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Soaking dried beans overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time.
However, cooking without presoaking yields plumper beans.
Therefore, when a bean dish's quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be presoaked.
The argument assumes that plumper beans enhance the quality of the dish.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
Plumper beans enhance the quality
Why this is right
This bridges the gap between plumper beans and a higher quality dish.
Skill tested: Necessary Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
92% picked this
There are no dishes whose
The only dishes that are important for this argument are bean dishes.
3% picked this
A dish's appearance is as
This fails to connect appearance and taste with the quality of a dish.
1% picked this
None of the other ingredients
Other ingredients are not relevant to the argument.
1% picked this
The plumper the bean, the
This fail to connect better taste with higher quality.
3% picked this
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