30, 20222m 31s

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Show Notes

As you’ve heard many times now, great ingredients are a “must” for great pizza. So let’s search for the ideal flour. At Caputo, the last remaining grain mill in Naples, the third-generation owners specialize in blending wheat varieties to create flours with precise characteristics. For a pizzaiolo, obtaining flour with the desired elasticity and strength is critical. You’ll hear later from some pizzaiolos about the efforts they make to get the flour they want. But first let’s take a look inside Caputo’s modern laboratory. Here flour experts try to please pizza professionals, some of the most demanding flour customers in the world.

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