two big thumbs down on the heb kosher salt. I'm loyal to morton's, but last three attempts I've made to buy some my heb is suspiciously out of stock. when I first brought the heb branded kosher salt home as a sustitute I did a double take when filling my salt pig, because it looked too "pretty." I'm used to seeing my kosher salt opaque, feeling coarse, and having rectangularish grains; here I was seeing a few sparkling clear specks, some was sticking to the rim of my salt pig, and there were grains definitely cubic. shit, maybe exotic salt got into my box from a not properly cleaned packing line at the processing plant. then, I tried salting some simmering water and saw some clear grains falling to the bottom of my pot. since I'm lazy I threw the lid back on and waited for the water to fully boil. I added morton's to my next instacart, but I dropped it completely when the shopper tried to substitute it with heb brand when she was filling my order. this weekend I watched the same shit happen to simmering water, I decided to throw the rest of it out. fuck that. morton's makes the water cloudy for a second after it hits the water then it clears back up, but no grains ever sink intact to the bottom of a simmering pot. went to my heb determined to come home with the good stuff, but they are still cleared out of morton's kosher salt. is there a run on salt that I'm not aware of? now I'm stuck having to use table salt harvested out of picnic paks from a leftover emergency stash from hurricane ike.
tl;dr: heb kosher salt sucks. it is inferior in every way, do not buy. heb I am disappoint.