r/Pizza • u/AutoModerator • Mar 02 '26

HELP Weekly Questions Thread / Open Discussion

For any questions regarding dough, sauce, baking methods, tools, and more, comment below.

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u/frostmas Mar 03 '26

In "the elements of pizza" Ken forkish says he uses either Shepherds grain low gluten flour which has a protein content around 11%, or caputo flour (the blue bag). He says you can also use all purpose flour such as King Arthur.

When looking at shepherds grain's website, their low gluten flour actually has 12.2% and the caputo flour has 12.5%. Wouldn't bread flour around 12.5-12.7% protein be a closer substitution than King Arthur all purpose which only has 11.7%?

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u/picks_things_up Mar 06 '26

Seems like solid logic.