Making Pasta with All Purpose Flour… So you can absolutely use regular all purpose flour to make homemade pasta, and you probably won’t even taste the difference when it comes to most types of pasta, however here are some benefits and reasons I use extra fine ‘00’ flour over All Purpose… TEXTURE Lighter, silkier pasta - ‘00’ produces a much lighter & silkier pasta so it’s much better to use for pasta like tagliatelle that is rolled out super thin PLIABILITY Much easier to knead into a smooth dou