No, not like a ham with salts. Sling curing involves a massive round object and a gravitational field that approaches 1 G. Luckily we live on a planet with such a field and massive round objects abound. However for the simple reason that all of my earthly possessions were scattered and stuffed into ten large bags due to a move, I couldn't find a single ball of any kind. In these cases one finds truly that duct tape applications have no bounds. Thank you Scotch Tape