Dehydrated Potato (why boiled?)

Hello all,

I am confused as to why all the dehydrated potato recipes call for you to steam or boil them, particularly when you can easily bake potatoes.

If you must cook the potato first, fine. But why add water just before taking it out again?

Is their any reason why instead of boiling potatoes before mashing and drying, I should not just bake the potatoes before mashing and drying?

I feel you can dehydrate potatoes from any kind of cooked potato.

I would say to go for it. Just do it.

It's probably just because boiling is much faster than baking and doesn't need an oven. I agree with you that it will be faster to dehydrate after baking.